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33-760: The East Australian Current (EAC) is a warm, southward, western boundary current that is formed from the South Equatorial Current (SEC) crossing the Coral Sea and reaching the eastern coast of Australia . At around 15° S near the Australian coast the SEC divides forming the southward flow of the EAC. It is the largest ocean current close to the shores of Australia. The EAC reaches a maximum velocity at 30° S, where its flow can reach 90 cm/s. As it flows southward it splits from

66-525: A couple who leave their yuppie lifestyle and drop out of society to live in a motor home as they have always dreamed of doing, meeting disappointment. Brooks's Defending Your Life (1991) placed his lead character in the afterlife , put on trial to justify his human fears and determine his cosmic fate. Critics responded to the off-beat premise and the chemistry between Brooks and Meryl Streep , as his post-death love interest. His later efforts did not find large audiences, but still retained Brooks's touch as

99-614: A filmmaker ostensibly commissioned by the US government to see what makes the Muslim people laugh, and sending him on a tour of India and Pakistan. In 2006 he appeared in the documentary film Wanderlust as David Howard from Lost in America . In 2007, he continued his long-term collaboration with The Simpsons by voicing Russ Cargill, the central antagonist of The Simpsons Movie . He portrayed Lenny Botwin, Nancy Botwin 's estranged father-in-law, during

132-527: A filmmaker. He garnered positive reviews for Mother (1996), which starred Brooks as a middle-aged writer moving back home to resolve tensions between himself and his mother ( Debbie Reynolds ). 1999's The Muse featured Brooks as a Hollywood screenwriter who has "lost his edge", using the services of an authentic muse ( Sharon Stone ) for inspiration. In an interview with Brooks with regard to The Muse , Gavin Smith wrote, "Brooks's distinctive film making style

165-586: A large amount of warm tropical water from the Equator southward. This contributes to the conditions which allow the Great Barrier Reef to thrive, keeping the east coast around 18 °C year round instead of dropping to 12 °C in the winter. The current is very low in nutrients but remains important for the marine ecosystem. The EAC transfers heat from the tropics to the mid-latitude water and atmosphere. It does this by producing warm core eddies , which allow

198-791: A partner and longtime chief creative officer at Los Angeles advertising agency Dailey & Associates. His older half-brother was Charles Einstein (1926–2007), a writer for such television programs as Playhouse 90 and Lou Grant . His grandparents emigrated from Austria and Russia. He grew up among show business families in Southern California, attending Beverly Hills High School with Richard Dreyfuss and Rob Reiner . Brooks attended Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University ) in Pittsburgh (where his classmates included Michael McKean and David L. Lander ), but dropped out after one year to focus on his comedy career. By

231-424: A series of well-received comedies, playing variants on his standard neurotic and self-obsessed character. These include 1981's Modern Romance , where Brooks played a film editor desperate to win back his ex-girlfriend ( Kathryn Harrold ). The film received a limited release and ultimately grossed under $ 3 million domestically. His best-received film, Lost in America (1985), featured Brooks and Julie Hagerty as

264-455: A version of himself) films a typical suburban family in an effort to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize , was a sendup of PBS 's An American Family documentary. It has also been viewed as foretelling the emergence of reality television . Brooks also appeared in the film Private Benjamin (1980), starring Goldie Hawn . Through the 1980s and 1990s, Brooks co-wrote (with long-time collaborator Monica Johnson ), directed and starred in

297-478: A writer/guest performer on some early material by radio and LP record comedy group The Credibility Gap . Brooks led a new generation of self-reflective baby-boomer comics appearing on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson . His on-stage persona, that of an egotistical , narcissistic , nervous comic, an ironic showbiz insider who punctured himself before an audience by disassembling his mastery of comedic stagecraft, influenced other post-modern comedians of

330-709: Is also the author of 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America (2011). Brooks has also voiced several characters in animated films and television shows. His voice acting roles include Marlin in Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel Finding Dory (2016), Tiberius in The Secret Life of Pets (2016), and several one-time characters in The Simpsons , including Hank Scorpio in " You Only Move Twice " (1996) and Russ Cargill in The Simpsons Movie (2007). Brooks

