Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Sea-bottom temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen on the continental margin off south-western Africa

1993; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 13; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2989/025776193784287220

0257-7615

R.V. Dingle, G. Nelson,

Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

From a historical data base of temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen for the Benguela shelf between Cape Agulhas and Cape Frio, average bottom patterns for each of these parameters are presented along with statistical justifications. Some physical interpretation is given for various features and variances, involving the poleward undercurrent, wind and upwelling, continental shelf waves and internal tides at the shelf edge and, in the case of oxygen, sediment-exchange chemistry.