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Image env0408182010


Datatake
Envisat ASAR
August 18, 2004 at 20:10
South-East Baltic Sea
Gdansk Bay

Comment
An atmospheric front passes over the imaged area bringing rain onto the sea surface (1). The long plume of Vistula river (2) is visualized due to high concentration of surfactants and biogenic films; it is stretched along local current direction.

Supplementary data
QuikScat wind at 17:07

Image
surface geometry : 70*40 km
image size: 680pxl*402pxl

Contacts:
Olga Lavrova


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