Internal Waves around Dongsha Atoll

• C.-T. Liu et al (Nonlinear internal waves from the Luzon Strait, EOS, 87 (42), 17 October, 2006) reported on internal waves in the South China Sea with important ecological effects.
• MODIS Aqua pass of 2005-May-13, 5:35 UTC was processed using standard Wimsoft (http://wimsoft.com) routines. Both true-color and Chl-a images are shown below.
• A tutorial for creating similar images in Wimsoft is available here.
• High-resolution ASTER pass of 15 m imagery is shown below.
• Processing details for MODIS 250-m data are described in http://www.wimsoft.com/Course/2_Level_1B/Exercises_modis_250m.pdf  and those for ASTER data in http://www.wimsoft.com/Course/2_Level_1B/Exercises_ASTER.pdf .
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MODIS Aqua true-color, 2005-May-13, 5:35 UTC
MODIS Aqua, Chl-a mg m-3, 2005-May-13, 5:35 UTC
ASTER, RGB of channels 1-2-3N, 2005-March-22
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