Tasman leakage in a fine‐resolution ocean model

Tasman leakage, the westward flow of thermocline waters south of Australia from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean, is one of the lesser‐studied of the inter‐ocean exchanges. Here, some of the properties of the Tasman leakage are inferred from Lagrangian particles integrated using the three‐dimensional velocity fields of the 1/10 degree resolution OFES model. The mean Tasman leakage in this model is 4.2 Sv, with a standard deviation of 4.3 Sv. The...