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| Azevedo Correia, Joao Marcos; De Boyer Montegut, Clement; Cabanes, Cecile; Klein, Patrice. |
| A method that combines vertical profiles from the ARGO floats program and satellite Sea Surface Height (SSH) data is used to reconstruct the vertical structure of the Agulhas rings. All eddies shed by the Agulhas retroflection in the period between January 2005 and December 2008 were successfully reconstructed. The velocity structures obtained are tilted and phase shifted in relation to the temperature anomalies, resulting in an annual mean eddy meridional heat flux across the ring paths of 0.062 +/- 0.012 PW (northward). A first order estimate indicates 0.07 PW entering the Atlantic from the Indian Ocean through Agulhas rings. The volume transport by Agulhas rings is believed to play a central role in the overturning circulation, being the main process... |
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| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00051/16221/13746.pdf |
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