Satellite observations of upwelling on the continental shelf south of Madagascar

abstract

• We report on upwelling seen in satellite AVHRR sea surface temperature imagery over the continental slope and shelf of southern Madagascar during February and March 2000. The upwelling is concurrent with anomalously high pseudo windstress over the region during this period. However, the western boundary East Madagascar Current, which is seen over the continental slope region, may contribute to the upwelling effect. The upwelling covers an area of 2 longitude by 1 latitude and at its peak is about 35C cooler than the local ambient sea surface temperature. The paucity of in situ wind and current data in the region, however, prohibit a quantitative assessment of the relative forcing.

authors

• Chapman, Piers
• DiMarco, Steven

published proceedings

• GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

author list (cited authors)

• DiMarco, S. F., Chapman, P., & Nowlin, W. D.

complete list of authors

• DiMarco, SF||Chapman, P||Nowlin, WD

publisher

• American Geophysical Union (AGU)  Publisher

published in

• Geophysical Research Letters  Journal

keywords

• 37 Earth Sciences
• 3708 Oceanography
• 40 Engineering
• 4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1029/2000GL012012

start page

• 3965

end page

• 3968

volume

• 27

issue

• 24