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Modis Terra
August 05, 2004 at 10:40
South-East Baltic Sea

Comment
Slicks outline large oceanic vortices (1) of 50 km in diameter and more. Multiple vortices of small and medium sizes in Gdansk Bay, though revealed in Envisat ASAR image taken the same day, cannot be seen in the Modis image.

Supplementary data
Envisat ASAR image at 20:19
Wave forecast for 12:00
Wind forecast for 09:00

Image
surface geometry : 220*260 km
image size: 680pxl*809pxl

Contacts:
Olga Lavrova


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