Madagascar: A pacemaker for the Agulhas Current system?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

  Penven, P ^a,b   Lutjeharms, J R E ^a   Florenchie, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGIC MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND EFFECTS;

CROSS-BASIN INTEGRATION; INTER-OCEAN EXCHANGE; SUBTROPICAL BASINS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

GEOPHYSICS;

BASIN; BOUNDARY CURRENT; CURRENT VELOCITY; EDDY; EQUATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SUBTROPICAL REGION; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; WIND STRESS;

AGULHAS CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR; MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL;

EID: 33845613964     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026854     Document Type: Article

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