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	Atlantic Ocean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bounded by the Americas on the west and Europe and Africa on the east, the Atlantic is linked to the Pacific Ocean by the Arctic Ocean on the north and the Drake Passage on the south.
		Due to the Coriolis effect, water in the North Atlantic circulates in a clockwise direction, whereas water circulation in the South Atlantic is counter clockwise.
		The climate of the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent land areas is influenced by the temperatures of the surface waters and water currents as well as the winds blowing across the waters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Atlantic (2402 words)

	Atlantic Ocean -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Atlantic Ocean is (The 3rd planet from the sun; the planet on which we live) Earth's second-largest (A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere) ocean, covering approximately one-fifth of its surface.
		On the east, the dividing line between the Atlantic and the (The 3rd largest ocean; bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the East and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south) Indian Ocean is the 20° east meridian.
		The Atlantic is separated from the Arctic Ocean by a line from Greenland to southernmost (A Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean) Svalbard to northern (A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula; achieved independence from Sweden in 1905) Norway.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/at/atlantic_ocean.htm (2087 words)

	Atlantic Ocean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bounded by North and South America on the west and Europe and Africa on the east, the Atlantic is linked to the Pacific Ocean by the Arctic Ocean on the north and the Drake Passage on the south.
		The Atlantic is separated from the Arctic Ocean by a line from Greenland to southernmost Svalbard to northern Norway.
		Due to the Coriolis force, water in the North Atlantic circulates in a clockwise direction, whereas water circulation in the South Atlantic is counter clockwise.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/a/at/atlantic_ocean.html (1896 words)

	Atlantic Ocean - History
		The Atlantic Ocean is essentially an S-shaped north-south channel, extending from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Antarctic continent in the south and situated between the eastern coast of the American continents and the western coasts of Europe and Africa.
		The South Atlantic is arbitrarily separated from the Indian Ocean on the east by the 20° east meridian and from the Pacific on the west along the line of shallowest depth between Cape Horn and the Antarctic Peninsula.
		The Atlantic Ocean may be described as a bed of water colder than 9° C (48° F)-the cold-water sphere-within which lies a bubble of water warmer than 9° C-the warm-water sphere.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/GeogHist/histories/history/hiscountries/A/atlanticocean.html (1285 words)

	Atlantic Ocean. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Atlantic Ocean extends in an S shape from the arctic to the antarctic regions between North and South America on the west and Europe and Africa on the east.
		It is connected with the Arctic Ocean by the Greenland Sea and Smith Sound; with the Pacific Ocean by Drake Passage, the Straits of Magellan, and the Panama Canal; and with the Indian Ocean by the Suez Canal and the expanse between Africa and Antarctica.
		The principal arms of the Atlantic Ocean are Hudson and Baffin bays, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea in the west; the Baltic, North, Mediterranean, and Black seas in the east; and the Weddell Sea in the south.
	www.bartleby.com /65/at/AtlantOc.html (735 words)

	Atlantic - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The volume of the Atlantic Ocean with its adjacent seas is 354,700,000 km³; (85,100,000 mi³) and without them 323,600,000 km³; (77,640,000 mi³).
		Islands in the Atlantic Ocean include Svalbard, Greenland, Iceland, Rockall, Great Britain, Ireland, Fernando de Noronha, the Azores, the Madeira Islands, the Canaries, the Cape Verde Islands, Newfoundland, Bermuda, the West Indies, Ascension, St.
		Tropical cyclones (hurricanes) develop anywhere from off the coast of Africa near Cape Verde to the Windward Islands and move westward into the Caribbean Sea or up the east coast of North America; hurricanes can occur from May to December, but are most frequent from late July to early November.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /atlantic.htm (2068 words)

	South Atlantic
		In the South Atlantic these transform faults are typically spaced some 50-100 km apart, reflect relative plate motion directions of the newly formed crust and occur at offsets of the normal faulted median rift valley that marks the axis of the ridge.
		For South America (east of the Andes), as noted above, the plate motion is consistently to the NW with an Euler pole located at approximately 25.4°S and 126.4°W. For South America west of the Andes the motions to the NE are consistent with the subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the Andes.
		Inspection of the satellite gravity for the South Atlantic indicates that deformation of the oceanic crust appears to be quite common and may be the controlling factor in the development of the Walvis Ridge and Rio Grande Rise aseismic ridges.
	www.mantleplumes.org /SAtlantic.html (3636 words)

	Atlantic Ocean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending in a north-south direction and is divided into the North Atlantic and South Atlantic by equatorial counter currents at about 8 ° north latitude.
		On the east, the dividing line between the Atlantic and the Indian oceans is the 20 ° east meridian.
		The Atlantic is separated from the Arctic Ocean by a line from Greenland to southernmost Spitsbergen to northern Norway.
	usapedia.com /a/atlantic-ocean.html (1783 words)

