Chapter 1: Geographic Setting Chapter 2: Wind, Rainfall, and Sediment Inflow 2.1 Meteorology 2.2 Freshwater Input 2.2.1 Rainfall 2.2.2 Freshwater Inflow 2.2.3 Estuarine Filtering 2.3 Sediment Inflow 2.3.1 Riverine Sediment 2.3.2 Estuarine Trapping 2.3.3 Dredging Chapter 3: Water Properties and Patchiness 3.1 Types of Water 3.2 Coral Sea Nutrients 3.3 Shelf Waters 3.4 River Plumes 3.5 Topographically Controlled Patchiness 3.6 Turbidity 3.7 Biological Patchiness Chapter 4: The Tides 4.1 Sea Levels4.2 Tidal Currents 4.2.1 Central Region 4.2.2 Southern Region 4.2.3 Northern Region 4.2.4 Tidal Blocking by Reefs: An Example in Torres Strait 4.3 Internal Tides Chapter 5: Low-Frequency Motions 5.1 Low-Frequency Sea-Level Oscillations 5.2 Low-Frequency Current Fluctuations 5.2.1 Central Region 5.2.2 Coral Sea Adjoining the Central Great Barrier Reef 5.2.3 Southern Region 5.2.4 Northern Region 5.2.5 Gulf of Papua Chapter 6: Models of the Low-Frequency Circulation 6.1 Barotropic Currents in the Central and Southern Regions 6.2 Influence of the Reefs on Cross-Shelf Movements6.3 Baroclinic Effects in the Central Region 6.4 Northern Region 6.5 Torres Strait 6.6 Influence of the East Australian Current 6.6.1 Sticky Waters Chapter 7: High-Frequency Waves 7.1 Seiching 7.2 Forcing 7.2.1 Forcing from the Coral Sea 7.2.2 Forcing by the Local Wind 7.2.3 Forcing by Tropical Cyclones 7.3 Wave Breaking by Coral Reefs 7.4 Wave Setup and Circulation 7.5 Wave Focusing by Reef Platforms 7.6 Biological Wave Damping Chapter 8: Reef-Induced Circulation 8.1 Reynolds Number Analogy 8.2 Island Wakes 8.3 Upwelling Mechanisms around Coral Reefs8.4 Upwelling in Free-Shear Layers 8.5 Secondary Circulation in Small Shallow Bays 8.6 Tidal Jets 8.7 Tidal Currents in a Reef Matrix 8.8 Large-Scale Circulation 8.9 Flow through the Substrate 8.10 Baroclinic Circulation Chapter 9: Mixing and Dispersion Around Coral Reefs 9.1 Barotropic Processes Generating Patchiness 9.1.1 Lateral Trapping 9.1.2 Coastal Circulation 9.1.3 Free Shear Layers 9.1.4 Secondary Three-Dimensional Circulation 9.1.5 Sticky Waters 9.2 Baroclinic Effects Generating Patchiness 9.3 Open Water Aggregating Mechanisms 9.4 Models of PatchinessChapter 10: Managing the Great Barrier Reef 10.1 The Impact of Man 10.2 Physical Oceanography as a Tool for Management