luanda: ocean currents

December 14, 2008

some quality information on ocean currents off the coast of angola.  not terribly detailed, but probably enough to generate visualization of the detail we might require:

http://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/atlantic/angola_2.html

angola-yyy

particularly like this one, which plots the raw data of buoy movement (which is then assembled into speed and trajectory information):

angola2_oceancurrents-rsmas_raw-data1

angola2_oceancurrents-rsmas_topography

a couple more maps:

http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/175_SR/chap_10/c10_f1.htm

http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/175_IR/chap_12/c12_f1.htm

http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/175_SR/chap_19/chap_19.htm

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