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ITS BOUNDARIES The Benguela current forms the eastern boundary of the South Atlantic subtropical gyre. Its sources include Indian and South Atlantic subtropical thermocline water; saline, low-oxygen tropical Atlantic water; and cooler, fresher subantarctic water. The Benguela current is 2-300 km wide and widens further as it flows north. Its western, seaward edge is ill-defined, with many temporary and seasonal eddies. ITS EFFECT Where the icy Benguela and the warm, south-flowing Agulhas Current mix, there is a richly productive marine ecosystem off the Cape Of Good Hope but storms and turbulence above. The cold current creates the desert conditions of the shore of Namibia , and the persistent fogs of the Skeleton Coast . A Benguela El Niño effect has been detected, less intense and less frequent than the Pacific Ocean phenomenon. EXTERNAL LINK |
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