The behaviour of the Leeuwin Current offshore NW Australia during the last five glacial-interglacial cycles

• Published in: Global and Planetary Change
• Main Authors: Spooner, Michelle, De Deckker, Patrick, Barrows, Timothy T., Fifield, L Keith
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Keywords: Glacial; Interglacial; MIS 11; Planktonic foraminifera; Sea surface temperatures; Thermocline depth; Atmospheric temperature; Isotopes; Lakes; Stream flow; Submarine geophysics; Surface properties; Glacial geology; coast; eastern boundary current; glacial Glacial; Sea-surface temperature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/58761; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.10.015; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/58761/7/Spooner_DeDeckker_The_behaviour_2010.pdf.jpg; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/58761/9/C1-11-The_behaviour_of_the_Leeuwin_Current_offshore.pdf.jpg; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/58761/11/01_Spooner_The_behaviour_of_the_Leeuwin_2011.pdf.jpg; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/58761/13/02_Spooner_The_behaviour_of_the_Leeuwin_2011.pdf.jpg

The Leeuwin Current is an anomalous eastern boundary current along the western Australian coast. To investigate its behaviour through time, we studied core MD002361 obtained from below the present-day pathway of the Leeuwin Current offshore the NW tip of