North-south difference of water mass properties across the Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

WANG Weibo; PAN Aijun; EDI Kusmanto; MUH Hasanudin; DENY Sutisna

doi:10.1007/s13131-018-1282-5

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WANG Weibo, PAN Aijun, EDI Kusmanto, MUH Hasanudin, DENY Sutisna. North-south difference of water mass properties across the Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2018, 37(12): 1-8. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1282-5

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WANG Weibo, PAN Aijun, EDI Kusmanto, MUH Hasanudin, DENY Sutisna. North-south difference of water mass properties across the Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2018, 37(12): 1-8. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1282-5

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North-south difference of water mass properties across the Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1282-5

1.
Ocean Dynamic Laboratory, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, China
2.
Research Center for Oceanography, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jakarta 14430, Indonesia

Received Date: 2017-06-15

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Abstract

Two field observations were conducted around the Lembeh Strait in September 2015 and 2016, respectively. Evidences indicate that seawater around the Lembeh Strait is consisted of North Pacific Tropical Water (NPTW), North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW), North Pacific Tropical Intermediate Water (NPTIW) and Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW). Around the Lembeh Strait, there exist some north-south differences in terms of water mass properties. NPTIW is only found in the southern Lembeh Strait. Water mass with the salinity of 34.6 is only detected at 200-240 m between NPTW and NPTIW in the southern Lembeh Strait, and results from the process of mixing between the saltier water transported from the South Pacific Ocean and the lighter water from the North Pacific Ocean and Sulawesi Sea. According to the analysis on mixing layer depth, it is indicated that there exists an onshore surface current in the northern Lembeh Strait and the surface current in the Lembeh Strait is southward. These dramatic differences of water masses demonstrate that the less water exchange has been occurred between the north and south of Lembeh Strait. In 2015, the positive wind stress curl covering the northern Lembeh Strait induces the shoaling of thermocline and deepening of NPIW, which show that the north-south difference of air-sea system is possible of inducing north-south differences of seawater properties.
- water mass,
- Lembeh Strait,
- north-south difference

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