Abstract
Australia’s climate is particularly influenced by global ocean circulation as its coastlines border the Pacific and Indian Oceans and form a prominent northern boundary of part of the Southern Ocean. The magnitude of meridional heat flux and transport in these oceanic areas is poorly understood, and the seasonal and interannual variability is not known at all. Variations in these quantities can produce wide reaching climatological effects for Australia, and there is therefore a crucial need to improve our understanding of the ocean circulation in the neighbouring oceans.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Baines, P.G. and Hubbert, G. (1988). Fluid transport through Bass Strait, proceedings 2nd Conf. on Air-Sea Interaction, Merimbula, N.S.W., 14–17 Feb.
Beutler, G., Gurtner, W., Rothacher, M., Schildknecht, T. and Bauersima, I. (1986). Evaluation of the March 1985 high precision baseline (HPBL) test: fiducial point concept versus free network solutions, EOS Trans. AGU, 67, 911.
Fandry, C.B., Hubbert, G. and McIntosh, P.C. (1985). Comparison of predictions of a numerical model and observations of tides in Bass Strait, Aust.J.Mar.Freshw.Res., 36, 737–752.
Grant, D.B. (1989). Combination of terrestrial and GPS data for earth deformation studies in New Zealand, UNISURV S-32, School of Surveying, University of New South Wales, Australia, in press.
Heiskanen, W. and Moritz, H. (1967). Physical geodesy, W.H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco.
Kearsley, A.H.W. (1988). Tests on the recovery of precise geoid height differences from gravimetry, J. Geophys. Res., 93 (B6), 6559–6570.
Kellogg, J.N., Dixon, T.H. and Neilan, R.E. (1989). CASA Central and South America GPS geodesy, EOS Trans. AGU, 70, 649.
King, R.W., Masters, E.G., Rizos, C., Stolz, A. and Collins, J. (1987). Surveying with GPS, Dümmler Verlag, Berlin.
Rizos, C. (1980). The role of the gravity field in sea surface topography studies, UNISURV S-17, School of Surveying, University of New South Wales, Australia.
Rizos, C., Govind, R. and Stolz, A. (1989). The Australian GPS orbit determination pilot project: a status report, IAG Symp. Edinburgh, 3–12 August.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1990 Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
About this paper
Cite this paper
Rizos, C., Coleman, R. (1990). Vertical Datum Definition for Oceanographic Studies Using the Global Positioning System. In: Sünkel, H., Baker, T. (eds) Sea Surface Topography and the Geoid. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 104. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7098-7_15
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7098-7_15
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-0-387-97268-8
Online ISBN: 978-1-4684-7098-7
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive