Pacific western boundary currents and their roles in climate

D Hu, L Wu, W Cai, AS Gupta, A Ganachaud, B Qiu… - Nature, 2015‏ - nature.com
Pacific Ocean western boundary currents and the interlinked equatorial Pacific circulation
system were among the first currents of these types to be explored by pioneering …

Revisiting the circulation of the East Australian Current: Its path, separation, and eddy field

PR Oke, M Roughan, P Cetina-Heredia, GS Pilo… - Progress in …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The traditional view of the East Australian Current (EAC), as depicted in many schematics, is
of a continuous boundary current that flows along the shelf off eastern Australia, between …

The unprecedented 2015/16 Tasman Sea marine heatwave

ECJ Oliver, JA Benthuysen, NL Bindoff… - Nature …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Abstract The Tasman Sea off southeast Australia exhibited its longest and most intense
marine heatwave ever recorded in 2015/16. Here we report on several inter-related aspects …

Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger

BJ Henley, HV McGregor, AD King, O Hoegh-Guldberg… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in Australia between 2016 and 2024
was driven by high sea surface temperatures (SST). The likelihood of temperature-induced …

Marine heatwaves off eastern Tasmania: Trends, interannual variability, and predictability

ECJ Oliver, V Lago, AJ Hobday, NJ Holbrook… - Progress in …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Surface waters off eastern Tasmania are a global warming hotspot. Here, mean
temperatures have been rising over several decades at nearly four times the global average …

Long‐term trends in the East Australian Current separation latitude and eddy driven transport

P Cetina‐Heredia, M Roughan… - Journal of …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
An observed warming of the Tasman Sea in recent decades has been linked to a poleward
shift of the maximum wind stress curl, and a strengthening of the poleward flow along the …

Projections of future marine heatwaves for the oceans around New Zealand using New Zealand's earth system model

E Behrens, G Rickard, S Rosier, J Williams… - Frontiers in …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
This paper investigates marine heatwave (MHW) characteristics in New Zealand's Earth
System Model (NZESM) simulations for present-day conditions and how they are projected …

Future changes to the upper ocean Western Boundary Currents across two generations of climate models

A Sen Gupta, A Stellema, GM Pontes, AS Taschetto… - Scientific reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
Abstract Western Boundary Currents (WBCs) are important for the oceanic transport of heat,
dissolved gases and nutrients. They can affect regional climate and strongly influence the …

[HTML][HTML] Half a century of coastal temperature records reveal complex warming trends in western boundary currents

NT Shears, MM Bowen - Scientific reports, 2017‏ - nature.com
Accelerated warming of western boundary currents due to the strengthening of subtropical
gyres has had cascading effects on coastal ecosystems and is widely expected to result in …

Multi-decadal decline in cover of giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera at the southern limit of its Australian range

CL Butler, VL Lucieer, SJ Wotherspoon… - … Ecology Progress Series, 2020‏ - int-res.com
Knowledge of long-term and multi-scale trends in ecological systems is a vital component in
understanding their dynamics. We used Landsat satellite imagery to develop the first long …