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The Leeuwin Current has the coast on the wrong side.
• Flowing poleward on the west coast of Australia, the Leeuwin is unique in being a downwelling (elevated coastal sea level) boundary current• Consequently, the geometry of its instabilities are unlike other
boundary currents,• The Australian Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) has a
SeaSonde as well as a WERA HF radar to monitor the Leeuwin off Perth.• Lets compare HF radar, altimetry, SST, MODIS chl-a and drifter
views of the Leeuwin, particularly the small scale shelf-edge features
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Conclusions (part 1)• J2+J1+C2 yields SLA maps similar to what we are used to. The J1
geodetic orbit has not ruined the data for mesoscale applications. C2 orbit has some advantages to compensate the disadvantages. • The HF radar resolves finer-scale processes but is very gappy and
has large errors at coverage perimeter.• The altimetry, HF radar, drifters and imagery mostly yield
consistent pictures of the circulation features.• A 20km-radius cyclonic eddy captured a drifter in the ‘armpit’ of
Leeuwin. Radar estimates (1m/s) agreed with altimetry (geostrophy) even at this radius. Relative vorticity≈planetary.• Leeuwin has 0.1mg/m3 chl-a. Offshore cold water (incl. eddy) has
even less. Coastal cold water had more, but is not the source for the Leeuwin’s elevated concentration.
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Highest-ever sea level at Fremantle
3h period seiche (Molloy, 2001)
MSL
surge
tide
Leeuwin
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modelled sea level, 10-12 June 2012(initialised with altimetry)
Sea level anomaly
N
E
Rottnest Is
Cockburn SoundLeeuwin
180km
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Final conclusion
• Don’t neglect across-shelf wind forcing. That’s what set this record.• De-aliasing of coastal altimetry is harder than deep ocean
altimetry.
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David Griffin & Madeleine Cahill
+61 3 6232 [email protected]
oceancurrent.imos.org.au
CSIRO MARINE AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH
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