New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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A review of the physical oceanography of the seas around New Zealand - 1982

R. A. HEATH

New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Division of Marine and Freshwater Science Department of Scientific and Industrial Research P. O. Box 12-346, Wellington New Zealand

Abstract The paper reviews the physical oceanography of the seas around New Zealand as known up to 1982 and includes: deep-ocean water characteristics and mean flow; fronts, tides, and coastal and continental shelf oceanography; and waves and tsunamis.

Keywords New Zealand; physical oceanography; currents; tides; temperature; salinity; coastal; waves; tsunamis; flow

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1985, Vol. 19: 79-124 Received 17 October 1983; accepted 10 August 1984

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