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In this work, we focus on the Doppler Centroid Anomaly (DCA), which accounts for the Doppler shift induced by sea surface movements. Starting from SAR raw data, we develop a processing chain to elaborate them and output the surface velocity map using DCA. The DCA technique has often been presented in the marine literature for estimating sea surface velocity, but more recently it has also been used to detect near-surface wind fields. This paper deals with estimating the sea surface wind field using Doppler information and SAR backscatter, combined with wind information provided by ECMWF and geophysical wind and Doppler model functions. We investigate the application of the approach in the coastal area of the northern Adriatic Sea (Northeast Italy). The test site is interesting, both for its particular orography, as it is a semi-enclosed basin largely surrounded by mountains, and for its complex meteorological phenomena, such as the Bora wind. 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