Interannual Variations of Wind Regimes off the Subtropical Western Australia Coast during Austral Winter and Spring

Seasonal and interannual variations of upper ocean heat balance off the west coast of Australia

[1] The Leeuwin Current, a warm, poleward flowing eastern boundary current, dominates the surface circulation off the west coast of Australia and has profound influence on regional marine ecosystem and fisheries recruitment. In this study, the seasonal and interannual variations of upper ocean heat balance in the Leeuwin Current region are analyzed by using an eddy-resolving numerical model sim...

Occurrence of Magellanic Penguins along the Northeast Brazilian Coast during 2008 Austral Winter

During the austral winter of 2008, thousands of penguins traveled to low latitudes along the South Atlantic coast of South America. The atmospheric and oceanic conditions from April to July 2008 may account for the penguins' unusual geographic distribution. During that period, South Atlantic coastal waters were cooler; the wind anomalies had northward and onshore components; the ocean's coastal...

Copepods in sea ice of the western Weddell Sea during austral spring 2004

In the framework of the R.V. Polarstern expedition ‘‘Ice station POLarstern’’ (ISPOL) spatial and temporal trends in composition, abundance and age structure of sea ice inhabiting copepods were investigated in the western Weddell Sea during the transition from the spring to the summer state. For the spatial scale, sea-ice coring was performed at six locations on a transect from the ice edge to ...

Western Iberian winter wind indices

Western Iberian winter wind indices based on significant wind events E. Mason, A. M. P. Santos, and Á. J. Peliz Instituto de Investigação das Pescas e do Mar, Av. Brası́lia, 1449-006 Lisboa, Portugal Departamento de Fı́sica, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal Received: 7 March 2005 – Accepted: 16 March 2005 – Published: 11 April 2005 Correspondence to: E. Mason ([email protected]) ©...

The relationships between grain yield of spring wheat and rainfall distribution in western australia using regression models