Marine heatwaves (MHWs) can cause devastating impacts to marine life. Despite the
serious consequences of MHWs, our understanding of their drivers is largely based on …

The near-coastal South East Atlantic Ocean off Africa is a unique and highly dynamic
environment, comprising the cool Benguela Current, warm Angola Current and warm …

The past decade has seen considerable progress toward clarifying the mean circulation of
the World's oceans. At the same time we have come to realize that the specification of a …

The Benguela is one of four major eastern boundary current regions of the World Ocean.
The oceanography off the west coast of southern Africa is dominated, like the regions off …

The causes of speciation in the sea are rarely obvious, because geographical barriers are
not conspicuous and dispersal abilities or marine organisms, particularly those of species …

A conductivity‐temperature‐depth and tracer chemistry section in the southeast South
Atlantic in December 1989 and January 1990 presents strong evidence that there is a …

Interocean exchange of heat and salt around South Africa is thought to be a key link in the
maintenance of the global overturning circulation of the ocean. It takes place at the Agulhas …

Previous work has indicated the importance of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in
the Southwest Indian Ocean for rainfall variability over South Africa. Here, these links are …

Until recently, relatively little was known of the exact nature of climatic change in southern
Africa over the past two millennia. New research based on oxygen isotope analyses of cave …

Piston core (PS2487-6), recovered south of Cape Town, and sediment surface samples,
recovered in the area of the Agulhas Current retroflection, were used to construct …