Brief description
INSTANT: A New International Array to Measure the Indonesian Throughflow. The INSTANT field program (International Nusantara Stratification And Transport) began in August 2003 and consists of a 3-year deployment of an array of moorings and coastal pressure gauges that will directly measure sea level and full depth in situ velocity, temperature, and salinity of the ITF. For the first time, simultaneous, multipassage, multiyear measurements will be available, and allow the magnitude and properties of the interocean transport between the Pacific and Indian Oceans to be unambiguously known. The array will also provide an unprecedented data set revealing how this complex and fascinating region responds to local and remote forcing at many timescales never before well resolved. Moorings were located at the following locations: (115 45.48, 8 26.77) (115 53.77, 8 24.56) (122 58.36, 11 31.76) (122 57.40, 11 22.19) (122 51.5, 11 16.6) (122 46.8, 11 9.67) (125 32.26, 8 32.33) (125 2.26, 8 24.04)Lineage
Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeeded
Statement: see http://www.marine.csiro.au/~cow074/instantpub.htm
Notes
CreditFive nations are participating in INSTANT: Indonesia, France, the Netherlands, the USA and Australia. The Indonesian Ministry of Marine and Fisheries is sponsoring the Indonesian involvement.
Credit
Cowley
Cowley
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Heaney
Heaney
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Wijffels
Wijffels
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Pender
Pender
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Sprintall
Sprintall
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Kawamoto
Kawamoto
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Molcard
Molcard
Data time period: 08/08/2003 to
text: westlimit=110; southlimit=-15; eastlimit=130; northlimit=0
Subjects
ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) |
CTD |
CTDs (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers) |
Coastal Waters (Global) | Indonesia Coast |
Current Meters/Profilers |
Current direction in the water body |
Current speed in the water body |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Fresh Water Flux |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Gyres |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Thermohaline Circulation |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Turbulence |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Vorticity |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Water Masses |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Heat Budget | Diffusion |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Heat Budget | Evaporation |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Heat Budget | Heat Flux |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Ocean Mixed Layer |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Potential Temperature |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Thermocline |
Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature |
Earth Science | Oceans | Salinity/Density | Salt Transport |
Eastward current velocity in the water body |
International Nusantara Stratification and Transport program |
Northward current velocity in the water body |
Practical salinity of the water body |
Pressure (measured variable) in the water body exerted by overlying sea water and any medium above it |
Pressure (measured variable) in the water body exerted by overlying sea water only |
Regional Seas | Java Sea |
Research Voyage: SS 06/2003 |
Temperature of the water body |
Upward current velocity in the water body |
XBTs (Expendable Bathythermographs) |
bathythermographs |
current profilers |
oceans |
research vessel |
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Other Information
INSTANT: 'International Nusantara Stratification And Transport' mooring dataset, 2003-2006 (Link to Data Access Portal record)
Identifiers
- Local : Anzlic Identifier: ANZCW0306006958
- Local : Marlin Record Number: 6958
- global : 2a08c690-2aef-408e-b551-4c9e4cdf6762