Internal waves in the Andaman Sea

  • Credit

    Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

South of Myanmar (top center) sunglint brightens the Andaman Sea, highlighting the presence of internal waves--waves that move along underwater at the boundary between two ocean layers of different densities. The evidence of these very large waves is the presence of parallel rows of arcing lines scattered throughout the length of the image in the sunglint region in the image center. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image was captured by the Aqua satellite on April 17, 2003.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2003-05-23