Relating Agulhas leakage to the Agulhas Current retroflection location

van Sebille, E.; Barron, C. N.; Biastoch, A.; van Leeuwen, P. J.; Vossepoel, F. C.; de Ruijter, W. P. M.

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Relating Agulhas leakage to the Agulhas Current retroflection location

E. van Sebille, C. N. Barron, A. Biastoch, P. J. van Leeuwen, F. C. Vossepoel, and W. P. M. de Ruijter

E. van Sebille

Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

C. N. Barron

Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, USA

A. Biastoch

Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel, Germany

P. J. van Leeuwen

Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

now at: Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK

F. C. Vossepoel

Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands

now at: Shell International Exploration and Production B.V., Rijswijk, The Netherlands

W. P. M. de Ruijter

Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

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