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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 ocean currents surrounding the Philippines: (1) Mindanao Current, (2) Mindanao Undercurrent (dotted to indicate that it is deeper than the other currents shown), (3) Mindanao Eddy, (4) North Equatorial Current, (5) Kuroshio current, (6) the beginnings and feeder currents of the Kuroshio (gradated to indicate that it strengthens to the North), (7) Indonesian Throughflow, and (8) North ...
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 ...
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 ]
The sea is about 480 km (300 mi) wide, covering an area of about 610 thousand km 2 (240,000 sq mi). Its deepest point is the Timor Trough (which some geologists consider is the south-eastern extension of the Java Trench , but others view as a foreland trough to the Timor Island "mountain range"), located in the northern part of the sea, which ...
Janet Sprintall is an Australian -born oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She specializes in inter-basin exchanges, and in particular in the Indonesian throughflow [ 1 ] and dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current through the Drake passage. Sprintall studied barrier layers for her doctoral research, [ 2 ] and as of 2016 ...
Coral Triangle. The Coral Triangle (CT) is a roughly triangular area in the tropical waters around the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste. This area contains at least 500 species of reef-building corals in each ecoregion. [3] The Coral Triangle is located between the Pacific and Indian oceans ...
Boundary current. The main ocean currents involved with the North Pacific Gyre. Boundary currents are ocean currents with dynamics determined by the presence of a coastline, and fall into two distinct categories: western boundary currents and eastern boundary currents.