Storm Ciara blows over Europe

Sentinel-5P TROPOMI CLOUD acquired on 08 February 2020 from 13:36:53 to 17:01:53 UTC
Sentinel-3 SRAL LAND acquired on 09 February 2020 at 11:28:17 & 20:43:42 UTC
Sentinel-5P TROPOMI CLOUD acquired on 09 February 2020 from 11:36:53 to 15:01:53 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 09 February 2020 from 17:00:29 to 18:37:50 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Storm, wind, precipitations, rainfalls, flooding, storm surge, atmosphere, Europe
Fig. 1 - S5P TROPOMI (08.02.2020) - cloud cover fraction with colour map - A storm complex caused heavy snowfalls over North America.
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Fig. 2 - 09.02.2020 - It then crossed the Atlantic, reaching Northern & Western Europe bringing storm surge, rainfalls and exceptional wind.
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A subsonic flight crossed the Atlantic in 4h56, beating the record by 17'. Tailwind & jet stream pushed it up to 1328kph, over its 1004kph topspeed.
Fig. 3 - S1 (09 & 10.02.2020) - vv,vh,ndi(vh,vv) colour composite - Wind gusts reached 220 km/h gusts in Corsica.
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Fig. 4 - S3 SRAL (09.02.2020) - Significant wave height Ku-band 1htz - The wind reached the Channel before the Mediterranean Sea.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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