SAR Winds over the Pacific Ocean
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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) winds over the northwest Pacific, above, derived from Radar Constellation Mission (RCM) Satellite #2, shows a narrow ribbon of strong winds (>30 knots) stretching from 50 N, 138 W towards 53 N, 140 W. What kind of cloud imagery is associated with this wind feature?
Near-sunrise visible imagery from GOES-17, below, shows a narrow band of low-level clouds aligned with the region of stronger winds. This does not appear to be a deep feature: cloud shadows are much larger along the eastern edge of the visible image, which region is east of the SAR domain shown above.
![](https://satlink.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GOES-17_ABI_RadF_C02_20210825_1520_SARPACNWAnnottoggle-1.gif)
A zoomed-out 10.3 µm infrared image, below, documents how subtle the cloud feature associated with the strong winds is. Blue arrows point to the region of strong winds.
![](https://satlink.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/G17Band13_1520_25Aug2021_annottoggle.gif)
SAR Winds are available from a variety of different satellites at this link.
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