The Great Barrier Reef
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(B)
Figure 4.2 A, Mean surface currents in the Coral Sea as derived by OSCAR-NOAA satellite data. (Source: http://www.oscar.
noaa.gov/). B, Details of the circulation derived from ship-born CTD data (plotted as contours of volume transport (in Sv;
1 Sv, 1 million m
3 s
–1 ) for the top 1000 m (positive for clockwise flow, negative for counter-clockwise flow). (Adapted from
Andrews and Clegg 1989.)
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(B)
Figure 4.2 A, Mean surface currents in the Coral Sea as derived by OSCAR-NOAA satellite data. (Source: http://www.oscar.
noaa.gov/). B, Details of the circulation derived from ship-born CTD data (plotted as contours of volume transport (in Sv;
1 Sv, 1 million m
3 s
–1 ) for the top 1000 m (positive for clockwise flow, negative for counter-clockwise flow). (Adapted from
Andrews and Clegg 1989.)