HIMAWARI-8 GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE OBSERVATION OF THE INTERNAL SOLITARY WAVES IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA

摘要: Abstract. The new generation geostationary meteorological satellite, Himawari-8 (H-8), was launched in 2015. Its main payload, the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI), can observe earth with 10-minute interval and as high 500–m spatial resolution. This makes H-8 satellite an ideal data source for marine atmospheric phenomena monitoring. In this study, propagation of internal solitary waves (ISWs) South China Sea is investigated using AHI imagery time series first time. Three ISWs cases were studied at 3:30–8:00 UTC on 30 May, 2016. all, 28 detected tracked between image pairs. direction phase speeds these are calculated analyzed. observation results show that properties ISW not stable maintains nonlinear during its lifetime. resultant agree well theoretical values estimated from Taylor-Goldstein equation Argo dataset. study has demonstrated be a useful tool to monitor investigate oceanic waves.