The Mindanao Current (MC) is a southward current in the western Pacific Ocean that transports mass and freshwater between ocean basins. It is a low-latitude western boundary current that follows the eastern coast of the Philippine island group and its namesake, Mindanao.

The Mindanao Current (MC), a low-latitude western boundary current in the Pacific Ocean, plays an important role in heat and freshwater transport to the western Pacific warm pool and the Indian Ocean.

May 24, 2014 · Based on 2 year ADCP measurements east of Mindanao Island, the mean structure and variability of the MC/MUC are investigated. A stable southward Mindanao Current (MC) exists in the upper 600 m with the velocity core at 100 m.

Apr 15, 1991 · The Mindanao Current was found to be a narrow, southward-flowing current along the eastward side of the southern Philippine Islands, extending from 14°N to the south end of Mindanao near 6°N, where it then separates from the coast and penetrates into the Celebes Sea.

Jan 25, 2018 · Seasonality of the Mindanao Current (MC)/Undercurrent (MUC) system is investigated using moored acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) measurements off Mindanao (8°N, 127.05°E) and ocean model simulations.

The Mindanao Current was found to be a narrow, southward-flowing current along the eastward side of the southern Philippine Islands, extending from 14øN to the south end of Mindanao near 6øN, where it then separates from the coast and penetrates into the Celebes Sea.

The westward flowing North Equatorial Current (NEC) runs into the Philippine coast and bifurcates into the northward Kuroshio and the southward Mindanao Current (MC).

Jun 1, 2020 · Historical observations have documented prominent changes of the Mindanao Current (MC) during El Niño events, yet a systematic understanding of how El Niño modulates the MC is still lacking.

Jun 5, 2019 · Here we attempt to estimate how much the Mindanao Current (MC) has changed over the past decades using 10 ocean state estimate products. The multidecadal trends of the MC volume transport since 1961, 1980, and 1993 were rather weak.

Aug 1, 2017 · Autonomous underwater Spray gliders made repeat transects of the Mindanao Current (MC), a low-latitude western boundary current in the western tropical North Pacific Ocean, from September 2009 to October 2013.