Indonesian Throughflow Monitoring in Makassar Strait

After the successful INSTANT Program in 2003-2006, all moorings in the Indonesian Seas have been recovered. Only single mooring in the Makassar Strait that has been redeployed up to now. The first turn around recovery and redeployement was carried out in July 2009 and the next turn around is planned for July 2011.

Figure 1. Map of Indonesian throughflow pathways. Makassar Strait mooring location (red arrow). Other on-going field measurements are at Karimata and Sunda Straits (red boxes)

Figure 2. Mooring configuration in the Makassar Strait