{"id":30560,"date":"2018-11-03T23:59:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T23:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=30560"},"modified":"2018-11-05T16:58:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T16:58:29","slug":"blowing-dust-in-the-arabian-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/30560","title":{"rendered":"Blowing dust in the Arabian Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sequence<\/a>

Sequence of daily True Color RGB images from Terra MODIS, Aqua MODIS and Suomi NPP VIIRS, covering the period 01-03 November [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>Strong winds across southern Iran and Pakistan were lofting plumes of blowing sand\/dust offshore over the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea during 01 November, 02 November and 03 November 2018 — a sequence of daily composites of True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from Terra MODIS, Aqua MODIS and Suomi NPP VIIRS from RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the increase in dust transport during that 3-day period.<\/p>\n

A comparison of True Color RGB images from Terra MODIS, NOAA-20 VIIRS, Suomi NPP VIIRS and Aqua MODIS on 03 November is shown below.<\/p>\n

\"Comparison<\/a>

Comparison of True Color RGB images from Terra MODIS, NOAA-20 VIIRS, Suomi NPP VIIRS and Aqua MODIS on 03 November [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>Metop-A and Metop-B ASCAT data (source<\/strong><\/a>) showed surface wind speeds in the 20-25 knot range emerging from the coast where plumes of blowing dust were located (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Meop<\/a>

Meop ASCAT surface scatteromete winds [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>EUMETSAT<\/strong><\/a> Meteosat-11 High Resolution Visible (0.8 \u00b5m) images from 02 November and 03 November (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the daily evolution of the dust plumes.<\/p>\n

\"Meteosat-11<\/a>

Meteosat-11 Visible (0.8 \u00b5m)<\/em> images on 02 November [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>

\"Meteosat-11<\/a>

Meteosat-11 Visible (0.8 \u00b5m)<\/em> images on 03 November [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strong winds across southern Iran and Pakistan were lofting plumes of blowing sand\/dust offshore over the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea during 01 November, 02 November and 03 November 2018 — a sequence of daily composites of True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images from Terra MODIS, Aqua MODIS and Suomi NPP VIIRS from RealEarth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":30566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,23,58,12,78,53,45,25,49,71,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aqua","category-meteosat","category-metop","category-modis","category-noaa-20","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-satellite-winds","category-suomi_npp","category-terra","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30560","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=30560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30561,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30560\/revisions\/30561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}