Table 1. Field studies providing data of monthly-averaged currents in the surface-well mixed layer for the South-East Asian archipelago.

Author	Data source	Data Period
ARGO (2013)	Ocean drifters	2000–2013
Cravatte et al. [43]	ShipbornADCP	1985–2007
Condie [42]	NCEP-NCAR40-year Reanalysis dataset	1982–1997
Forbes and Church [44]	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	1978–1979
Liang et al.[45]	ShipbornADCP	1997–2001
Manh and Yanagi [46]
Mayer et al. [47]	Data of the World Ocean Atlas	1970–2006
Metzger et al.[48]	Digital Bathymetric Data Base 2 (DBDB2)	2004–2006
Potemra and Qu [49]	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Schiller et al.[13]	ARGO data	1992–2006

ADCP = Acoustic Doppler Current meter.