The current records listed below have been filtered and subsampled at one value per day. The tides and higher frequencies have been removed. CMDAC was not able to obtain the unfiltered data. The current meters described as "unknown" below were Aanderaas and Mors current meters. CMDAC has no information as to which was which.

Related publications

Fieux, M., P. Andrie, P. Delecluse, A.G. Ilahude, A. Kartavtseff, F. Mantisi, R. Molcard and J.C. Swallow (1994): Measurements within the Pacific-Indian Oceans throughflow region. Deep-Sea Research I, 41(7), 1091-1130.

Molcard, R., M.Fieux, J.C.Swallow, A.G.Ilahude and J.Banjarnahor (1994): Low frequency variability of the currents in Indonesian channels (Savu-Roti and Roti-Ashmore Reef). Deep-Sea Research I, 41(11/12), 1643-1661.

Molcard, R., M. Fieux and A.G. Ilahude (1996): The Indo-Pacific Throughflow in the Timor Passage. J. Geophys. Res., 101(C5), 12411-12420.

Fieux, M., R. Molcard and A.G. Ilahude (1996): Geostrophic transport of the Pacific-Indian Oceans Throughflow. J. Geophys. Res., 101(C5), 12421-12432.

Coatanoan, C., N. Metzl, M. Fieux and B. Coste (1999): Seasonal water mass distribution in the Indonesian Throughflow entering the Indian Ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 104(C9), 20801-20826.

Format of the current records

These files have been compressed with the ZIP compression utility. After downloading them, you will need to expand them. On a PC, WinZip or Pkunzip will do the job. Other utilities are available for the Unix and Macintosh environments. After expansion, you will have ascii files in OSU's stranger format.

The stranger format begins with several lines of header information that are meant to be machine-readable. They contain a Fortran format specification that will be useful in reading the file, a pointer to the first line of data, and a description of the data. Each line of the current record itself contains the time of the sample, the values recorded, and a line count.

Please be aware that end-of-line in these files is a carriage-return plus line-feed (the PC convention). This means that in a Unix environment (where a single line-feed serves as end-of-line) you may want to remove the carriage-returns.