<正> 前言 长期以来,海洋学界为阐明黑潮与陆架水的混合机制,长年累月进行着现场调查与研究。本文在此提出应用卫星红外信息,能够直观、快速、大范围和同步获取作为其中一个主要环节的表层水系配置。这至少对东海表层水来说,进一步认识对马暖流及其分支黄海暖流的主体是源于黑潮水系和陆架水的混合水,而不是日本九州西南海域分出来的黑潮水,有着重要的意义。

This study is concentrated on the mixing mechanism of the Kuro-shio water with the shelf water, which is paid great attention to by oceanographers. The stretching of the recognition range for the target investigated is achieved by the decision processing of the infrared information from the NOAA series satellites-the digital contrast stretching using the mathematical model, and through false color density slicing and D/A conversion. The mixing region of the Kuroshio water with the shelf water, interpreted from this study can be divided into three sub-regions: the strong mixing, the weak mixing and the transition mixing.This point of view is of scientific and economic significance for the further recognition that the Tsushima warm Current and its branch-Yellow Sea Warm Current is mainly from the mixing water of Kuroshio water and the shelf water, not from the Kurothrough the south-west of the Kyushu.