Already the Day After Tomorrow?

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Already the Day After Tomorrow? Bogi Hansen,
Svein Østerhus, Detlef Quadfasel,William
Turrell www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 305 13
AUGUST 2004
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The Indonesian Throughflow ITF affects the SST
of the Pacific Indian beyond?, and
therefore influences large scale sea-air fluxes
and ENSO and the Australasian Monsoon. Climate
models must get it right
In addition, the ITF affects the properties of
the Indonesian seas.
ITF
Warm pool
Monsoon moisture
Annual mean sea surface temperature SST
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1350-m
Sulawesi
2800-m
Halmahera
Maluku
580-m
makassar
1940-m
Seram
680-m
Java
Banda
Flores
1300-1500-m
300-m
Timor
Sill depths meters in red Gordon et al 2003
Seas in Green
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X-equator flow 10, 13 Sv
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Schematic of Indonesian Throughflow pathways (red
numbers represent previously determined transport
in Sv (106 m3/sec) the smaller black numbers
refer to the literature source, see Gordon,
2001). Inserts A-D show positions of INSTANT
moorings. Insert A 2 United States Makassar
Strait Inflow moorings (red diamond) within
Labani Channel. Insert C The Netherlands mooring
within the main channel of Lifamatola Passage
(yellow triangle). Insert B, D Sunda moorings in
Ombai Strait, Lombok Strait, and Timor Passage
United States (red diamonds) France, (purple
square) Australia (green circles). The
positions of the shallow pressure gauge array
(United States, green X).
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