• DocumentCode
    410545
  • Title

    A visible record of eddies in the southern Mozambique Channel

  • Author

    Quartly, Graham D. ; Srokosz, Meric A.

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. for Satellite Oceanogr., Southampton Oceanogr. Centre, UK
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    21-25 July 2003
  • Firstpage
    957
  • Abstract
    The flows around Madagascar feed into the Agulhas Current, but there have been few hydrographic studies of the flow within the Mozambique Channel. Some cruise and altimetric data point to this being a region of high mesoscale activity, with eddies migrating through the area. Here we show how ocean colour data throw light on the behaviour of eddies in the southern Mozambique Channel.
  • Keywords
    feature extraction; oceanographic regions; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; Agulhas Current; Indian Ocean circulation; Madagascar; SEC; Southern Equatorial Current; altimetric data; chlorophyll concentrations; eddy migration; feature-tracking; high mesoscale activity; hydrographic studies; hydrographic surveys; ocean colour data; retroflection; satellite imagery; southern Mozambique Channel; visible eddy record; Clocks; Clouds; Feeds; Laboratories; NASA; Oceans; Satellites; Sea measurements; Smoothing methods; Water;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7929-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1293976
  • Filename
    1293976