Does the vorticity flux from Agulhas rings control the zonal pathway of NADW across the South Atlantic?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Van Sebille, Erik ^a,b   Johns, William E ^a   Beal, Lisa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC BASIN; DEEP WATER; DEEP WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; DENSITY FIELDS; GLOBAL THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; LAGRANGIAN FLOATS; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; OCEAN MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SOUTH ATLANTIC; STREAMFUNCTIONS; VORTICITY FLUX;

VORTICITY;

DENSITY FRONT; EDDY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; VELOCITY PROFILE; VORTICITY; WATER FLOW; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC COAST [AFRICA]; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); CAPE BASIN;

EID: 84861676235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007684     Document Type: Article

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