An oceanographic survey of the Tasman Front
作者:
B. R. Stanton,
期刊:
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
(Taylor Available online 1981)
卷期:
Volume 15,
issue 3
页码: 289-297
ISSN:0028-8330
年代: 1981
DOI:10.1080/00288330.1981.9515924
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Tasman Front;East Australian Current;Tasman Sea;eddies;bathythermograph surveys
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Results of a detailed expendable bathythermograph survey in the northern Tasman Sea are presented. The Tasman Front, with its origin in the edge of an East Australian Current eddy, extended throughout the survey region. The front marked a coherent, meandering, zonal jet which crosses the Tasman Sea and hence links at least part of the East Australian Current to the other western boundary currents in the subtropical gyre. The frontal meandering derives from both the variability of the East Australian Current system and the topographic effects of the major ridge systems in the north Tasman Sea. The front is less distinct over the crests of these ridges. The flow field in the survey area contained a number of anticyclonic eddies, and current records show that the oceanic eddies are long‐lived features similar to the eddies in the East Australian Current.
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