Stability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review and synthesis

W Weijer, W Cheng, SS Drijfhout… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The notion that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) can have more than
one stable equilibrium emerged in the 1980s as a powerful hypothesis to explain rapid …

Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: Observed transport and variability

E Frajka-Williams, IJ Ansorge, J Baehr… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) extends from the Southern Ocean to
the northern North Atlantic, transporting heat northwards throughout the South and North …

The missing ocean plastic sink: gone with the rivers

L Weiss, W Ludwig, S Heussner, M Canals… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Plastic floating at the ocean surface, estimated at tens to hundreds of thousands of metric
tons, represents only a small fraction of the estimated several million metric tons annually …

On the role of the Agulhas system in ocean circulation and climate

LM Beal, WPM De Ruijter, A Biastoch, R Zahn - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Abstract The Atlantic Ocean receives warm, saline water from the Indo-Pacific Ocean
through Agulhas leakage around the southern tip of Africa. Recent findings suggest that …

RAMA: The Research Moored Array for African–Asian–Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction *

MJ Mcphaden, G Meyers, K Ando… - Bulletin of the …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Indian Ocean is unique among the three tropical ocean basins in that it is blocked at 25°
N by the Asian landmass. Seasonal heating and cooling of the land sets the stage for …

[КНИГА][B] The Agulhas current retroflection

JRE Lutjeharms - 2006 - Springer
The southern termination of the Agulhas Current is unique for a western boundary current in
this respect that it takes place at the meridional extremity of the adjacent continent. This is …

[HTML][HTML] The submesoscale kinetic energy cascade: Mesoscale absorption of submesoscale mixed layer eddies and frontal downscale fluxes

R Schubert, J Gula, RJ Greatbatch… - Journal of Physical …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Mesoscale eddies can be strengthened by the absorption of submesoscale eddies resulting
from mixed layer baroclinic instabilities. This is shown for mesoscale eddies in the Agulhas …

Marine biodiversity in South Africa: an evaluation of current states of knowledge

CL Griffiths, TB Robinson, L Lange, A Mead - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Continental South Africa has a coastline of some 3,650 km and an Exclusive Economic Zone
(EEZ) of just over 1 million km2. Waters in the EEZ extend to a depth of 5,700 m, with more …

Vigorous exchange between the Indian and Atlantic oceans at the end of the past five glacial periods

FJC Peeters, R Acheson, GJA Brummer… - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
The magnitude of heat and salt transfer between the Indian and Atlantic oceans through
'Agulhas leakage'is considered important for balancing the global thermohaline circulation …

Circulation, renewal, and modification of Antarctic mode and intermediate water

BM Sloyan, SR Rintoul - Journal of physical oceanography, 2001 - journals.ametsoc.org
Nine hydrographic sections are combined in an inverse box model of the Southern Ocean
south of∼ 12° S. The inverse model has two novel features: the inclusion of independent …