Satellite Thermal Monitoring of Storm Flood Spreading around Kuroshio Flow

Abstract

This work concerns a satellite thermal monitoring of storm flood spreading around the Kuroshio flow. Some specific variations of the thermal pattern off the Shirahama Oceanographic Observatory are introduced in order to demonstrate what pattern can be taken as an effect of the storm floods to the thermal patterns between the coast and the Kuroshio flow. Referring to the observed data obtained at the offshore tower station, the satellite thermal pattern can locally be well adjusted. For the author's convenience, the APT picture (automatic picture transform) is utilized in this work.