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This figure comes from the CIMR Deliverable 80 (Scientific Benefit Case Study 2) which evaluates CIMR Support for better monitoring of Polar Low events.

Simulation covering a 8 hour-long period of the multi-frequency radiometer capability of CIMR to intercept an evolving Polar Low and to resolve the storm wind structure spatio-temporal evolution as it developed in the Barents Sea on 19^th January 2017. Each panel from top to bottom and from left to right show successive CIMR swath intercepts of the storms during its evolution on that day and the simulated 15 km resolution retrieved wind speed over the swath of the combined radiometer L-, C- and X-band channel data (color). The subsatellite point track is the black thick curve. The grey thin curves show the previous (in time) CIMR swath orbital subpoints for which the swath intercepted the storm. The pink dotted curve show the Polar Low center track and the black cross indicates the storm center location at the time of the CIMR intercepts. Note that the storm started to develop at 1:52 on January 19^th 2017.