Mesoscale perturbations control inter-ocean exchange south of Africa

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Biastoch, A ^a   Lutjeharms, J R E ^b   Boning C W ^a   Scheinert, M ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAKAGE (FLUID);

AGULHAS SYSTEMS; ATLANTIC OCEANS; DRIFT PATHS; GLOBAL THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE VARIABILITIES; MOZAMBIQUE; REALISTIC REPRESENTATIONS; RESOLUTION MODELS; SALIENT FEATURES; SENSITIVITY EXPERIMENTS; SOUTH ATLANTIC;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

CIRCULATION MODELING; MESOSCALE EDDY; PERTURBATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 58249088897     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035132     Document Type: Article

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