白浜海象観測所の現況と観測成果について

Abstract

It has gone fifteen years since established the Shirahama Oceanographic Tower Station, Shirahaina Oceanographic Observatory, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, KyotoUniversity in Tanabe Bay in 1960. During the period, some basic observations of waves, tides, currents and mixing of sea water have been carried out in order to obtain the cont-inuous records of air-sea-land interaction phenomena of the neighbouring coastal area aswell as Tanabe Bay. In this report, a recent status quo of the observatory and some inter-esting results of observation are briefly described in which some recent results of observa-tion of oceanic front developing by the mouth of Ku Channel in addition to the mainresults of research activities are included.