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Wilhelmus P. M. de Ruijter
Researcher at Utrecht University
Publications - 29
Citations - 3038
Wilhelmus P. M. de Ruijter is an academic researcher from Utrecht University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Thermohaline circulation & Ocean current. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 29 publications receiving 2851 citations. Previous affiliations of Wilhelmus P. M. de Ruijter include Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies.
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On the role of the Agulhas system in ocean circulation and climate
Lisa M. Beal,Wilhelmus P. M. de Ruijter,Arne Biastoch,Rainer Zahn,Meghan F. Cronin,Juliet Hermes,Johann R. E. Lutjeharms,Graham D. Quartly,Tomoki Tozuka,Sheekela Baker-Yeboah,Thomas G. Bornman,Paolo Cipollini,Henk A. Dijkstra,Ian Hall,Wonsun Park,Frank Peeters,Pierrick Penven,Herman Ridderinkhof,Jens Zinke +18 more
TL;DR: Detailed modelling experiments—backed by palaeoceanographic and sustained modern observations—are required to establish firmly the role of the Agulhas system in a warming climate.
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Vigorous exchange between the Indian and Atlantic oceans at the end of the past five glacial periods
Frank Peeters,Ruth Acheson,Geert-Jan A Brummer,Wilhelmus P. M. de Ruijter,Ralph R Schneider,Gerald Ganssen,Els Ufkes,Dick Kroon +7 more
TL;DR: The reconstruction indicates that Indian–Atlantic water exchange was highly variable: enhanced during present and past interglacials and largely reduced during glacial intervals, suggesting a crucial role for Agulhas leakage in glacial terminations, timing of interhemispheric climate change and the resulting resumption of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.
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Observations of the flow in the Mozambique Channel
Wilhelmus P. M. de Ruijter,Herman Ridderinkhof,Johann R. E. Lutjeharms,Mathijs W. Schouten,Cornelis Veth +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors observed that the flow in the Mozambique Channel is dominated by a train of large anti-cyclonic eddies (diameters > 300 km) that reach to the channel bottom and propagate southward at a frequency of 4 per year they cause a net poleward transport of about 15 Sv (1 Sv = 106 m3/s) in the deep sea.
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Eddies and variability in the Mozambique Channel
TL;DR: In this article, a statistical analysis of SSH observations in different parts of the Mozambique Channel shows a southward decrease of the dominant frequency of the variability, going from 7 per year in the extension of the South Equatorial Current north of Madagascar to 4 per year south of Madagascar.
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Eddies and dipoles around South Madagascar: formation, pathways and large-scale impact
Wilhelmus P. M. de Ruijter,Hendrik M. van Aken,Emilio Beier,Johann R. E. Lutjeharms,Ricardo P. Matano,Mathijs W. Schouten,Mathijs W. Schouten +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the Dutch-South African Agulhas Current Sources Experiment (ACSEX) was used to detect a dipole-like vortex structure directly southwest of Madagascar during a hydrographic cruise.