Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10109-z, published online 08 May 2019.

The original version of this Article contained errors in Figs. 7 and 8 in which the y-axes labels were omitted. In Fig. 7, the y-axes labels on both panels now read ‘SSS tendency (pss/month)’. In Fig. 8, the y-axes labels on both panels now read ‘Horizontal advective tendency (pss/month)’.

In the original version of Fig. 10, the title incorrectly read ‘Meridional SSS profile along Makassar Strait’. The correct version replaces ‘SSS’ with ‘SLA’.

Finally, the second sentence of the fourth paragraph of the ‘Data’ section of the Methods originally incorrectly read ‘The product is available through https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/OSTIA-UKMO-L4-GLOB-v2.0.’ The correct version replaced the web link with ‘https://www.catds.fr/Products/Available-products-from-CEC-OS/CEC-Locean-L3-Debiased-v3’.

This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.