{"id":13248,"date":"2013-06-11T19:36:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T19:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=13248"},"modified":"2013-06-11T19:38:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T19:38:36","slug":"outbreak-of-saharan-dust-over-the-eastern-atlantic-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/13248","title":{"rendered":"Outbreak of Saharan dust over the eastern Atlantic Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/06\/130611_g13_vis_african_dust_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images\" alt=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/06\/130611_g13_vis_african_dust_anim.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now that GOES-13 is the operational GOES-East satellite again, we have a view that covers the far eastern Atlantic Ocean into the far northwestern portion of Africa. The hazy signature of an outbreak of Saharan Air Layer (SAL) dust streaming off the African coast is evident of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The CIMSS <a title=\"CIMSS Saharan Air Layer (SAL) product\" href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/misc\/sal\/info.html\"><strong>SAL<\/strong><\/a> product<em><strong> (below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> also indicated that a strong outbreak of dust was moving westward across the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 491px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/06\/130610-11_met9_sal_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Meteosat-9 Saharan Air Layer (SAL) product (click image to play animation)\" alt=\"Meteosat-9 Saharan Air Layer (SAL) product (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/06\/130611_18z_met9_sal.jpg\" width=\"481\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meteosat-9 Saharan Air Layer (SAL) product (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that GOES-13 is the operational GOES-East satellite again, we have a view that covers the far eastern Atlantic Ocean into the far northwestern portion of Africa. The hazy signature of an outbreak of Saharan Air Layer (SAL) dust streaming off the African coast is evident of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (above). The [&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":[7,11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-quality","category-goes-13","category-meteosat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13248","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=13248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13251,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13248\/revisions\/13251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}