Agulhas Current

A new paper in Nature rethinks how the Agulhas Leakage, the shedding of warm Indian Ocean water into the Atlantic around South Africa's Agulhas Current, influences the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. The study challenges long-held assumptions about how much this leakage drives changes in the overturning circulation, with implications for understanding climate variability and ocean heat transport between ocean basins.