{"id":10365,"date":"2012-05-14T23:59:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T23:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=10365"},"modified":"2012-05-16T22:05:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T22:05:19","slug":"blowing-dust-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/10365","title":{"rendered":"Blowing dust in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/05\/120514_g13_vis_mexico_bd_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/05\/120514_G13_VIS_MEXICO_BD_22.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> revealed widespread areas of blowing dust moving southward across northern Mexico on <a title=\"14 May 2012 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20120514.html\"><strong>14 May 2012<\/strong><\/a>. This airborne dust was generated along a southward-moving cold front, which was reinforced by low-level convective outflow boundaries. At Chihuahua, Mexico <em>(station identifier MMCU),<\/em> the temperature\/visibility dropped from 88 F\/10 miles to 77 F\/0.5 mile within one hour as the leading edge of the blowing dust moved through that location.<\/p>\n<p>A comparison of GOES-15 <em>(GOES-West)<\/em> and GOES-13 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> visible channel images <em><strong>(below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the advantage of a more frequent image scanning schedule: the GOES-13 satellite had been placed into Rapid Scan Operations (RSO) mode <em>(providing images as often as every 5-10 minutes),<\/em> in contrast to the routine 15-minute image interval available from GOES-15.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/05\/120514_g15_g13_vis_mexico_bd_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"GOES-15 (top) and GOES-13 (bottom) 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/05\/120514_G15_G13_VIS_MEXICO_DUST_22.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-15 (top) and GOES-13 (bottom) 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 (top) and GOES-13 (bottom) 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed widespread areas of blowing dust moving southward across northern Mexico on 14 May 2012. This airborne dust was generated along a southward-moving cold front, which was reinforced by low-level convective outflow boundaries. At Chihuahua, Mexico (station identifier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-quality","category-goes-13","category-goes-15"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10366,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365\/revisions\/10366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}