Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

A Maluku Sea intermediate western boundary current connecting Pacific Ocean circulation to the Indonesian Throughflow

  • Dongliang Yuan,
  • Xueli Yin,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Corry Corvianawatie,
  • Zheng Wang,
  • Yao Li,
  • Ya Yang,
  • Xiaoyue Hu,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Shuwen Tan,
  • Dewi Surinati,
  • Adi Purwandana,
  • Adhitya Kusuma Wardana,
  • Mochamad Furqon Azis Ismail,
  • Asep Sandra Budiman,
  • Ahmad Bayhaqi,
  • Praditya Avianto,
  • Priyadi Dwi Santoso,
  • Edi Kusmanto,
  • Dirhamsyah,
  • Zainal Arifin,
  • Larry J. Pratt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29617-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Here the authors use in situ mooring data in the Maluku Channel and the Lifamatola Passage of the Indonesian seas to show that a western boundary current transports Antarctic water from the South Pacific to the Indian Ocean.