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Datatake
ERS-2 SAR
October 04, 1999 at 08:21
North-East Black Sea

Comment
Cold air from east (from the shore) interacts with warmer air over the sea. Temperature and pressure horizontal gradients are large. Colder air induces convective processes in the near-surface layer of the atmosphere. The wind is stronger there hence radar contrasts are larger.

Image
surface geometry : ~100*100 km
image size: 680pxl*697pxl

Contacts:
Olga Lavrova


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