2000 Volume 44 Pages 927-932
The aim of this study is to analyze the variability of sea surface temperature (SST) in the month of May 1990-1994 at the Kuroshio/Oyashio frontal areas. SST variations are examined using a combination of weather conditions and offshore water-mass distribution. A series of ocean thermal imagery (37-image) from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) are analyzed to study influence of moving fronts on the coastal thermal environment. Multiple regression analyses are used to understand the relationship between independent variables (weather variation components and offshore condition) and coastal sea surface temperature (SST) as dependent variable. The regression results provide a good correlation between the predicted value and in-situ SST. Strong impact of variation in offshore circumstances on coastal SST distribution is clearly noticed especially at the edge of warm tongues and streamers of the of the Kuroshio flowing northward.
