5. Already the Day After Tomorrow?
Bogi Hansen, Svein Østerhus, Detlef Quadfasel,William Turrell
SCIENCE VOL AUGUST 2004

10. Annual mean sea surface temperature [SST]
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
Monsoon moisture
Warm pool
Annual mean sea surface temperature [SST]

11. Sill depths [meters] in red [Gordon et al 2003]; Seas in Green
Sulawesi
1350-m
2800-m
Halmahera
Maluku
580-m
makassar
1940-m
Seram
680-m
Java
Banda
Flores m
300-m
Timor
Sill depths [meters] in red [Gordon et al 2003]; Seas in Green

13. X-equator flow= 10, 13 Sv

16. 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).