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The Indonesian Throughflow (ITF; Indonesian: Arus Lintas Indonesia) is an ocean current with importance for global climate as is the low-latitude movement of warm, relative freshwater from the north Pacific to the Indian Ocean. It thus serves as a main upper branch of the global heat/salt conveyor belt.
The Lombok Strait (Indonesian: Selat Lombok), is a strait of the Bali Sea connecting to the Indian Ocean, and is located between the islands of Bali and Lombok in Indonesia. The Gili Islands are on the Lombok side. Its narrowest point is at its southern opening, with a width of about 20 km (12 miles) between the islands of Lombok and Nusa ...
Ombai Strait (Indonesian: Selat Ombai, Portuguese: Estreito de Ombai, Tetum: Estreitu Ombai) is an international strait in Southeast Asia. It separates the Alor Archipelago from the islands of Wetar, Atauro, and Timor in the Lesser Sunda Islands. The strait is also the western portion of a pair of international straits, the other one being ...
Distinctive white lines trace the flow of surface currents around the world. An ocean current is a continuous, directed movement of seawater generated by a number of forces acting upon the water, including wind, the Coriolis effect, breaking waves, cabbeling, and temperature and salinity differences. [ 1 ]
For the Mindanao Current in particular, numerous simulations have agreed that the current will decrease in strength. It is projected to decrease by a magnitude of along with the Indonesian Throughflow which it supplies. Although the total transport will probably weaken, most of the weakening is subsurface and it will intensify above 100 m south ...
The other is known as the warm route, which moves through the Indonesian Throughflow and transports warm water into the Indian Ocean. With the Tasman Outflow there is a third route of the thermohaline circulation with Subantarctic Mode Water and Antarctic Intermediate Water transport from the Pacific to the North Atlantic.
The Indonesian Throughflow is a unique Equatorial connection to the Pacific. [21] The climate north of the equator is affected by a monsoon climate. Strong north-east winds blow from October until April; from May until October south and west winds prevail. In the Arabian Sea, the violent Monsoon brings rain to the Indian subcontinent.
On the Oceanography side, The Indonesian Throughflow region (ITF) (input = −10.7 to −18.7 Sv; output= −2.6 Sv to −9.8 Sv) has a significant role in the Coral Triangle area with its functions such as regulating the global ocean circulation, the climate system, and the ecosystem sustainability, so the region retains maximum marine ...