KAPEX RAFOS float data report 1997-1999 part B : float trajectories at 750 m in the Benguela Current

dc.contributor.author	Richardson, Philip L.
dc.contributor.author	Pacheco, M. A.
dc.contributor.author	Wooding, Christine M.
dc.coverage.spatial	Benguela Current
dc.coverage.spatial	Agulhas Current
dc.date.accessioned	2005-07-18T20:30:00Z
dc.date.available	2005-07-18T20:30:00Z
dc.date.issued	2003-06
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1912/45
dc.description.abstract	Thirty-two RAFOS floats were launched at the depth of intermediate water, near 750 m, in the Benguela Current along 30S and its extension along 7W. The floats were tracked acoustically for two years during 1997–1999. Seven floats looped in three Agulhas Current rings, which drifted west northwestward at a mean velocity of around 5 cm/sec. Floats not in Agulhas rings tended to drift westward at around 2 cm/sec in the latitude band 22S–35S. North of 22S three floats drifted eastward. This report describes the float trajectories and summarizes the main results. These are the first subsurface long-term Lagrangian data in the Benguela Current.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. OCE-9528574 and OCE-0236654.	en
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dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	WHOI Technical Reports	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	WHOI-2003-02	en
dc.subject	Southeastern Atlantic circulation	en
dc.subject	Mesoscale rings	en
dc.subject	RAFOS floats	en
dc.subject	Seward Johnson (Ship) Cruise SJ97-05	en
dc.title	KAPEX RAFOS float data report 1997-1999 part B : float trajectories at 750 m in the Benguela Current	en
dc.type	Technical Report	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1575/1912/45