Further on Tony Palliser's remarks on sea conditions. I was down on the
south coast at the weekend, watching thousands of Short-tailed Shearwaters
moving by. Can anyone tell me if the Eastern Australian current (which is
really a series of giant eddies, that move up and down the coast) is related
to the El Nino phenomenon and how? The behaviour of the Eastern Australian
current seems to be directly connected with the numbers of shearwater
mortalities, but I am not aware if those deaths also correlate with El Nino.
Does anybody know?
Also, we get the worst droughts in OZ when we get the combination fo an El
Nino and also a phenomenon that affects the north-west Indian Ocean. I
haven't seen anything about what's happening in the Indian Ocean. Can
anyone shed any light on this?
John Penhallurick
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Canberra, Australia
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