Eddy currents in Pechora Sea

The stripe has been acquired on 12-11-1193 by the ERS-1 SAR, it covers 400 by 100 km and includes some of the Kara Sea, the southern part of Novaya Zemlya, a section across the Pechora Sea, and some of the mainland (see the location of the SAR image ).
The image shows several ice phenomena in the freeze-up period. In the lower part the Pechora Bay (PB) is covered by young ice, while the southern part of the Pechora Sea is icefree. Further north grease ice and pancake ice show a complex pattern of several eddies and meanders which reflect the mesoscale ocean circulation in the area. The ice in the Pechora sea is not more than 2 weeks old. In the Kara Sea, however, several ice floes of various size can be identified.
In this region some of the ice has formed earlier in the season and has been advected southwards along the east coast of Novaya Zemlya.

NERSC, Bergen, Norway

Keywords: ESA European Space Agency - Agence spatiale europeenne, observation de la terre, earth observation, satellite remote sensing, teledetection, geophysique, altimetrie, radar, chimique atmospherique, geophysics, altimetry, radar, atmospheric chemistry