363-616: Is an American actor, director and screenwriter. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1987 comedy-drama film Broadcast News and was widely praised for his performance in the 2011 action drama film Drive . Brooks has also acted in films such as Taxi Driver (1976), Private Benjamin (1980), Unfaithfully Yours (1984), Out of Sight (1998) and My First Mister (2001). He has written, directed, and starred in several comedy films, such as Modern Romance (1981), Lost in America (1985), and Defending Your Life (1991). He

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396-557: Is predicted to increase by more than 20%, due to the increase in South Pacific winds. In the 2003 Disney / Pixar animated film Finding Nemo , the EAC is portrayed as a superhighway that fish and sea turtles use to travel down the east coast of Australia. The characters Marlin ( Albert Brooks ) and Dory ( Ellen DeGeneres ) join Crush ( Andrew Stanton ), Squirt ( Nicholas Bird ) and a group of baby and adult sea turtles and fish in using

429-528: Is remarkably discreet and unemphatic; he has a light, deft touch, with a classical precision and economy, shooting and cutting his scenes in smooth, seamless successions of medium shots, with clean, high-key lighting." Brooks has appeared as a guest voice on The Simpsons seven times during its run (always under the name A. Brooks ). He is described as the best guest star in the show's history by IGN , particularly for his role as supervillain Hank Scorpio in

462-487: Is the westward limb of the very large-scale subtropical gyres. These gyres are driven by the combination of trade winds in the tropics and westerly winds that are found south of about 30 degrees south , through a rather complicated process that includes western boundary current intensification. On the equator, the South Equatorial Current is driven directly by the trade winds which blow from east to west. In

495-750: The Tasman Sea just north of the cape of New Zealand . The remainder will flow south on the EAC Extension until it reaches the Antarctic Circumpolar Current . The Tasman Front transport is estimated at 13 Sv. The eastward movement of the EAC through the Tasman Front and reattachment to the coastline of New Zealand forms the East Auckland Current. The EAC also acts to transport tropical marine fauna to habitats in sub-tropical regions along

528-413: The thermocline layer to mix with the surface layer, bringing some nutrients up to the surface. The EAC and its eddies frequently flow onto the continental shelf and inshore, influencing circulation patterns and increasing mixing. Eddies are not the only way the EAC brings nutrients to the surface. Features along the coast push the current further offshore. If there is a strong northerly wind, it will push

561-509: The 1970s, including Steve Martin , Martin Mull , and Andy Kaufman . After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One (1973) and the Grammy Award -nominated A Star Is Bought (1975), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker. He had already made his first short film, The Famous Comedians School , a satiric short and an early example of the mockumentary subgenre that

594-623: The 2008 season of the Showtime series Weeds . 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America , his first novel, was published by St. Martin's Press on May 10, 2011. Brooks co-starred as the vicious gangster Bernie Rose, the main antagonist in the 2011 film Drive , alongside Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan . His performance received much critical praise and positive reviews. After receiving awards and nominations from several film festivals and critic groups, but not an Academy Award nomination, Brooks responded humorously on Twitter , "And to

627-506: The Academy: 'You don't like me. You really don't like me'." Brooks voiced Tiberius, a curmudgeonly red-tailed hawk, in the 2016 film The Secret Life of Pets , and reprised the role of Marlin in Finding Dory the same year. In 2019, Brooks did not return to do the voice of Tiberius in The Secret Life of Pets 2 , because he was not available. In early November 2023, a documentary about

660-421: The EAC to help them travel to Sydney Harbour to find his son Nemo ( Alexander Gould ). The basic premise of the storyline is actually correct. Every summer, thousands of fish are swept from the Great Barrier Reef to Sydney Harbour and further south; however, the current is not nearly as rapid as depicted in the film. South Equatorial Current Within the southern hemisphere, the South Equatorial Current

693-506: The Indian Ocean, the westward-flowing South Equatorial Current is well-developed only south of the equator. Directly on the equator, the winds reverse twice a year due to the monsoons, and so the surface current can be either eastward or westward. This article about a specific ocean current is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Albert Brooks Albert Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein ; July 22, 1947)

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726-503: The Tasman Sea to have a large biodiversity. The most southern tip of the EAC can produce these eddies by wind currents. As instabilities in the current develop due to a westward Tasman Front, the meander pinches off to form eddies once or twice per year. The EAC causes upwelling along the coastline. The eddies produced cause an increase in vertical mixing within the Tasman Sea. The process of producing, moving, and destroying eddies causes

