KAPEX RAFOS float data report 1997-1999
Subtitle: Part B. Float trajectories at 750 m in the Benguela Current
By: by P. L. Richardson, M. A. Pacheco, C. M. Wooding.
Contributors: Pacheco, M. A.; Wooding, Christine M.; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Series: WHOI -- 2003-02.; Technical report; WHOI (Series) -- 2003-02.; Technical report (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Publisher: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Woods Hole, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Ocean currents -- South Atlantic Ocean.
Other titles: Float trajectories at 750 m in the Benguela Current.
Description: Thirty-two RAFOS floats were launched at the depth of intermediate water, near 750 m, in the Benguela Current along 30S and its extension along 7W. The floats were tracked acoustically for two years during 1997?1999. Seven floats looped in three Agulhas Current rings, which drifted west northwestward at a mean velocity of around 5 cm/sec. Floats not in Agulhas rings tended to drift westward at around 2 cm/sec in the latitude band 22S?35S. North of 22S three floats drifted eastward. This report describes the float trajectories and summarizes the main results. These are the first subsurface long-term Lagrangian data in the Benguela Current.
Notes: "Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation under contract numbers OCE-9528574 and OCE-0236654."

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