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Moored observations of mesoscale features in the Cape Basin: characteristics and local impacts on water mass distributions
Marine Research Institute, Department of Oceanography – University
of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
NOAA/Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, Florida, USA
Tarron Lamont
Marine Research Institute, Department of Oceanography – University
of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Environmental Affairs, Cape Town, South Africa
Sabrina Speich
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, UMR 8539 École Polytechnique, ENS, CNRS, Paris, France
Thierry Terre
IFREMER, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM,
Plouzané, France
Remi Laxenaire
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, UMR 8539 École Polytechnique, ENS, CNRS, Paris, France
Mike J. Roberts
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Environmental Affairs, Cape Town, South Africa
Ocean Science & Marine Food Security, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Marcel A. van den Berg
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Environmental Affairs, Cape Town, South Africa
Isabelle J. Ansorge
Marine Research Institute, Department of Oceanography – University
of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
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