The Canary Deep Poleward Undercurrent

This is a summary of the paper "The Canary Deep Poleward Undercurrent" for the EuroArgo platform in order to show the possible uses of data from ARGO profilers by the scientific community. The original authors are contained in the review. This study reports the first direct observations of the continuity of the deep poleward flow of the Canary Deep Poleward Undercurrent (CdPU) in the North-Africa sector of the Canary Current Eastern Boundary upwelling system (CanCEBS), and one of the few direct observations in the North-Africa sector of the Canary Current eastern boundary. The results from the measurements reported by Argo floats indicate that the Canary Island archipelago disrupts the deep poleward undercurrent even at depths where the flow is not blocked by the bathymetry. The deep poleward undercurrent flows west around the eastern-most islands and north east of the Conception Bank to rejoin the intermittent branch that follows the African slope in the Lanzarote Passage.