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Datatake
Envisat ASAR, APP, VV-polarization
June 19, 2006 at 19:10 GMT
North-East Black Sea

Comment
Bands of biogenic surfactant films aligned along local current lines reveal a large eddy dipole. Its eddy part size is 92 km, jet length 78 km. Smaller vortex structures can be discerned at the southeastern periphery of the dipole's jet.

Supplementary data
Sea surface temperature at 18:40 GMT from AVHRR NOAA.
Chlorophyll a concentration on 20:06:06 at 11:10 GMT from MODIS Aqua.

Image
surface geometry : 105*102 km
image size: 680pxl*655pxl

Contacts:
Olga Lavrova


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