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This false-colour, polarised image from Copernicus Sentinel-1 shows us the surface of the sea beneath the clouds, as seen by the satellite’s radar instrument. The sea conditions reflect the strong winds as Typhoon Surigae passes over.
Satellite images of tropical cyclones usually show the cloud cover. A new radar image of the typhoon Surigae, on the other hand, makes the surface of the sea visible under the storm and therefore depicts the calm eye and the heavily roughened sea. The observation also shows why radar satellites are valuable for measuring extreme wind fields. Frascati (Italy). Tropical cyclones are light from space [...] The article Satellite image through the cl…