Strong winds across southern Iran and Pakistan were lofting plumes of blowing sand/dust offshore over the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea during 01 November, 02 November and 03 November 2018 — a sequence of daily composites of True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from Terra MODIS, Aqua MODIS and... Read More
We are down for @RELAMPAGO2018, but #ARMCACTI just captured dual frequency radar observations of above anvil cirrus plume associated with an overshooting top @krisbedka @AtmoScientist @murillomojo pic.twitter.com/lC3GOPWCMu — Steve Nesbitt (@70_dbz) November 3, 2018 An Above-Anvil Cirrus Plume (AACP) was observed over northern Argentina on 03 November 2018 during the RELAMPAGO-CACTI field experiment... Read More
Strong gap winds accelerating out of the Copper River Valley along the southern coast of Alaska were lofting fine particles of glacial silt/sand and transporting those aerosols southwestward across the Gulf of Alaska on 31 October and 01 November 2018. A sequence of NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images viewed... Read More
The Garden Route Fires had been burning since about 24 October 2018 near George along the southern coast of South Africa (media story). On 29 October, EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 High Resolution Visible (0.8 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.92 µm) and Longwave Infrared Window (10.8 µm) images (above) showed an elongated west-to-east oriented thermal... Read More
