Millennial-scale Agulhas Current variability and its implications for salt-leakage through the Indian-Atlantic Ocean Gateway

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 383, Issue , 2013, Pages 101-112

  Simon, Margit H ^a   Arthur, Kristina L ^b   Hall, Ian R ^a   Peeters, Frank J C ^b   Loveday, Benjamin R ^c   Barker, Stephen ^a   Ziegler, Martin ^a,d   Zahn, Rainer ^e,f  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^f INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agulhas Current; Agulhas leakage; Millennial scale; Southern Hemisphere westerlies; Southwest Indian Ocean sub gyre

Indexed keywords

AGULHAS CURRENT; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; GLACIAL TERMINATIONS; INDIAN OCEAN; MILLENNIAL-SCALE; NUMERICAL MODEL SIMULATIONS; PLANKTIC FORAMINIFERA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

NAVIGATION; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

HYDROLOGY;

GYRE; HYDROGRAPHY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; UPPER OCEAN; WESTERLY;

AGULHAS CURRENT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTH AFRICA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84885693063     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.09.035     Document Type: Article

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