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Supplementary material to “New Surveys of a Branch of the Indonesian Throughflow”
27 July 2010
R. Dwi Susanto, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York
Guohong Fang, First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao, China
Indroyono Soesilo, Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research, Jakarta, Indonesia
Quanan Zheng, University of Maryland, College Park
Fangli Qiao and Zexun Wei, First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao, China
Budi Sulistyo, Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research, Jakarta, Indonesia
Citation:
Susanto, R. D., G. Fang, I. Soesilo, Q. Zheng, F. Qiao, Z. Wei, and B. Sulistyo (2010), New surveys of a branch of the Indonesian Throughflow, Eos Trans. AGU, 91(30), 261–263. [Full Article (pdf)]
Fig. S1. Trajectories of sea surface drifters of the Global Drifter Program from August 1988 to June 2007. The trajectories clearly show that a current intrudes into the South China Sea through the Luzon Strait and forms a throughflow branch through Karimata Strait (between Sumatra and Kalimantan/Borneo) toward Java Sea and Banda Sea. In fact, the total number of drifters that pass through the Karimata Strait is higher than those that pass via the main throughflow pathway of Makassar Strait. The drifter data is a courtesy of Mayra Pazos, NOAA-AOML.