New progress of the Kuroshio Current System research by using ADEOS-OCTS Original Research Article

The operation period of the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS) was rather short, new progress of the Kuroshio Current System research has been made, by use of data of the Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner (OCTS). One example is finding of unusual behavior of the Kuroshio Current System from the winter of 1996 to the summer of 1997, and it has led to a suggestion of a new dynamic mechanism of Topographically Forced Alternating-Jet Instability (AJI). Detailed paper is referred to Toba and Murakami (1998).