Modeling the Brazil ?Malvinas Confluence: Model Configuration

• Main Authors: Palma, Elbio Daniel, Matano, Ricardo, Piola, Alberto Ricardo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Asociación Argentina de Mecánica Computacional
• Subjects: Ocean Models; Open Boundary Conditions; Brazil-Malvinas Confluence; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Argentino; Ricardo; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/36253

The upper ocean circulation near the western margin of the South Atlantic Ocean is dominated by the southward flow of the warm and salty Brazil Current and the northward flow of the cold and relatively fresh Malvinas Current. The collision, near 38 o S, of the two jets produces a strong frontal zone...