User:CSharpMajor7/Good Hope Jet

The Good Hope Jet is a warm water jet that flows off the west coast of South Africa. Coming out of the Cape Peninsula, it runs northward off of the Southern Benguela Current. As a shelf edge frontal jet, it moves along the higher, flatter areas of the seaward slope. The jet, an intrusion of water from the Agulhas Current, was first described by South African oceanographers, Nils Bang and W.R.H. (Bill) Andrews in 1974. The jet, which is being measured and studied with an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, has shown a high degree of conditional flow variability. It's speed and output change frequently due to changes in wind speed and the offshore mesoscale eddy field.

This jet forms a sharp front as it comes into contact with the colder upwelled water over the shelf. The shelf marks where the Benguela and Agulhas currents meet, representing the South Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Oceans rendezvous. The Good Hope Jet also plays a key role in carrying fish eggs and larvae from their food-poor Agulhas Bank spawning grounds to inshore nurseries.

Ongoing studies conducted by the South Atlantic Basin Mooring Array continue to monitor the output and flow of the jet.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016AGUOSPO14E2858R/abstract

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/acoustic-doppler-current-profiler-adcp-measure-streamflow-0