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Datatake
Envisat ASAR
May 28, 2005 at 20:16
South-East Baltic Sea
Kuronian Spit

Comment
Almost the whole of the sea surface is covered with filamentary slicks due to high biogenic productivity at the end of May. A train of atmospheric internal waves (1) can be seen to propagate seawards from the Kuronian Spit.

Supplementary data
Wind field from QuikScat at 18: 20

Image
surface geometry : 180*144 km
image size: 680pxl*558pxl

Contacts:
Olga Lavrova


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