	Encyclopedia: South Atlantic States
		The South Atlantic States form one of the nine divisions within the United States that are formally recognized by that country's census bureau.
		Together with the East South Central States (Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee) and the West South Central States (Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas), the South Atlantic States constitute the United States Census Bureau's broader region of the South (the other three regions being the Northeast, Midwest and West, all of which have two divisions therein).
		The Deep South is a subregion of the American South, differentiated from the Old South as being the post colonial expansion of Southern States in the antebellum period.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/South-Atlantic-States (1819 words)

	Transport Estimates from Altimeter Data in the South Atlantic Ocean
		Collinear analyzed SSH from ERS-1 and Topex, the free surface of the parallel ocean general circulation model (POCM) by Semtner and Chervin (1992) and monthly dynamic topography calculated from Levitus et al., (1994) data is used to study the seasonal gyre circulation in the South Atlantic.
		It consists of four different parts: (1) the westward Southern South Equatorial Current (SSEC) to the north, (2) the southward Brazil Current to the west, (3) the eastward South Atlantic Current (SAC) to the south and (4) the northward Benguela Current to the east.
		South of the subtropical gyre, the amplitudes are very low, except for the Drake Passage region in the west.
	earth.esa.int /workshops/ers97/papers/romaneesse (3525 words)

	The South Atlantic Current
		The South Atlantic Current (SAC, McCartney 1977) is distinct from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, and is the southern branch of the subtropical gyre in the South Atlantic.
		The hydrographic boundary between the south Atlantic subtropical gyre and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current has been long known as the subtropical convergence (Deacon, 1933) a feature that Krummel (1882) had already described as being a sharp temperature discontinuity streching across most of the south Atlantic.
		Based on the 34.9 isohaline, the STF between 35° and 25°W tends to be south of 40°S while it is primarily north of that latitude between 25°W and 10°E (Stramma and Peterson, 1990).
	oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu /atlantic/south-atlantic.html (782 words)

	South Atlantic tropical cyclone - KnowledgeIsFun.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Cyclone Catarina was an extraordinarily rare tropical cyclone, formed in the southern Atlantic Ocean in March, 2004.
		Catarina is one of only three South Atlantic cyclones to have been recorded by weather satellites, and the only one ever recorded to have reached hurricane-strength and to have hit land.
		If a "hurricane season" were to be demarcated in the South Atlantic, it would most likely be the opposite of the North Atlantic season, from December to May with mid-March being the peak when the oceans are warmest in the Southern Hemisphere.
	www.knowledgeisfun.com /C/Cy/Cyclone-Catarina.php (516 words)

	South Georgia, South Atlantic Ocean
		South Georgia is an island lying on the Scotia Arc in the South Atlantic Ocean located at 37° West, 54.5° South, about 1,300 Km East-South-East of the Falkland Islands.
		In the South Atlantic, the only visible evidence of this substantial feature are the volcanic islands of Ascension, St Helena and Tristan da Cunha.
		Nearly two hundred islands lay scattered to the east and south of Latin America.These islands, which include South Georgia, were mainly discovered and charted by British navigators, and form part of the Scotia Arc which extends from the Andes to the Antarctic continent.
	www.btinternet.com /~sa_sa/south_georgia/south_georgia.html (409 words)

	AVISO Altimetry - Newsletter 8 - South Atlantic ocean and Southern Ocean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Contrary to the North Atlantic, the South Atlantic is largely open to the influence of the southern ocean and other oceans.
		The South Atlantic thermocline exchanges with the Indian Ocean thermocline, and the injection of Pacific-Ocean-derived Antarctic Intermediate and mode water masses in Drake Passage are part of the "warm route, cold route" debate.
		The exchanges between the southern ocean and the Atlantic occur mostly in two very energetic frontal regions, namely the Brazil/Malvinas Confluence, and the Agulhas Current and its retroflection along with the upwelling area of the Benguela Current.
	www-aviso.cnes.fr:8090 /HTML/information/publication/news/news8/provost_uk.html (1299 words)

	Gough Island, South Atlantic Ocean
		It is uninhabited, and is in the direct path of the Roaring Forties, receiving in excess of 100 inches (2,540 mm) of rain per annum.
		At day light, the wind, having hauled to the south, the weather cleared up, and Gough's Island was in sight at about six leagues from us, the base and extreme points of it only to be seen, the higher parts being obscured by clouds.
		They were unable to reach the South African Weather Station on Gough, which was on the far side of the island.
	www.btinternet.com /~sa_sa/gough_island/gough_island.html (1172 words)

	South Atlantic Ocean
		The South Atlantic is dominated by a large zone of high pressure air which produces a counter-clockwise circulation.
		Major ocean currents circulate in a counter-clockwise direction in the South Atlantic and average less than one knot in speed.
		But the South Atlantic said “This is my turf and my terms” and she gave us 30 to 40 knot winds for the next two days.
	www.mdschool.com /south_atlantic_complete2.htm (3123 words)

	SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY: VERTICAL STRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATED CLIMATE FLUCTUATIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		However, little is known about the vertical structure of the ocean temperature variations and how the subsurface dynamics might influence on or drive changes in the surface temperature.
		Analysis of WOCE temperature profiles collected between 1990 and 1996 are used to determine the nature and vertical extent of the temperature fluctuations in the tropical and subtropical South Atlantic.
		In the tropical South Atlantic, the temperature fluctuations are vertically coherent to about 300-meter depths and the largest amplitudes (>1.2º C) occur near 75-meter depths.
	www.iugg.org /iapso/abstracts/IC-02/IC02-49.htm (288 words)

	Naval Co-operation in teh South Atlantic Ocean - African Defence Review No 19, 1994
		Co-operation in the South Atlantic Ocean, between the South African and Argentine Navies is not new.
		The conditions in the South Atlantic Ocean are much better than they were during the eighties, and that there exists a regime of communications and confidence built up by the Governments of the United Kingdom and Argentina.
		The establishment of the Zone of Peace and Co-operation in the South Atlantic is an important development with concerns all the states of the region.
	www.iss.co.za /Pubs/ASR/ADR19/Abelleyra.html (2538 words)

	USATODAY.com - Forecasters tracking first-ever South Atlantic hurricane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Computer models that are working disagree with one saying the storm could hit Brazil, and the other two saying it should turn to the south, but with the two disagreeing on how close to land it will be when it turns.
		Beven says meteorologists can't be sure that a hurricane never formed in the South Atlantic before satellites begin keeping an eye on all of the world's oceans in 1960.
		While the tropical part of the South Atlantic Ocean has large areas with the 80-degree or warmer ocean temperatures needed to sustain hurricanes, upper atmosphere winds are usually blowing much faster than winds near the surface or in the opposite direction.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/hurricane/2004-03-26-brazil-hurricane_x.htm (494 words)

	Saint Helena, South Atlantic Ocean
		Located in the South Atlantic Ocean (15.95°S, 5.70°W; map), St. Helena is a small (122 sq.
		There is a large Saint population in the UK and a substantial St. Helenian community settled in South Africa.
		Saints are extremely hospitable and visitors to the island are made to feel very welcome.
	geosciences.ou.edu /~bweaver/Ascension/sh.htm (546 words)

	FAQ : HURRICANES, TYPHOONS, AND TROPICAL CYCLONES
		In March, 2004 a hurricane DID form in the South Atlantic Ocean and made landfall in Brazil.
		But this still leaves the question of why hurricanes are so rare in the South Atlantic.
		Though many people might speculate that the sea surface temperatures are too cold, the primary reasons that the South Atlantic Ocean gets few tropical cyclones are that the tropospheric (near surface to 200mb) vertical wind shear is much too strong and there is typically no inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) over the ocean (Gray 1968).
	www.aoml.noaa.gov /hrd/tcfaq/G7.html (210 words)

	South Atlantic Ocean and Southern Ocean
		Both currents respond to the wind, the ACC responding to the wind stress along its path, whereas the Malvinas Current responds to a barotropic adjustment to changes in the wind stress curl to the north of 50°S, mostly in the Pacific sector [Vivier et al., 2001].
		This suggests that two distinct regimes occur at Drake Passage: while barotropic fluctuations to the south are driven by the zonal wind stress, changes to the north seem to be driven by the wind stress curl over subtropical regions of the Pacific as speculated by Hughes et al.
		The Agulhas system plays an important role in two ways: first, as the inter-ocean conduit for warm Indian Ocean water into the Atlantic Ocean (the warm water route), thus maintaining the global thermohaline circulation; second, as a key active region in the carbon cycle.
	sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov /science/invest-provost.html (1200 words)

	Atlantic Ocean maps from Omni Resources - International Map & Guidebook Specialists.
		Atlantic Ocean--Magnetic Anomaly Map of the Northeast Atlantic Ocean.
		Illustrates the Bouguer gravity signature of coastal Europe and the free-air anomalies of the adjacent Atlantic Ocean.
		Atlantic Ocean--Bathymetry and Plate Tectonic Evolution of the North Atlantic Ocean.
	www.omnimap.com /catalog/int/atlanoc.htm (181 words)

	Indian eddies supply Atlantic Ocean with warm water
		The Agulhas eddies turned out to be large warm rings of water from the Indian Ocean with a diameter of about 300 kilometres within which the water sometimes rotated at a speed of more than 3.6 kilometres per hour in an anticlockwise direction.
		To everyone's surprise the eddy was found to stretch from the ocean surface right down to the ocean floor at a depth of some five kilometres; it therefore has a volume of about 350,000 cubic kilometres.
		On the ocean surface, young eddies are at most 5 degrees Celsius warmer than the surrounding Atlantic Ocean.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-10/nofs-ies100905.php (410 words)

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