{"id":13593,"date":"2013-08-02T23:59:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T23:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=13593"},"modified":"2013-08-03T23:41:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T23:41:36","slug":"saharan-air-layer-outbreak-over-the-atlantic-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/13593","title":{"rendered":"Saharan Air Layer outbreak over the Atlantic Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/130801-02_g13_vis_sal_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" 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\/08\/130801-02_G13_FD_VIS_SAL_08.GIF\" width=\"479\" height=\"479\" \/><\/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 <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the hazy signature of a dust-laden Saharan Air Layer (SAL) that was propagating westward across the North Atlantic Ocean during the 01 August &#8211; 02 August 2013 period. The full disk satellite perspective helped to emphasize how large the areal coverage of this particualr SAL outbreak was. A closer view of the leading edge of the SAL feature is available <a title=\"closer view of leading edge of the Saharan Air Layer\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/130801-02_g13_vis_sal_zoom_anim.gif\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The SAL moved over Puerto Rico during the day on 02 August, as seen by the transition to a very warm and dry signature just above the 850 hPa pressure level in consecutive rawinsonde data profiles <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> from San Juan (<a title=\"GOES-13 visible image with location of San Juan (TJSJ)\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/130802_G13_VIS_SAL_TJSJ.GIF\"><strong>TJSJ<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/130802-03_tjsj_raobs_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/130802-03_tjsj_raobs_anim.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Meteosat-10 <a title=\"Saharan Air Layer (SAL) product\" href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/misc\/sal\/info.html\"><strong>Saharan Air Layer product<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the strong westward push of the SAL during the 31 July &#8211; 02 August time period.<\/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\/08\/130731-0802_met10_sal_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Meteosat-10 Saharan Air Layer (SAL) product (click image to play animation)\" alt=\"Meteosat-10 Saharan Air Layer (SAL) product (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/08\/130802_00z_met10_sal.jpg\" width=\"481\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meteosat-10 Saharan Air Layer (SAL) product (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed the hazy signature of a dust-laden Saharan Air Layer (SAL) that was propagating westward across the North Atlantic Ocean during the 01 August &#8211; 02 August 2013 period. The full disk satellite perspective helped to emphasize how large 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":[11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-13","category-meteosat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593","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=13593"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13600,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593\/revisions\/13600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}