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The Sea of Okhotsk: Scientific Applications of Remote Sensing

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The characteristics of the Sea of Okhotsk have not been adequately explored due to the severe environmental conditions and satellite measurements are particular appealing for their study. Results of remote sensing of the various oceanic and atmospheric dynamic phenomena in the Sea of Okhotsk are reviewed. The multisensor data analysis is considered as the most effective approach for the phenomena detection, interpretation and operational applications. Particular emphasis has been placed on the use of passive and active microwave techniques. Microwave remote sensing provide estimates of the sea surface temperature, surface wind speed, sea ice parameters, atmospheric water vapor content, cloud liquid water content, as well as allows mapping of current and eddy boundaries, the surface manifestations of the internal waves , bottom topography signatures, the organized wind speed variations in the marine boundary layer of the atmosphere.

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Acknowledgements

This work was partly supported by the FEB RAS grant 18-I-010 and the JAXA Project F10. Authors thank the JAXA for the Aqua AMSR-E and GCOM-W1 AMSR2 and ALOS PALSAR data, the ESA for the Envisat and Sentinel-1A SAR images, the NASA for the MODIS and VIIRS data and NOAA for ASCAT wind data.

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    Leonid M. Mitnik & Vyacheslav A. Dubina

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Mitnik, L.M., Dubina, V.A. (2019). The Sea of Okhotsk: Scientific Applications of Remote Sensing. In: Barale, V., Gade, M. (eds) Remote Sensing of the Asian Seas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94067-0_8

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