{"id":17757,"date":"2015-02-02T23:59:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T23:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=17757"},"modified":"2015-02-19T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T01:18:08","slug":"african-dust-blowing-across-the-mediterranean-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/17757","title":{"rendered":"African dust blowing across the Mediterranean Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/02\/150131-0202_suomi_npp_viirs_truecolor_African_dust_Mediterranean_Sea_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/02\/150131-0202_suomi_npp_viirs_truecolor_African_dust_Mediterranean_Sea_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color image composites\" width=\"480\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color image composites<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A sequence of daily Suomi NPP VIIRS Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) true-color image composites from the <a title=\"SSEC RealEarth web map server\" href=\"http:\/\/wms.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>SSEC RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> web map server site <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the northeastward transport of African dust across the Mediterranean Sea during the 31 January &#8211; 02 February 2015 period. On 02 February, orange snow was observed in Saratov, Russia (<a title=\"news story\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/228695-saratov-russia-orange-snow\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\"><strong>news story<\/strong><\/a>), a city about 580 miles or 936 km northeast of Stavropol (which is located in the far upper right corner of the VIIRS images).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sequence of daily Suomi NPP VIIRS Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) true-color image composites from the SSEC RealEarth web map server site (above) showed the northeastward transport of African dust across the Mediterranean Sea during the 31 January &#8211; 02 February 2015 period. On 02 February, orange snow was observed in Saratov, Russia (news story), a city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,53,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17757","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=17757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17760,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17757\/revisions\/17760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}