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

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.

Pleistocene coastal terraces of Kaikoura Peninsula and the Marlborough coast, South Island, New Zealand

“…The 37 taxa marked with an asterisk in Table 1 are known at present only from southern New Zealand, mostly from Foveaux Strait or farther south (Powell 1979) where present-day mean summer surface water temperatures are 12-14°C (Heath 1985 , fig 3). Present-day summer surface water temperatures in the \icinity of Kaikoura are 15-16°C (Heath 1985). Fleming (in Fleming & Suggate 1964, p. 354) previously noted that "the whole aspect of the fauna is cool", and this is strongly reinforced by the many new additions.…”

Macrobenthic polychaete assemblages of the continental shelf and upper slope off the west coast of the South Island, New Zealand

“…Adopting the framework of Petersentype communities, McKnight (1969) provided a synoptic survey of infaunal benthic communities for the whole New Zealand continental shelf, but there have since been few detailed studies of infaunal community structure of the New Zealand open shelf and upper slope. Except at a relatively coarse level, our understanding of infaunal structure on the New Zealand shelf and slope is still rudimentary, even though New Zealand's continental margin provides interesting opportunities for research into the distributional ecology of benthic communities given, for instance, its latitudinal range and hydrography (Heath 1985), and contrasting sedimentological regimes (Carter 1975;Griffiths & Glasby 1985).…”

Photosynthetic parameters in water masses in the vicinity of the Chatham rise, south pacific ocean, during late summer

“…We took advantage of the high degree of physical and chemical variability within the Chatham Rise area (Fig. 1), where Sub-antarctic water to the south gives way to Sub-tropical water to the north in the sub-tropical convergence zone (STCZ) (Heath 1985;Vincent et al 1991). A fairly wide range of water was thus sampled within a relatively short time period (2 weeks) on the Giljanes cruise.…”