• ITF Pathways
  Inflow Passages:
  Makassaer Strait (75%),
  Lifamatola Passage,
  & Karimata Strait
  
  Outflow passages:
  Lombok Strait,
  Ombai Strait,
  Timor passage,
  Sunda Strait,
  Bali Strait,
  Alas Strait,
  Sape Strait.
• ITF MAKASSAR
  Mooring deployment 2009
  in the Makassar Strait
  Using R/V Geomarin III
  maintained by MGI/Indonesia
  
  Chief Scientist: Dwi Susanto
• ITF MAKASSAR
  Makassar Strait Velocity
  Seasonal mean (left)
  Max velocity at 120 m
  
  Vertical profiles (right)
  From Jan. 2004 to Jul. 2009
  Northward intrusion Kelvin
  waves (deep blue).
  
  Susanto et al. JGR (2012).
• ITF KARIMATA
  South China Sea- Indonesian
  Seas Transport/Exchange
  (SITE) via Karimata &
  Sunda Straits - Java Sea
  
  Vertical velocity profile (right)
  From Dec. 2007 to Nov. 2008
  
  Susanto et al. (2013).
• Internal Waves
  SAR Images of internal
  waves in the Lombok Strait
  propagating northward,
  and/or southward (left)
  
  Internal waves in the
  Lombok Strait, observed
  by dual frequency Fishfinder
  Amplitude: ~100 meters (right)
  Period: ~12 minutes
  
  Susanto et al. (2005).
• Papua Glaciers
  1 out of 3 tropical glaciers
  The only tropical glaciers in
  the Western Pacific Warm Pool
  Ice cores to reveal
  climate history in the Pacific
  Expedition: May-June 2010,
  
  Collaborators:
  Lonnie G. Thompson (Ohio)
  Ellen Mosley-Thompson
  BMKG-Indonesia
  Freeport McMoran - Indonesia
  

ON THE MEDIA

Karimata/Sunda Exp. (MetroTV)

Papua Glaciers (MetroTV)

Throughflow Animation

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