Fig. 1

Bathymetry of the Malacca Strait and its adjacent sea, and the distribution of tide gauge stations(S1~S10)"

Fig. 2

Unstructured triangular grids of computational domain: (a) grids of total domain in model, and (b) grids of main study domain, which is divided into three parts (domains Ⅰ, Ⅱ, and Ⅲ) for discussion In order to display the flow or current fields more clearly, boundaries of domains Ⅰ, Ⅱ, and Ⅲ will not be showed in Fig. 6~13."

Tab. 1

Information of experiments"

Tab. 2

Information of tide gauge stations"

Fig. 3

Verification of tidal height. The dots represent observed water level, and the lines represent modeled water level"

Fig. 4

Cotidal chart of the M2 tide in case 1. White line is the phase of the M2 tide"

Fig. 5

Tidal ellipse of the M2 tide in case 1. The Red color denotes anticlockwise, and blue denotes clockwise"

Fig. 6

Typical surface flow field of the Malacca Strait during spring tide in case 1: (a) maximum flood tide, (b) flood slack tide, (c) maximum ebb tide, and (d) ebb slack tide"

Fig. 7

Diagram of Euler residual current in case 1: (a) surface, and (b) bottom"

Fig. 8

Diagram of residual currents with different wind speeds during northeast monsoon in case 2"

Fig. 9

Background wind field during inter-monsoon month in case 2: (a) during spring tide (April 13, 2006), and (b) during neap tide (April 20, 2006). It is the daily average wind field"

Fig. 10

Diagrams of residual current during inter-monsoon month in case 2"

Fig. 11

Diagrams of residual currents with different wind speeds during southwest monsoon in case 2"

Fig. 12

Diagrams of residual currents with different wind speeds during northeast monsoon in case 3"

Fig. 13

Diagrams of residual currents with different wind speeds during southwest monsoon in case 3"