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Application of synchronous meteorological satellite data to the study of time dependent sea surface temperature changes along the boundary of the Gulf Stream
Author(s) -
Legeckis R.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/gl002i010p00435
Subject(s) - geology , satellite , equator , gulf stream , sea surface temperature , eddy , current (fluid) , kelvin wave , thermal , remote sensing , thermal infrared , infrared , geodesy , environmental science , geophysics , meteorology , climatology , latitude , oceanography , turbulence , geography , physics , optics , astronomy
Thermal infrared imagery from the Synchronous Meteorological Satellite (SMS), located above the equator at 75°W, was used to produce a time‐lapse film of the Gulf Stream off Florida. Northward propagating cyclonic eddies with a speed of 39 cm/sec, spacial scale of 265 km, and low frequency (ω/f <0.15), where ω is a wave frequency and f is the Coriolis parameter, were detected at the inshore edge of the current's boundary. These results demonstrate an application of the SMS to the study of time dependent sea surface thermal patterns.