April 16, 2015 - Low clouds in the North Sea, Skagerrak, and Kattegat

Low clouds in the North Sea, Skagerrak, and Kattegat

Low clouds hung over the North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat in mid-April, 2015. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image on April 10 as it passed over the region.

The huge fog bank wraps around the southern tip of Norway and the northern tip of Denmark, on the Jutland peninsula. It also reaches across southwestern Sweden and hides Vänern, the largest lake in Sweden, from view. The bank stretches hundreds of kilometers from the North Sea, to the west of Norway, over Skagerrak and Kattegat. Skagerrak is the strait running between the southeastern coast of Norway and the Jutland peninsula. The Kattegat is the sea area between the Jutland peninsula in the west and Sweden in the east.

Image Facts
Satellite: Aqua
Date Acquired: 4/10/2015
Resolutions: 1km (252 KB), 500m (805.3 KB), 250m (1.9 MB)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC