Shelf break conditions and alongshore flow off northwestern Australia are studied during the strongly evaporative conditions of austral winter 2003. Present results, along with those of previous authors, confirm that a poleward, fresh Leeuwin current core is normally found near the shelf break. Salinity increases alongshore toward the southwest. Although...
Shelf break conditions and alongshore flow off northwestern Australia are studied
during the strongly evaporative conditions of austral winter 2003. Present results,
along with those of previous authors, confirm that a poleward, fresh Leeuwin current core
is normally found near the shelf break. Salinity increases alongshore toward the
southwest. Although...
Austral winter oceanographic measurements from the
northwest Australian continental shelf reveal salty water
forming evaporatively inshore, moving across the wide
shelf near the bottom and into the adjacent open ocean when
the shelf edge alongshore flow is equatorward. The salt
tongue is absent during more normal conditions, when the
poleward...