COMS

Meetings/Workshops on Oceanography in South Africa

Conference-Service.com offers, as part of our business activities, a directory of upcoming scientific and technical meetings. The calendar is published for the convenience of conference participants and we strive to support conference organisers who need to publish their upcoming events. Although great care is being taken to ensure the correctness of all entries, we cannot accept any liability that may arise from the presence, absence or incorrectness of any particular information on this website. Always check with the meeting organiser before making arrangements to participate in an event!

Meeting organisers can submit meetings free of charge for inclusion into the listing.

Select a location:
Canada (1) - Croatia (1) - Germany (1) - South Africa (1) - United Kingdom (1) - United States (3) - Vietnam (1) - ALL COUNTRIES (9)

1.The Agulhas System and its Role in Changing Ocean Circulation, Climate, and Marine Ecosystems
Dates	08 Oct 2012 → 12 Oct 2012	[ID=475325]
Location	Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
Abstract	The Agulhas System plays a significant role in the global ocean circulation and climate. Warm, saline waters from the Indian Ocean flow into the Atlantic as part of the interocean exchange around the southern tip of Africa. Ongoing increases in this so-called Agulhas Leakage, presently under anthropogenic forcing, could strengthen the global overturning circulation in the Atlantic at a time when warming and accelerated meltwater input in the North Atlantic are predicted to weaken it. However compared to processes in the North Atlantic, the Agulhas system has been largely ignored as a potential trigger or stabilizer of climate variability. At regional scales the Agulhas influences extreme weather events while interannual rainfall variations in southern Africa are correlated with warm and cold anomalies in the Agulhas system, associated with the Indian Ocean climate modes. Large Marine Ecosystems in the region and the distribution of large pelagic species and their fisheries are also influenced by variations in the physical Agulhas system in an as yet poorly known manner. The purpose of this Chapman conference is to identify the most pressing questions and to design modeling experiments in combination with paleoceanographic and (sustained) modern observations to establish the role of the Agulhas system from regional to global scales.
Weblink	http://www.agu.org/meetings/chapman/2012/ecall/
Related subject(s)	Geophysics and Geology

View all listed conferences in South Africa.

Last updated: 13 March 2012