%0 Conference Proceedings
%9 ACTI : Communications avec actes dans un congrès international
%A Godfrey, J.S.
%A Weaver, A.
%T Why are there such strong steric height gradients off western Australia ?
%S Western Pacific international meeting and workshop on Toga Coare : proceedings
%C Nouméa
%D 1989
%E Picaut, Joël
%E Lukas, R.
%E Delcroix, Thierry
%L fdi:30209
%G ENG
%I ORSTOM
%K CIRCULATION OCEANIQUE ; INTERACTION OCEAN ATMOSPHERE ; VENT ; FLUX THERMIQUE ; MODELE MATHEMATIQUE
%K PACIFIQUE TROPICAL OUEST
%K AUSTRALIE OUEST ; LEEUWIN COURANT
%P 215-222
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:30209
%> https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/doc34-08/30209.pdf
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X The Indonesian channel permits equatorial Pacific winds to maintain a bank of very warm (28°C) water along Australian's Northwest shelf. This leads to net ocean cooling of 20°S off western Australia (compared to 40° or 50°S in the eastern Atlantic of Pacific). It is suggested that this convective cooling towards the latitude-dependent Haney equilibrium temperature in turn generates meridional pressure gradients and the onshore geostrophic flows that drive the Leeuwin current; in this sense the equatorial Pacific winds drive the Leeuwin current. Preliminary results from a numerical model support this hypothesis. (Résumé d'auteur)
%B Western Pacific International Meeting and Workshop on Toga Coare
%8 1989/05/24-30
%$ 032DYNEAU ; 020STAT01