海の研究 第12巻 第1 59-67頁 (2003)

1992年3月上旬に発生した駿河湾の急潮

Kyucho in Suruga Bay on early March 1992

 

稲葉栄生・安田訓啓・川畑広紀・勝間田高明

Hideo Inaba, Kuniaki Yasuda, Koki Kawabata and Takaaki Katsumata

 

Abstract

On early March, 1992, a steep temperature rise of about 5.5 for 5.5 days was observed in the sea at the eastern part of the mouth of Suruga Bay and at the western part of the bay head. The warm water in the sea at the eastern part of the bay mouth was influenced by an intrusion of the Kuroshio warm water. The intruded warm water moved cyclonically along the bay coast. The propagation speed of the warm water estimated from the time lag of the steep temperature rise and the distance between two mooring stations is about 0.79 m/sec. The estimated speed is similar to that of the coastal density current in a rotating fluid, 0.93 m/sec, theoretically derived by the same method as Kubokawa and Hanawa(1984). As the similar event was found out in Sagami Bay and was called Kyucho, therefore, the steep temperature rise in this case can be called Kyucho in Suruga Bay. The intrusion of the Kuroshio warm water into Suruga Bay as Kyucho in this case is related to the northward shift of the Kuroshio path. This northward shift can be related to the occurrence of small scale meander of the Kuroshio off Irosaki. The sea level changes in the bay are seen to have a weak effect by the temperature changes induced by the Kyucho.

 

Key Words: Kyucho, steep temperature riseSuruga Bay, coastal density current, northward shift of the Kuroshio path, sea level change

 

    

 19923月上旬,駿河湾口東部および同湾奥西部沿岸の2係留観測地点で,約5.5日間に約5.5℃に及ぶ顕著な水温急上昇が観測された.この水温急上昇は同湾沖の黒潮系暖水の流入による影響であり,さらに流入した暖水は同湾沿岸を反時計回りに伝播する事が分った.両係留観測地点の水温急上昇の時間差と距離から求めた暖水の伝播速度は0.79 m/secである.この値は暖水の移動を沿岸密度流の先端部の速度(Kubokawa and Hanawa, 1984)と見なして計算した値0.93 m/secに概ね等しい.同様な現象は相模湾でも発生する事が知られていて,それは急潮と呼ばれている事から,今回観測した水温急上昇は駿河湾の急潮と呼ぶ事が出来る.また,今回の急潮をもたらした黒潮系暖水の流入の原因は黒潮の接岸であり,それには石廊崎沖での黒潮の小さな蛇行の発生が関係している可能性が考えられる.なお,同湾内各地の水位変動には急潮に伴う水温急上昇の効果はほとんど現れなかった.

 

キーワード: 急潮,水温急上昇,駿河湾,沿岸密度流,黒潮接岸,水位変動


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