The Hillarys Transect (1): Seasonal and cross-shelf variability of physical and chemical water properties off Perth, Western Australia, 1996-98

Authors

Alan Pearce
Mervyn Lynch
Christine Hanson, Edith Cowan University

Document Type

Journal Article

Keywords

hydrography, remote sensing, chlorophyll

Faculty

Faculty of Computing, Health and Science

School

School of Natural Sciences

RAS ID

4979

Comments

Revised manuscript for Continental Shelf Research (ISSN: 0278-4343) click here for publication home page and article index

Abstract

A 27-month study of the water properties across the continental shelf off Perth, Western Australia (the "Hillarys Transect") has provided the first systematic inter-disciplinary climatology of the physical, chemical, optical and biological cycles across the shelf. This paper describes the main features of the seasonal and cross-shelf variability of the physical oceanography and chemistry, while companion papers discuss some of the links between the biology and physics of the region

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