Cape Agulhas, South Africa: Where the Indian and Atlantic Ocean meet . By Greg ... the elements at Cape Agulhas are kinder than at its opposite number, Norway's savage North Cape Plateau, ...

The greater Agulhas system around southern Africa forms a key component of the global ocean circulation 1,2,3 ().This system feeds the upper arm of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation ...

Exploring the Indian Ocean "Okay, we'll take over winch 6," he says as he wiggles a tiny joystick on the computer. On another computer, there are a lot of what appear to be just coloured squiggles, ...

A new study found that the Indian Ocean's Agulhas Current is getting wider rather than strengthening. The findings, which have important implications for global climate change, suggest that ...

The Agulhas Current transports warm and salty waters from the tropical Indian Ocean to the southern tip of Africa, where most of the water loops around to remain in the Indian Ocean (the Agulhas ...

Step aboard the SA Agulhas II as it set sail on a South Africa-led research expedition to uncover the Indian Ocean's secrets. The voyage forms part of the second International Indian Ocean Expedition.

A huge drop in sea levels trapped extremely salty water in the Indian Ocean, which then gushed into the Atlantic when currents changed 15,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site ...

For two months, micropaleontologist Jens Herrle sailed across the Indian Ocean, searching for traces of Earth’s distant past. But amidst the drilling and data collection, he found something ...

New research suggests that the Indian Ocean's Agulhas Current is growing wider, not stronger. This change in its activity is the effect of manmade climate change.

The interoceanic transfer of seawater between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic, ‘Agulhas leakage’, forms a choke point for the overturning circulation in the global ocean. Here, by combining ...

But during this process (known as a retroflection), large pockets of warm, salty, Indian Ocean water are pinched off from the current. They form ring-like structures called Agulhas Rings or eddies ...

In South Africa, many say the Indian and Atlantic oceans meet at Cape Point, but lesser-known Cape Agulhas, about 150 miles away, wants to turn the tide.