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First oceanographic survey of the entire continental shelf adjacent to the northern Agulhas Current
| العنوان: | First oceanographic survey of the entire continental shelf adjacent to the northern Agulhas Current |
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| المؤلفون: | Lutjeharms, J R E, Durgadoo, J V, Schapira, M, McQuaid, Christopher |
| سنة النشر: | 2010 |
| المجموعة: | South African National ETD Portal |
| Original Material: | vital:6867 |
| الوصف: | [from introduction] The Agulhas Current is by far the largest western boundary current of the southern hemisphere1 and carries about 70 × 106 m3/s of seawater past the eastern shores of South Africa.2 Being more than 2000 m deep, it follows the continental shelf edge quite closely. Its northern part, all the way downstream to Algoa Bay, has a very stable trajectory whereas the southern part meanders widely to either side of a mean geographical location,3 in the process creating shear edge eddies and attendant plumes of warm surface water over the shelf.4 However, the direct influence of the Agulhas Current on the waters and ecosystems of the adjacent shelf of South Africa remains largely unknown. |
| Original Identifier: | oai:union.ndltd.org:rhodes/vital:6867 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Article |
| وصف الملف: | 3 pages; pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011499 http://www.sajs.co.za/index.php/SAJS/article/view/410 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsndl.netd.ac.za.oai.union.ndltd.org.rhodes.vital.6867 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations |
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