Extending our understanding of South Pacific gyre “spin-up”: Modeling the East Australian Current in a future climate

The western Tasman Sea represents a global warming marine ‘‘hot spot,’’ where the waters are warming at almost 4 times the global average rate, argued in the literature to be due to a ‘‘spin-up’’ of the South Pacific subtropical gyre and extension of the East Australian Current (EAC). To further investigate and test this paradigm, we analyze climate change simulations of Tasman Sea circulation and metrics on output from the Ocean Forecasting...