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Datatake
Envisat ASAR
May 28, 2005 at 20:16 GMT
South Batic Sea
Gulf of Gdansk

Comment
At the end of May, the sea surface is densely covered with filamentary slicks helping to disclose local dynamics pattern. In the image, the centre of the Gulf of Gdansk is occupied by an eddy dipole of about 70 km in diameter.

Supplementary data
Wind field from QuikScat at 18: 20 GMT
MODIS Aqua image at 11: 35 GMT

Image
surface geometry: 175*120 km
image size: 680pxl*672pxl

Contacts:
Olga Lavrova


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