{"id":12334,"date":"2013-02-09T23:59:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T23:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=12334"},"modified":"2013-02-10T23:53:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T23:53:13","slug":"blowing-dust-over-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/12334","title":{"rendered":"Blowing dust over New Mexico and Texas"},"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\/2013\/02\/130209_g13_vis_dust_NM_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" alt=\"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\/2013\/02\/130209_G13_VIS_DUST_NM_27.GIF\" 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 GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data <strong><em>(above; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> showed the development of widespread plumes of blowing dust over parts of New Mexico and Texas on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20130209.html\" title=\"09 February 2013 daily weather map\">09 February 2013<\/a><\/strong>. Surface <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/130209_tx_nm_wind_gusts.text\" title=\"maximum surface wind gusts\">wind gusts<\/a><\/strong> across the region were as high as 79 mph in New Mexico and 71 MPH in Texas. Most of the blowing dust appeared to have originated from dry lake beds in northern Mexico, but early in the animation a narrow dust plume can be seen whose source region was White Sands, New Mexico. Due to an increasingly favorable forward scattering angle, the dust became more apparent on the visible imagery during the afternoon hours.<\/p>\n<p>A comparison of AWIPS images of 1-km resolution MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 1.61 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR &#8220;cirrus detection channel&#8221; data <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> demonstrated how the MODIS cirrus channel can be used to more accurately identify the leading edge of the airborne dust over eastern New Mexico &#8212; the 1.61 \u00c2\u00b5m channel can detect the presence of partcles that are efficient scatterers of light <em>(such as cirrus cloud ice crystals, volcanic ash, smoke, dust)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/130209_1819z_vis_cirrus_blowingdust_NM_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel image and 1.61 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR \" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/130209_1819z_vis_cirrus_blowingdust_NM_anim.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel image and 1.61 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR &#8220;cirrus detection channel&#8221; image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A closer view using 250-meter resolution Terra (18:28 UTC) and Aqua (20:04 UTC) MODIS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ge.ssec.wisc.edu\/modis-today\/index.php?satellite=t1&#038;product=true_color&#038;date=2013_02_09_040&#038;overlay_sector=false&#038;overlay_state=true&#038;overlay_coastline=true\" title=\"SSEC MODIS Today site\">SSEC MODIS Today<\/a><\/strong> site <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> helped to identify a few of the blowing dust source regions in far northern Mexico.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/130209_modis_truecolor_dust_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Terra and Aqua MODIS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/130209_modis_truecolor_dust_anim.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terra and Aqua MODIS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of widespread plumes of blowing dust over parts of New Mexico and Texas on 09 February 2013. Surface wind gusts across the region were as high as 79 mph in New Mexico and 71 MPH in Texas. 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