Communications Earth & Environment (Dec 2022)

Robust estimates for the decadal evolution of Agulhas leakage from the 1960s to the 2010s

  • Siren Rühs,
  • Christina Schmidt,
  • René Schubert,
  • Tobias G. Schulzki,
  • Franziska U. Schwarzkopf,
  • Dewi Le Bars,
  • Arne Biastoch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00643-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Agulhas leakage increased in the 1960s through the 1980s but, despite the continued strengthening of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies, has not substantially increased in the 1990s and 2000s, according to observation- and model-based estimates.