D. Quadfasel et al., THE CIRCULATION IN THE SOURCE AREA OF THE SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT INTHE EASTERN INDIAN-OCEAN, J GEO RES-O, 101(C5), 1996, pp. 12483-12488
Direct current measurements and geostrophic transport estimates, using
hydrographic data collected in the eastern Indian Ocean, reveal that
during October 1987 the South Equatorial Current carried about 22 x 10
(6) m(3)/S in the upper 500 m of the water column. The Indonesian thro
ughflow from the Pacific Ocean supplied about half of that transport;
the other half came from the recirculation of the southern hemisphere
subtropical gyre. The mixing of the Indian Central Water and the Austr
alasian Mediterranean Water in the thermocline occurred mainly off the
northwest Australian shelf due to enhanced mesoscale current variabil
ity in that area.