Scandinavia from space

Christian · December 12, 2004

Views from space over the Scandinavian region.

Svalbard

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http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/data/ev261/ev...9.1300.250m.jpg

Scandinavia

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http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/data/ev248/ev...0.1025.250m.jpg

Scandinavia

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http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/data/ev123/ev...4.1005.250m.jpg

Finland

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http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/data/ev252/ev...9.0950.250m.jpg

Iceland

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http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/data/ev233/ev...4.1245.250m.jpg

Scandinavia

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http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODIS/IMAGE_GAL...ODIS1000082.jpg

Southern Scandinavia and the Baltics

Northern Scandinavia

Allan · December 13, 2004

Look at all the snow! Thanks for posting these...these are some amazing images.

BigCityAttitude · December 16, 2004

In the third to last pic, at the very top in the middle, what is that cyclone thing?

Fruit Cove · December 16, 2004

a storm i would imagine. a scandinavian hurricane perhaps?

Christian · December 16, 2004

@ BigCityAttitude & Fruit Cove

Thats a old low pressure from a storm or a hurricane system. In that image you can actually find three of them over Scandinavia. Most of them is old hurricane system from south atlantic which has also hit the US. On they way north they gets weak, but is still a hurricane or a storm system when it hit the Norwegian coast. But they dies quite fast after they hit the Norwegian mountains.

Christian · December 16, 2004

Here are a few more images.

Snow in northern Europe

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http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/data/ev240/ev...5.1035.250m.jpg

Phytoplankton bloom in the North Sea and the Skagerrak

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http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/data/ev256/ev...8.1210.250m.jpg

Cloud vortices off Jan Mayen Island

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http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/data/ev262/ev...4.1220.250m.jpg

Record sea ice in Gulf of Finland

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http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/data/ev236/ev...0.0935.250m.jpg

Fires and smoke in the Baltics

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http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/data/ev221/ev...7.0935.250m.jpg

Low off Iceland

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http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/data/ev262/ev...7.1410.250m.jpg

Spartan · December 16, 2004

Don't forget that the North Sea area has very intense storms, and that those hurricanes are just really strong low pressure systems. So naturally they woudl look similar.

I really like the "Cloud vortices off Jan Mayen Island." And of course I always like satellite images

Christian · December 17, 2004

Don't forget that the North Sea area has very intense storms, and that those hurricanes are just really strong low pressure systems. So naturally they woudl look similar.

Yes, hurricanes is not that usually here, perhaps one big each 10th year, and a few smaller hurricanes each year or each second year. Last year we had 3 smaller hurricanes though. But large intense storms hit us whole the time. So far in december 3 storms has hit Norway, the strongest earlyer this week with wind up to 35m/s, which is hurricane winds. This has caused demage, and hundreds of closed roads and isolated villages because of avelanches and stone slides.

I really like the "Cloud vortices off Jan Mayen Island." And of course I always like satellite images

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Those clouds patterns is called "vortex streets" and is common when low winds blowing over the flat sea surface are disrupted by some obstacle such as an island. Jan mayen is a island with one tall mountain, Berenberg. Berenberg is 2 100m tall as far as i know and is the northern most active vulcano in the world, and the only active vulcano in Norway. Jan Mayen don't have any innhabitants, but you find ppl there whole year. They study artic climate, artic weather and the islands geology and vulcano activity.