Historical hydrographic data from the continental shelf off eastern South America are used to examine the thermohaline properties of the water masses in the region between 20°S and 40°S. The continental shelf water masses ...

The Patagonia continental shelf located off southeastern South America is bounded offshore by the Malvinas Current, which extends northward from northern Drake Passage (∼55deg; S) to nearly 38deg; S. The transition between ...

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea established specific rules for the delineation of the outer limit of the continental shelf in Article 76. This Article contains two formulae and two constraints. ...

Hydrographic data collected during surveys carried out in austral winter 2003 and summer 2004 are used to analyze the distributions of temperature (T) and salinity (S) over the continental shelf and slope of eastern South ...

The interannual variability of the Río de la Plata plume over the Southwestern Atlantic Continental Shelf is analyzed based on the global ocean reanalysis ORAP5.0 and the global atmospheric reanalysis Era-Interim for the ...

Direct current observations and satellite altimetry data over the northern portion of the Argentine continental shelf are used to produce an 11-month long hourly time series and a 25-year long daily time series of along-shore ...

The continental shelf off the coast of central Brazil, extending from 10 to 16°S, is unusually narrow (~ 20 km) and rests on the São Francisco craton. The shelf break is located between the 45 and 50 m isobaths and coincides ...

This article presents a suite of long-term numerical simulations that investigate the dynamical mechanisms controlling the circulation in the South Brazil Bight (SBB). The overarching goal of these simulations is to quantify ...