{"id":14902,"date":"2014-01-16T22:09:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T22:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=14902"},"modified":"2014-02-12T19:50:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T19:50:59","slug":"blowing-dust-in-nebraska-kansas-and-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/14902","title":{"rendered":"Blowing dust in Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado"},"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\/2014\/01\/140116_g13_vis_NE_KS_BLDU_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)\" alt=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/01\/140116_G13_VIS_NE_KS_BLDU_09a.GIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the development of widespread plumes of blowing dust across parts of southwestern Nebraska, northwestern Kansas, and eastern Colorado on <a title=\"16 January 2014 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20140116.html\"><strong>16 January 2014<\/strong><\/a>. Strong northerly to northwesterly winds in the wake of a morning cold frontal passage were\u00c2\u00a0 gusting over 40 knots across the entire region, with a peak wind gust of 64 knots in Broken Bow, Nebraska. These strong winds easily lofted the dry soils (the area was experiencing extreme drought conditions), which reduced surface visibilities and caused multiple vehicle accidents in Colorado and Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>A closer view of the blowing dust using a 250-meter resolution Aqua MODIS <a title=\"true-color RGB images (using MODIS Bands 4\/3\/1)\" href=\"https:\/\/earthdata.nasa.gov\/data\/near-real-time-data\/faq\/rapid-response#rapid4\"><strong>true-color<\/strong><\/a> Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image from the <a title=\"SSEC MODIS Today site\" href=\"http:\/\/ge.ssec.wisc.edu\/modis-today\/index.php?satellite=a1&amp;product=true_color&amp;date=2014_01_16_016&amp;overlay_sector=false&amp;overlay_state=true&amp;overlay_coastline=true\"><strong>SSEC MODIS Today<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> clearly showed the source region of many of the dust plumes in southwestern Nebraska. The blowing dust plumes in eastern Colorado are not easily seen, due to patchy middle and high level clouds drifting over the region at that time.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/01\/140116_aqua_modis_truecolor_NE_KS_BLDU_a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Aqua MODIS true-color RGB image\" alt=\"Aqua MODIS true-color RGB image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/01\/140116_aqua_modis_truecolor_NE_KS_BLDU_a.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aqua MODIS true-color RGB image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A larger-scale view of the MODIS true-color image can be seen below, visualized using Google Earth.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/01\/140116_aqua_modis_truecolor_NE_KS_BLDU_google_a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Aqua MODIS true-color RGB image (viewed using Google Earth)\" alt=\"Aqua MODIS true-color RGB image (viewed using Google Earth)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/01\/140116_aqua_modis_truecolor_NE_KS_BLDU_google_a.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aqua MODIS true-color RGB image (viewed using Google Earth)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For additional information and imagery of this blowing dust event, see the <a title=\"CIRA RAMMB GOES-R Proving Ground Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/research\/goes-r\/proving_ground\/blog\/index.php\/blowing-dust-detection-split-window-technique\/a-look-at-the-16-jan-2014-dust-storm-in-eastern-colorado-using-viirs-imagery\/\"><strong>RAMMB GOES-R Proving Ground<\/strong><\/a> blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 (GOES-East) 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of widespread plumes of blowing dust across parts of southwestern Nebraska, northwestern Kansas, and eastern Colorado on 16 January 2014. Strong northerly to northwesterly winds in the wake of a morning cold frontal passage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":14904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,32,12,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-goes-13","category-google-earth","category-modis","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902","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=14902"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14909,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902\/revisions\/14909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}