A major outbreak of Saharan dust was noted during the 06-11 November 2007 period — the Meteosat-9 Saharan Air Layer (SAL) tracking product (above) revealed an extensive signal of thick dust (orange to red enhancement) that was being transported westward across the tropical Atlantic.The MIMIC Total Precipitable Water (TPW) product (below) showed the dry character of this large... Read More

Super Cylone 02A (“Gonu”) intensified rapidly in the Arabian Sea on 03-04 June 2007. EUMETSAT Meteosat-7 InfraRed imagery (above; animated GIF) showed very cold cloud-top IR brightness temperature values (-80º to -88º C, violet to purple enhancement) in the... Read More

January normally isn’t the time of year for large-scale blowing dust events over the Sahara Desert region of northern Africa, but Meteosat-8 false color imagery (above; Java animation) did show a small plume of blowing dust in northern Chad on 18 January 2007. These... Read More