Godfrey J.S. auteur aut IRD Weaver A. auteur aut IRD text conferencePaper eng text/pdf reformatted digital access 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) specialized CIRCULATION OCEANIQUE INTERACTION OCEAN ATMOSPHERE VENT FLUX THERMIQUE MODELE MATHEMATIQUE PACIFIQUE TROPICAL OUEST 032DYNEAU 020STAT01 Western Pacific International Meeting and Workshop on Toga Coare, Nouméa (NCL), 1989/05/24-30 215-222 Picaut Joël ed. edt IRD Lukas R. ed. edt IRD Delcroix Thierry ed. edt IRD Nouméa ORSTOM 1989 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:30209 [F A30209] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:30209 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/doc34-08/30209.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 1990-07-05 2017-07-07 fdi:30209 fre