Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia
Abstract
A 27-month study of the water properties across the continental shelf off Perth, Western Australia (the Hillarys Transect ) has provided the first systematic inter-disciplinary climatology of the physical, chemical, optical and biological cycles across the shelf. This paper describes the main features of the seasonal and cross-shelf variability of the physical oceanography and chemistry, while companion papers discuss some of the links between the biology and physics of the regio
