The importance of the greater Agulhas Current is increasingly being recognised
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In February 2010, the annual Ocean Science meeting was held in Portland, Oregon, USA.For the first time in the history of this conference at least two sessions were aimed at aspects of the Agulhas Current system.In conjunction with the conference, the first meeting of a Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) Working Group on the global influence of the Agulhas Current 1 was held, attracting representatives of 13 countries.In addition, towards the end of 2009 a new EU research programme was approved called GATEWAYS 2 to study mainly the palaeoceanographic implications of the Agulhas Current.In the meantime, the Dutch are maintaining an expensive array of current meter moorings in the Mozambique Channel called Long-term Ocean Climate Observations (LOCO), 3 while the University of Miami will be placing a similar set of moorings across the Agulhas Current near East London 4 in April 2010.Why this sudden explosion of international interest in the greater Agulhas Current?
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The north-south distinction may be explained by oceanographic conditions: northern sites are under year-round East African Coast Current influence, while southern sites are in the Northern Mozambique Channel influenced by Mozambique Channel eddies, the South Equatorial Current bifurcation, and the transition of the South Equatorial Current into the East African Coast Current.
“This distinction between sites may be explained by different oceanographic conditions.The northern sites are under year-round influence of the EACC, while the southern sites are part of the NMC with influence of the Mozambique Channel eddies, the bifurcation of the SEC in front of the African continent and the transition of the SEC into the EACC (Lutjeharms and Bornman 2010;Schott and McCreary 200”
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- Authors
- Lutjeharms, J. R. E., & Bornman, T. G.
- Affiliations
- Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town
- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (ZA)
- ORCID
- Bornman, Thomas G.
- Venue
- South African Journal of Science
- Publisher
- Academy of Science of South Africa
- Published
- 2010-04-13
- Volume
- 106
- Issue
- 3/4
- ISSN
- 0038-2353 (ISSN-L)
- 1996-7489
- OpenAlex
- W2040832172
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- South African Journal of Science (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Nelson Mandela University Research Repository (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Keywords
- Agulhas Current, Mozambique Channel, ocean circulation, paleoceanography, current meter moorings, LOCO, East London
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