Multidecadal Change of the Mindanao Current: Is There a Robust Trend?

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (12) ◽  
pp. 6755-6764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Duan ◽  
Yuanlong Li ◽  
Fan Wang ◽  
Zhaohui Chen
Keyword(s):  
Mindanao Current

scholarly journals Mindanao Current/Undercurrent measured by a subsurface mooring

2014 ◽  
Vol 119 (6) ◽  
pp. 3617-3628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linlin Zhang ◽  
Dunxin Hu ◽  
Shijian Hu ◽  
Fan Wang ◽  
Fujun Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mindanao Current

scholarly journals Spatial distribution of turbulent diapycnal mixing along the Mindanao current inferred from rapid-sampling Argo floats

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying He ◽  
Jianing Wang ◽  
Fan Wang ◽  
Toshiyuki Hibiya
Keyword(s):  
Turbulent Mixing ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Water Mass ◽  
Strong Mixing ◽  
Western Boundary ◽  
Diapycnal Mixing ◽  
The North ◽  
Rapid Sampling ◽  
Mindanao Current ◽  
The North Pacific

AbstractThe Mindanao Current (MC) bridges the North Pacific low-latitude western boundary current system region and the Indonesian Seas by supplying the North Pacific waters to the Indonesian Throughflow. Although the previous study speculated that the diapycnal mixing along the MC might be strong on the basis of the water mass analysis of the gridded climatologic dataset, the real spatial distribution of diapycnal mixing along the MC has remained to be clarified. We tackle this question here by applying a finescale parameterization to temperature and salinity profiles obtained using two rapid-sampling profiling Argo floats that drifted along the MC. The western boundary (WB) region close to the Mindanao Islands and the Sangihe Strait are the two mixing hotspots along the MC, with energy dissipation rate ε and diapycnal diffusivity Kρ enhanced up to ~ 10–6 W kg−1 and ~ 10–3 m2 s−1, respectively. Except for the above two mixing hotspots, the turbulent mixing along the MC is mostly weak, with ε and Kρ to be 10–11–10–9 W kg−1 and 10–6–10–5 m2 s−1, respectively. Strong mixing in the Sangihe Strait can be basically attributed to the existence of internal tides, whereas strong mixing in the WB region suggests the existence of internal lee waves. We also find that water mass transformation along the MC mainly occurs in the Sangihe Strait where the water masses are subjected to strong turbulent mixing during a long residence time.

scholarly journals Mindanao Current/Undercurrent in an eddy-resolving GCM

2012 ◽  
Vol 117 (C6) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Tangdong Qu ◽  
Tzu-Ling Chiang ◽  
Chau-Ron Wu ◽  
Pierre Dutrieux ◽  
Dunxin Hu
Keyword(s):  
Mindanao Current

scholarly journals Volume Transport Variability in the Western Equatorial Pacific and its Relations to Halmahera Throughflow

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlin Chrisye Wattimena ◽  
Agus Saleh Atmadipoera ◽  
Mulia Purba ◽  
I Wayan Nurjaya ◽  
Fadli Syamsudin
Keyword(s):  
General Circulation ◽  
Circulation Model ◽  
Ocean General Circulation Model ◽  
Volume Transport ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Equatorial Pacific Ocean ◽  
Western Equatorial Pacific ◽  
North Equatorial Counter Current ◽  
Mindanao Current ◽  
Transport Volume

This study investigates the coherency of volume transport between Halmahera throughflow and current major system in the western equatorial Pacific Ocean (Mindanao Current – MC, New Guinea Coastal/Under Current – NGCC/NGCUC, and North Equatorial Counter Current – NECC). The validated daily ocean general circulation model datasets of INDESO (2010-2014) were used in this study. The results showed that the estimated average transport volume was 25.6 Sv flowing southward through MC, 34.5 Sv flowing eastward through NECC, 18.3 Sv flowing northwestward through NGCC/NGCUC, and 2.5 Sv flowing southward through the Halmahera Sea. The variability of volume transport was dominated by intraseasonal, semiannual, and annual time-scales. The increased transport of NECC corresponded to the intensification of MC and NGCC/NGCUC transports. NGCC/ NGCUC significantly controlled the South Pacific water inflow into the Halmahera Sea because of the positively high correlation between NGCC/NGCUC transport and Halmahera throughflow transport.

Seasonal variability of the Mindanao Current determined using mooring observations from 2010 to 2014

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 787-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fujun Wang ◽  
Qingye Wang ◽  
Dunxin Hu ◽  
Fangguo Zhai ◽  
Shijian Hu
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Variability ◽  
Mindanao Current

scholarly journals Seasonality of the Mindanao Current/Undercurrent System

2018 ◽  
Vol 123 (2) ◽  
pp. 1105-1122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiuping Ren ◽  
Yuanlong Li ◽  
Fan Wang ◽  
Lina Song ◽  
Chuanyu Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mindanao Current

Origins of the Kuroshio and Mindanao Current

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Rudnick ◽  
Luca Centurioni ◽  
Bruce Cornuelle ◽  
Julie McClean ◽  
Peter Niler
Keyword(s):  
Mindanao Current ◽  
The Kuroshio
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