The tropical Atlantic observing system

GR Foltz, P Brandt, I Richter… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The tropical Atlantic is home to multiple coupled climate variations covering a wide range of
timescales and impacting societally relevant phenomena such as continental rainfall …

Seasonal trends and phenology shifts in sea surface temperature on the North American northeastern continental shelf

AC Thomas, AJ Pershing, KD Friedland, JA Nye… - Elem Sci …, 2017 - online.ucpress.edu
The northeastern North American continental shelf from Cape Hatteras to the Scotian Shelf
is a region of globally extreme positive trends in sea surface temperature (SST). Here, a 33 …

Seasonal occurrence and diel calling behaviour of Antarctic blue whales and fin whales in relation to environmental conditions off the west coast of South Africa

FW Shabangu, KP Findlay, D Yemane… - Journal of Marine …, 2019 - Elsevier
Passive acoustic monitoring was used to detect the sounds of rarely sighted Antarctic blue
and fin whales to investigate their seasonal occurrence (as presence or absence of whale …

Interannual variability in the S outh‐E ast A tlantic O cean, focusing on the B enguela U pwelling S ystem: Remote versus local forcing

ML Bachèlery, S Illig, I Dadou - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the respective roles of equatorial remote (Equatorial Kelvin Waves) and local
atmospheric (wind, heat fluxes) forcing on coastal variability in the South‐East Atlantic …

[HTML][HTML] Eastern boundary circulation and hydrography off Angola: Building Angolan oceanographic capacities

P Tchipalanga, M Dengler, P Brandt… - Bulletin of the …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Eastern Boundary Circulation and Hydrography Off Angola: Building Angolan Oceanographic
Capacities in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 99 Issue 8 (2018) Jump …

Interannual coastal trapped waves in the Angola-Benguela upwelling system and Benguela Niño and Niña events

ML Bachèlery, S Illig, M Rouault - Journal of Marine Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
We investigate the dynamics of the interannual Coastal Trapped Waves (CTW) propagations
along the south-western African coast and their role in triggering Benguela Niño and Niña …

Role of interannual K elvin wave propagations in the equatorial A tlantic on the A ngola B enguela C urrent system

RA Imbol Koungue, S Illig… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The link between equatorial Atlantic Ocean variability and the coastal region of Angola‐
Namibia is investigated at interannual time scales from 1998 to 2012. An index of equatorial …

Causes and evolution of the southeastern tropical Atlantic warm event in early 2016

JF Lübbecke, P Brandt, M Dengler, R Kopte, J Lüdke… - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
A strong warm event occurred in the southeastern tropical Atlantic Ocean off Angola and
Namibia in January and February 2016 with sea surface temperature anomalies reaching 3° …

Global impacts of subseasonal (< 60 day) wind variability on ocean surface stress, buoyancy flux, and mixed layer depth

DB Whitt, SA Nicholson… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Subseasonal surface wind variability strongly impacts the annual mean and subseasonal
turbulent atmospheric surface fluxes. However, the impacts of subseasonal wind variability …

Propagation of subseasonal equatorially-forced coastal trapped waves down to the Benguela upwelling system

S Illig, ML Bachèlery - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
The oceanic connection between the coastal variability along the southwestern African
coasts and the linear equatorial dynamics at subseasonal time-scales (< 120 days) is …