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Observations and characterisation of eddies in the South-western Atlantic Ocean during 1993-94

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Ronald Buss de Souza & Ian S. Robinson

School of Ocean and Earth Science
Southampton Oceanography Centre
University of Southampton
Southampton SO14 3ZH
United Kingdom
 

Trajectories of 10 drifting buoys lauched in the Brazil/Malvinas Confluence zone in 1993 and 1994 showing three of the major currents occurring in the study area. BC: Brazil Current; BCC: Brazilian Coastal Current; SAC: South Atlantic Current.

AVHRR image of 27 April 1993 showing the ‘pinching off’ of three cold core (cyclonic) eddies from the cold (Malvinas Current) part of the Brazil/Malvinas Confluence. The eddies are indicated by the arrows. The colour bar indicates temperature in degC.
 
 


Corresponding author: Ronald Buss de Souza (rbds@soc.soton.ac.uk)






This work was supported by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) under fellowship No. 201146/95.9 for the first author. The research was carried out at the Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC), University of Southampton, between 1995-2000 as part of a PhD project. Most of the data used here was obtained from the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE) to which the authors are grateful. 

 
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