西澳洋流

西澳洋流（英语：West Australian Current或Western Australian Current），是位于南冰洋及南印度洋表面的寒流，具季节性，于冬季较弱，夏季较强，而且受当地风势影响^[1]^[2]^[3]。

位置范围

西澳寒流位于澳大利亚西岸，南印度洋东岸。

因为南半球西风漂流遇澳大利亚大陆阻挡而较高纬洋面升高，同时印度洋的南赤道暖流抽走海水导致较低纬海区洋面降低，从而导致洋流从较高纬流至较低纬形成寒流，是一种补偿流。同时受离岸的信风作用，表层海水被带走，深层较冷的海水涌升，亦是垂直方向的补偿流、寒流^[4]。

^ Australia. Dept. of Works; Environmental Resources of Australia, Off-shore current metering west of Garden Island Western Australia : July-September 1972, Environmental Resources of Australia, 1972 [8 October 2014]
^ Andrews, John C, Eddy structure and the west and east Australian currents, Flinders University of South Australia, 1979, ISBN 978-0-7258-0129-8
^ http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2005/09/08/2043133.htm （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） ABC article on currents around Australia
^ Sanmartín, Isabel; Wanntorp, Livia; Winkworth, Richard C, West Wind Drift revisited: testing for directional dispersal in the Southern Hemisphere using event-based tree fitting, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007 [8 October 2014] ^{[永久失效链接]}