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• Leeuwin_Current abstract "The Leeuwin Current is a warm ocean current which flows southwards near the western coast of Australia. It rounds Cape Leeuwin to enter the waters south of Australia where its influence extends as far as Tasmania. The West Australian Current and Southern Australian Countercurrent, which are produced by the West Wind Drift on the southern Indian Ocean and at Tasmania, respectively, flow in the opposite direction, producing one of the most interesting oceanic current systems in the world. Its strength varies through the year; it is weakest during the summer months (winter in the northern hemisphere) from November to March when the winds tend to blow strongly from the south west northwards. The greatest flow is in the autumn and winter (March to November) when the opposing winds are weakest. Evaporation from the Leeuwin current during this period contributes greatly to the rainfall in the southwest region of Western Australia. Typically the Leeuwin Current's speed and its eddies are about 1 knot (50 cm/s), although speeds of 2 knots (1 m/s) are common, and the highest speed ever recorded by a drifting satellite-tracked buoy was 3.5 knots (6.5 km/h). The Leeuwin Current is shallow for a major current system, by global standards, being about 300 m deep, and lies on top of a northwards countercurrent called the Leeuwin Undercurrent.The Leeuwin Current is very different from the cooler, equatorward flowing currents found along coasts at equivalent latitudes such as the southwest African Coast (the Benguela Current); the long Chile-Peru Coast (the Humboldt Current), where upwelling of cool nutrient-rich waters from below the surface results in some of the most productive fisheries; the California Current, which brings foggy conditions to San Francisco; or the cool Canary current of North Africa. Because of the Leeuwin Current, the continental shelf waters of Western Australia are warmer in winter and cooler in summer than the corresponding regions off the other continents. The Leeuwin Current is also responsible for the presence of the most southerly true corals at the Abrolhos Islands and the transport of tropical marine species down the west coast and across into the Great Australian Bight. The ‘core’ of the Leeuwin Current can generally be detected as a peak in the surface temperature with a strong temperature decrease further offshore. The surface temperature difference across the Current is about 1°C at North West Cape, 2° to 3° at Fremantle and can be over 4° off Albany in the Great Australian Bight. The current frequently breaks out to sea, forming both clockwise and anti-clockwise eddies.The Leeuwin Current is influenced by El Niño conditions, characterised by slightly lower sea temperatures along the Western Australian coast and a weaker Leeuwin Current, with corresponding effects upon rainfall patterns.The existence of the current was first suggested by William Saville-Kent in 1897. Saville-Kent noted the presence of warm tropical water offshore in the Houtman Abrolhos, making the water there in winter much warmer than inshore at the adjacent coast. The existence of the current was confirmed over the years, but not characterised and named until Cresswell and Golding did so in the 1980s.".
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• Leeuwin_Current wikiPageWikiLink Albany,_Western_Australia.
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• Leeuwin_Current wikiPageWikiLink Eddy_(fluid_dynamics).
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• Leeuwin_Current wikiPageWikiLink Physical_oceanography.
• Leeuwin_Current wikiPageWikiLink Tasmania.
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• Leeuwin_Current wikiPageWikiLink Western_Australia.
• Leeuwin_Current wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:countercurrent.
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• Leeuwin_Current wikiPageWikiLinkText "Leeuwin Current (LC)".
• Leeuwin_Current wikiPageWikiLinkText "Leeuwin Current".
• Leeuwin_Current wikiPageWikiLinkText "Leeuwin current".
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• Leeuwin_Current subject Category:Coastline_of_Western_Australia.
• Leeuwin_Current subject Category:Currents_of_the_Indian_Ocean.
• Leeuwin_Current subject Category:Indian_Ocean.
• Leeuwin_Current subject Category:Ocean_currents.
• Leeuwin_Current type Current.
• Leeuwin_Current comment "The Leeuwin Current is a warm ocean current which flows southwards near the western coast of Australia. It rounds Cape Leeuwin to enter the waters south of Australia where its influence extends as far as Tasmania. The West Australian Current and Southern Australian Countercurrent, which are produced by the West Wind Drift on the southern Indian Ocean and at Tasmania, respectively, flow in the opposite direction, producing one of the most interesting oceanic current systems in the world.".
• Leeuwin_Current label "Leeuwin Current".
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• Leeuwin_Current depiction CSIRO_ScienceImage_10719_NOAA_polar_orbiting_satellites_obtain_the_data_generating_sea_surface_temperature_images_This_is_a_composite_15day_image_showing_the_extension_of_the_Leeuwin_Current_around_Tasmania.jpg.
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