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Envisat captures Kuroshio Current
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Envisat captures Kuroshio Current

25/06/2009 204 views 0 likes 224780 ID

The first Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) wide swath image of the Kuroshio Current inverted to radar Doppler velocity by J. Johannessen and Fabrice Collard, as part of the Dragon 2 programme. This image reveals the structure of the Kuroshio Current off the Chinese coast with speeds up to 1,5 metres per second.

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