A comparison of ASCAT wind measurements and the HIRLAM model over the Baltic Sea**This research is supported by European Social Fund’s Doctoral Studies and Internationalization Programme DoRa and the Estonian Ministry of Education and Science research targeted financing theme SF0180038s08. The EARS ASCAT data used in this research was provided by the EUMETCast service of EUMETSAT OSI SAF project, and the software used in this work was developed at KNMI.