On the role of the Agulhas system in ocean circulation and climate

LM Beal, WPM De Ruijter, A Biastoch, R Zahn - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Abstract The Atlantic Ocean receives warm, saline water from the Indo-Pacific Ocean
through Agulhas leakage around the southern tip of Africa. Recent findings suggest that …

Southern Hemisphere westerly wind changes during the Last Glacial Maximum: paleo-data synthesis

KE Kohfeld, RM Graham, AM De Boer, LC Sime… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Changes in the strength and position of Southern Hemisphere westerly winds during the
Last Glacial cycle have been invoked to explain both millennial and glacial–interglacial …

Vigorous exchange between the Indian and Atlantic oceans at the end of the past five glacial periods

FJC Peeters, R Acheson, GJA Brummer… - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
The magnitude of heat and salt transfer between the Indian and Atlantic oceans through
'Agulhas leakage'is considered important for balancing the global thermohaline circulation …

Migration of the subtropical front as a modulator of glacial climate

E Bard, REM Rickaby - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Ice cores extracted from the Antarctic ice sheet suggest that glacial conditions, and the
relationship between isotopically derived temperatures and atmospheric have been …

Population genetic structure of Earth's largest fish, the whale shark (Rhincodon typus)

ALF Castro, BS Stewart, SG Wilson… - Molecular …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Large pelagic vertebrates pose special conservation challenges because their movements
generally exceed the boundaries of any single jurisdiction. To assess the population …

Southern Hemisphere westerly wind changes during the Last Glacial Maximum: model-data comparison

LC Sime, KE Kohfeld, C Le Quéré, EW Wolff… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Southern Hemisphere (SH) westerly winds are thought to be critical to global ocean
circulation, productivity, and carbon storage. For example, an equatorward shift in the winds …

Response of the Atlantic overturning circulation to South Atlantic sources of buoyancy

W Weijer, WPM De Ruijter, A Sterl… - Global and Planetary …, 2002 - Elsevier
The heat and salt input from the Indian to Atlantic Oceans by Agulhas Leakage is found to
influence the Atlantic overturning circulation in a low-resolution Ocean General Circulation …

Biogeography of selected Holocene coccoliths in the Atlantic Ocean

P Ziveri, KH Baumann, B Böckel, J Bollmann… - … Molecular processes to …, 2004 - Springer
In this chapter we present a revision of the biogeographical distribution of five
coccolithophorid species (Coccolithus pelagicus, Calcidiscus leptoporus, Heli-cosphaera …

Shallow mtDNA Coalescence in Atlantic Pygmy Angelfishes (Genus Centropyge) Indicates a Recent Invasion from the Indian Ocean

BW Bowen, A Muss, LA Rocha, WS Grant - Journal of Heredity, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Pygmy angelfishes (genus Centropyge) are widespread and species-rich in the Indo-Pacific,
but only three species are recognized in the Atlantic: Centropyge resplendens on the Mid …

Last glacial sea surface temperatures and sea‐ice extent in the Southern Ocean (Atlantic‐Indian sector): A multiproxy approach

R Gersonde, A Abelmann, U Brathauer… - …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
On the basis of the quantitative study of diatom, radiolarian, and planktic foraminiferal
assemblages, we estimated summer sea surface temperature (SSST) and sea‐ice extent at …