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The location and topography of the channels that make up the ITF are shown in the Figure. Lombok Strait is 300m deep and roughly 35 km wide and the currents vary between 0.286 m/s (0.6 mi/hr) eastward to 0.67 m/s westward and average 0.25 m/s westward. Currents in Ombai vary between 0.12 m/s eastward to 0.16 m/s westward, averaging 0.11 m/s westward and are funneled within the 1250m deep and 35 km wide passage. Timor passage, which is 1890 m deep by 160 km wide, is the widest of the exit pathways and averages only 0.02 m/s. From 2004–2006, 11 [[mooring (oceanography)|moorings]] were deployed across the entrance and exit regions of the ITF and were positioned to accurately measure each passage’s contribution as part of the International Nusantara Stratification and Transport (INSTANT) program. Flow in through Makassar (11.6 Sv, 1 [[Sverdrup|Sv]] = 10<sup>6</sup> m³/s) and Lifamatola (1.1 Sv) sums to 12.7 Sv. Total outflow transport corresponds to 15.0 Sv (varying from 10.7 to 18.7 Sv) and is made up of Lombok (2.6 Sv), Ombai (4.9 Sv) and Timor (7.5 Sv) contributions.<ref>[http://www.marine.csiro.au/~cow074/SPRINTALL_JGR.pdf Sprintall, J., S.E. Wijffels, R. Molcard, and I. Jaya, Direct estimates of the Indonesian Throughflow entering the Indian Ocean: 2004-2006, Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 114, 19, 2009.]</ref> Heat Transport of the Indonesian Throughflow is 1.087 PW (1 PW=10<sup>15</sup> Watt).<ref>[http://www.igu.in/10-4/2vivek.pdf “Heat transport through Indonesian throughflow by Vivek Kumar Pandey and Avinash Chand Pandey in J. Ind. Geophys. Union ( October 2006 ) Vol.10, No.4, pp.273-277”]. (PDF) ITF heat transport result from POM Model.</ref>. Turbulence Kinetic Energy (TKE) is of the order of 10<sup>-3</sup> m<sup>2</sup>s<sup>-2</sup> in the upper layer whereas it is 10<sup>-4</sup> m<sup>2</sup>s<sup>-2</sup>
s-2 in the middle layer. Corresponding values of TKE dissipation rate are of the order of 10<sup>-6</sup> m<sup>2</sup>s<sup>-3</sup> and 10<sup>-8</sup> m<sup>2</sup>s<sup>-3</sup> which indicate that this ITF archipelagoes region is a highly turbulent and a high heat dissipative in nature.<ref>[https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.531.3839&rep=rep1&type=pdf “Turbulent kinetic energy and its dissipation rate of the
Indonesian throughflow region via Lombok and Savu Straits by Vivek Kumar Pandey and Avinash Chand Pandey in J. Ind. Geophys. Union ( April 2007 ) Vol.11, No.2, pp.117-122”]. (PDF) Indonesian Throughflow high turbulent in nature and its heat dissipation characteristics analyzed at Lombok and Savu Straits of it by POM model.</ref>
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