South Africa has one of the fastest and strongest flowing currents in the world running along its east coast: the Agulhas Current. It influences local as well as global rainfall and climate. Katherine ...

Marjolaine Krug receives funding from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) (YREF grant EEEO034, and PG grant EEE0023). She is affiliated with 1) the department of Oceanography, ...

Off the southeastern coast of Africa, where the Agulhas Current barrels southward like a river within the ocean, a network of ...

3 years of in situ measurements, combined with along-track satellite data to create long-term index of Agulhas Current transport VIRGINIA KEY, Fla. -- The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) ...

Summer rainfall on the southeast coast of Africa is shown to be influenced by the proximity and temperature of the adjacent warm Agulhas Current. Student's t-test correlations between coastal rainfall ...

New research reveals a powerful yet overlooked driver of climate change: intensifying ocean eddies. These swirling currents—that break off from major currents—are redistributing heat and nutrients in ...

This figure shows the Agulhas system and its leakage into the South Atlantic. The southward shift of the winds in a warming climate (right panel) cause a southward shift of the subtropical front (red ...

The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the image below was “The Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh. The tiny swirls off the coast of Africa are not only beautiful, but they also remind us of ...