759-454: The age of 19, he had changed his professional name to Albert Brooks, joking that "the real Albert Einstein changed his name to sound more intelligent". He quickly became a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s, and was on the writing staff for the ill-fated ABC show Turn-On , which was cancelled after one episode. In 1970–71, he also worked with college friends McKean and Lander (alongside Harry Shearer ) as

792-464: The coast at around 31° to 32° S. By the time it reaches 33° S it begins to undergo a southward meander while another portion of the transport turns back northward in a tight recirculation. At this location the EAC reaches its maximum transport of nearly 35  Sv (35 billion liters per second). The majority of the EAC flow that does not recirculate will move eastward into the Tasman Front , crossing

825-403: The comedian/filmmaker, Albert Brooks: Defending My Life , directed by his friend Rob Reiner , was released on Max . The documentary includes interviews from David Letterman , Sharon Stone , Larry David , James L Brooks , Conan O'Brien , Sarah Silverman , Ben Stiller , and others. Later that month, on the podcast WTF with Marc Maron , Brooks supplemented the biographical information in

858-425: The current even further offshore, allowing deep water to rise up the coast, bringing nutrients up to the surface. The EAC varies seasonally. It tends to be strongest in the summer, with a total flow of around 36.3 Sv. It is its weakest during the winter months, flowing at around 27.4 Sv. Over the past 50–60 years the EAC has shifted. The south Tasman Sea has become warmer and saltier from 1944–2002, causing

891-476: The episode " You Only Move Twice ". Brooks also acted in other writers' and directors' films during the 1980s and 1990s. He had a cameo in the opening scene of Twilight Zone: The Movie , playing a driver whose passenger ( Dan Aykroyd ) has a shocking secret. In James L. Brooks 's hit Broadcast News (1987), Albert Brooks was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing an insecure, supremely ethical television news reporter, who offers

924-466: The flow to strengthen and extend southward. This shift in the EAC flow past Tasmania is controlled by the Southern Hemisphere subtropical ocean circulation. This trend is thought to be caused by changes in wind patterns due to ozone depletion over Australia. There is a strong consensus with climate models that this trend will continue to intensify and accelerate over the next 100 years. The current

957-593: The rhetorical question, "Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?" He also won positive notices for his role in 1998's Out of Sight , playing an untrustworthy banker and ex-convict. Brooks received positive reviews for his portrayal of a dying retail store owner who befriends a disillusioned teenager (played by Leelee Sobieski ) in My First Mister (2001). Brooks continued his voiceover work in Pixar 's Finding Nemo (2003), as

990-463: The south east Australian coast. The current also warms up the eastern coastline of the country. The EAC is a surface current driven by winds over the South Pacific. These winds control how the current behaves at different times of year. The EAC starts on the west edge of the South Pacific Gyre where it collects warm, nutrient-poor water. As it skirts along the east coast of Australia, it carries

1023-513: The voice of Marlin, one of the film's protagonists. His 2005 film Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World was dropped by Sony Pictures due to their desire to change the title. Warner Independent Pictures purchased the film and gave it a limited release in January 2006; the film received mixed reviews and a low box office gross. As with Real Life , Brooks plays a fictionalized "Albert Brooks",

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1056-602: Was aired in 1972 on the PBS show The Great American Dream Machine . In 1975, Brooks directed six short films for the first season of NBC 's Saturday Night Live . In 1976, he appeared in his first mainstream film role, in Martin Scorsese 's landmark Taxi Driver ; Scorsese allowed Brooks to improvise much of his dialogue. Brooks directed his first feature film, Real Life , in 1979, which he co-wrote with Harry Shearer and Monica Johnson . The film, in which Brooks (playing

1089-486: Was born Albert Lawrence Einstein on July 22, 1947, into a Jewish show business family in Beverly Hills , California , to Thelma Leeds (née Goodman), an actress, and Harry Einstein , a radio comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor 's radio program and was known as "Parkyakarkus". He is the youngest of three sons. His older brothers are the late comedic actor Bob Einstein (1942–2019), and Clifford Einstein (b. 1939),

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