The fate of the Deep Western Boundary Current in the South Atlantic ! 1 !

1! The fate of the Deep Western Boundary Current in the South Atlantic! 1! Silvia L. Garzoli , Shenfu Dong , Rana Fine, Christopher S. Meinen, Renellys C. 2! Perez , Claudia Schmid, Erik van Sebille, and Qi Yao ! 3! ! 4! 1 Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University of Miami ! 5! 2 NOAA/Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory! 6! 3 Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami! 7! 4 ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science & Climate Change Research Centre, 8! UNSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 9! 5 Now at Grantham Institute & Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United 10! Kingdom! 11! ! 12! Abstract! 13!

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