G1SST images clearly show the enhancement of a colder (23.5 °C) water patch during strong tidal forcing, between 29-SEP and 3-OCT 2015. The patch is located just west of a warmer water plume that exits the Sape Strait producing a local... more
G1SST images clearly show the enhancement of a colder (23.5 °C) water patch during strong tidal forcing, between 29-SEP and 3-OCT 2015. The patch is located just west of a warmer water plume that exits the Sape Strait producing a local surface temperature gradient in the Sumba Strait. Concurrent ISWs are seen departing from the same location and crossing the Sumba Strait. Both ISWs generation and cold patch enhancement by tidal mixing occurred in the same location and on the same day. Strong internal tide activity could be linked to both phenomena.
