Abstract: A depth-averaged barotropic model is used to investigate the steady response of the coastal ocean to alongshore pressure gradients imposed by the deep ocean. Solution indicate that the dimensionless continental margin width ...

Abstract: The properties of low-frequency waves, trapped on a wide, reef-fringed continental shelf are predicted theoretically and compared with limited observations from the northeast coast of Australia. A theoretical model of free ...

Abstract: An analytical theory of barotropic tides propagating onto a sloping continental shelf from the deep ocean is developed. The plane Poincaré waves incident from the deep ocean are obliquely angled, and a full matching of ...

Abstract: The East Australian Current (EAC) is a western boundary current flowing southward off the east coast of Australia. Its eddy variability has been shown to be vigorous, a typical feature being the formation of a large warm ...

Abstract: The communication between shallow and deep oceans via gaps in the separating barrier reefs is examined using a simplified two-layer analytical model. Attention is focused on the flow resulting from a sea-level difference ...

Abstract: Linear multiple regression analysis is used to identify the locally and remotely wind-driven components of the nearshore current and adjusted sea level (ASL) variability at Sydney, New South Wales. The data analyzed comprise ...

Abstract: Observations of current, bottom pressure, and wind from the shelf of the Northern Great Barrier Reefare interpreted using a two-layer, frictional, step-shelf model forced by propagating wind stress. Distinguishing features ...

Abstract: The salient features of subinertial frequency fluctuations of current, sea level, temperature and wind stress observed within the Capricornia section of the Great Barrier Reef are interpreted by comparison with coastal-trapped ...

Abstract: We derive expressions that predict the variations of Cartesian, rotary and elliptical properties of free and forced barotropic continental shelf waves as functions of alongshore and cross-shore location. Bottom friction ...

Abstract: In tropical regions, and for applications where the alongshore scale k?1 of the forcing is large, the assumption of constant Coriolis parameters f in Csanady's Arrested Topographic Wave (ATW) model is invalid. Here we ...