Figure 6
The temperature-salinity (T-S) along ITF pathways, its fate, and the ITF fractions in the Indian Ocean. A new pathway of the ITF water in the Indian Ocean associated with the South Java Current (blue arrow), the ITF water following the South Equatorial Current (SEC, green arrow), the ITF feeding into the Leeuwin Current (LC, red arrow). (i) The T-S as ITF water from the Indonesian exit passages (10–15°S, 115°E), (ii) T-S within the South East Tropical Indian Ocean eddies (10.5–15.5°S, 110.5–114.5°E), (iii) T-S off Sunda Strait (6.5–10.5°S, 100.5–107.5°E), (iv) T-S off Sumatra (0–6.5°S, 95.5–105.5°E), (v) T-S parent water north of Sumatra (0–3.5°N, 95.5–100.5°E), (vi) T-S mid-SEC pathway (10.5–15.5°S, 70.5–90.5°E), (vii) T-S in the mid-Mozambique Channel (15.5–23.5°S, 36.5–45.5°E), (viii) T-S parent water south of Mozambique Channel (22.5°S, 42.5–43.5°E), (ix) T-S ITF water feeding LC within the Eastern Gyral Current (11.5–15.5°S, 115.5–119.5°E), (x) T-S off Western Australian Coast (23–26.5°S, 113°E) and (xi) T-S parent water south off Western Australian Coast (26.5°S, 112.5°E). Each inset shows temperature (°C; y axis) and salinity (psu; x axis), with ML: the mixed layer, TL: the thermocline layer; IL: the intermediate layer and the ITF fractions are listed (blue: the Global Surface Warming period, pink; the Global Surface Warming Slowdown period), (Tables S2–S4). T-S parent water is likely as the fate of ITF water profile within that route.
