The South Atlantic: Present and Past Circulation

Central Themes of South Atlantic Circulation.- On the Circulation of the South Atlantic Ocean.- Transient-Tracer Information on Ventilation and Transport of South Atlantic Waters.- The Circulation and its Variability of the South Atlantic Ocean: First Results from the TOPEX/POSEIDON Mission.- The Zonal WOCE Sections in the South Atlantic.- South Atlantic Heat Transport at 11°S.- Comment on the South Atlantic’s Role in the Global Circulation 121 -.- The Exchange of Water between the South Indian and South Atlantic Oceans.- The Benguela: Large Scale Features and Processes and System Variability.- The Southern Boundary of the South Atlantic.- Antarctic Intermediate Water in the South Atlantic.- Lagrangian Measurements in the Malvinas Current.- Circulation in the Deep Brazil Basin.- The Deep Water Regime in the Equatorial.- Chlorofluoromethanes in the Deep Equatorial Atlantic Revisited.- Modelling the Ocean Circulation in the South Atlantic: A Strategy for Dealing with Open Boundaries.- Mass and Heat Transports in the South Atlantic Derived from Historical Hydrographic Data.- Long-term Observation of Particle Fluxes in the Eastern Atlantic: Seasonality, Changes of Flux with Depth and Comparison with the Sediment Record.- Silica Signals in the South Atlantic.- On the Bathymetry of the Hunter Channel.- Expeditions into the Past: Paleoceanographic Studies in the South Atlantic.- Inverse Modelling of the Glacial Atlantic CirculationSystem: Investigation of Data Requirements.- Chemical Hydrography of the South Atlantic During the Last Glacial Maximum: Cd vs. ?13C.- High Latitude Deep Water Sources During the Last Glacial Maximum and the Intensity of the Global Oceanic Circulation.- Late Quaternary Surface Circulation in the South Atlantic: The Stable Isotope Record and implications for Heat Transport and Productivity.- Climate Feedback and Pleistocene Variations in the Atlantic South Equatorial Current.- Late Quaternary Surface Temperatures and Productivity in the East-Equatorial South Atlantic: Response to Changes in Trade/Monsoon Wind Forcing and Surface Water Advection.- Late Quaternary Movements of the Angola- Benguela Front, SE Atlantic, and Implications for Advection in the Equatorial Ocean.- Late Quaternary Deep Circulation in the Western Equatorial Atlantic.- Late Quaternary Deep Water Circulation in the South Atlantic: Reconstruction from Carbonate Dissolution and Benthic Stable Isotopes.- Clay Mineral Fluctuations in Late Quaternary Sediments of the Southeastern South Atlantic: Implications for Past Changes of Deep Water Advection.

"...comprehensive, well-written, superbly illustrated, thoroughly documented and it will no doubt constitute a landmark in our understanding of the South Atlantic oceanography. It will have its place in all specialized libraries." Bulletin de la Societe belge de Geologie