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Title: Comparison of Sea Surface Wind maps

Description: Using the Wadden Sea of the Netherlands as a study area, this image features an example of (a) MS LG-Mod SSW map (black arrows for direction, background for wind speed), estimated over a grid of about 0.125° by 0.125° (latitude by longitude), from a Copernicus Sentinel-1A IW image acquired on 5 December 2015, 17:25:03 UTC, along ascending orbit, with VV-polarisations; (b) ECMWF SSW map for the same date at 18:00:00 UTC (black arrows for direction, background for wind speed).

Copyright: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2015)/processed by e-shape