An overview of 10-year observation of the South China Sea branch of the Pacific to Indian Ocean throughflow at the Karimata Strait

Wei Zexun; Li Shujiang; Susanto R. Dwi; Wang Yonggang; Fan Bin; Xu Tengfei; Sulistiyo Budi; Adi T. Rameyo; Setiawan Agus; Kuswardani A.; Fang Guohong

doi:10.1007/s13131-019-1410-x

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Wei Zexun, Li Shujiang, Susanto R. Dwi, Wang Yonggang, Fan Bin, Xu Tengfei, Sulistiyo Budi, Adi T. Rameyo, Setiawan Agus, Kuswardani A., Fang Guohong. An overview of 10-year observation of the South China Sea branch of the Pacific to Indian Ocean throughflow at the Karimata Strait[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019, 38(4): 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1410-x

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Wei Zexun, Li Shujiang, Susanto R. Dwi, Wang Yonggang, Fan Bin, Xu Tengfei, Sulistiyo Budi, Adi T. Rameyo, Setiawan Agus, Kuswardani A., Fang Guohong. An overview of 10-year observation of the South China Sea branch of the Pacific to Indian Ocean throughflow at the Karimata Strait[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019, 38(4): 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1410-x

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Wei Zexun, Li Shujiang, Susanto R. Dwi, Wang Yonggang, Fan Bin, Xu Tengfei, Sulistiyo Budi, Adi T. Rameyo, Setiawan Agus, Kuswardani A., Fang Guohong. An overview of 10-year observation of the South China Sea branch of the Pacific to Indian Ocean throughflow at the Karimata Strait[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019, 38(4): 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1410-x

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An overview of 10-year observation of the South China Sea branch of the Pacific to Indian Ocean throughflow at the Karimata Strait

doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1410-x

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First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao 266061, China;Laboratory for Regional Oceanography and Numerical Modeling, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao 266237, China
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Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA;Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology, Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung 40116, Indonesia
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Agency for Marine & Fisheries Research, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Jakarta 14430, Indonesia

Received Date: 2018-06-03

Abstract

Abstract

Besides the Indonesian throughflow (ITF), the South China Sea throughflow (SCSTF) also contributes to the water transport from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean. However, this South China Sea (SCS) branch at the Karimata Strait is poorly observed until 2007, even though its importance has been suggested by numerical studies for decades. In this paper, we review the nearly 10-year field measurement in the Karimata Strait by the execution of the projects of "SCS-Indonesian Seas Transport/Exchange (SITE) and Impacts on Seasonal Fish Migration" and "The Transport, Internal Waves and Mixing in the Indonesian Throughflow regions (TIMIT) and Impacts on Marine Ecosystem", which extend the observations from the western Indonesian seas to the east to include the main channels of the ITF, is introduced. Some major achievements from these projects are summarized.
- South China Sea,
- Indonesian seas,
- Indonesian throughflow (ITF),
- Karimata Strait,
- South China Sea throughflow

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