Sea Surface Currents and Salinity Near the Maritime Continent

NASA High-End Computing resources enabled a modeling study of the Indonesian Throughflow, the only low-latitude gateway for export of large amounts of heat and freshwater from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean. The Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) atmospheric model coupled with Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation (MITgcm) ocean model was run for 14 months at a horizontal resolution of ~6–7 kilometers (km) for the atmosphere and ~2–4 km for the ocean to better resolve the flow through these narrow passages..

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