![\"Himawari-8](\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/05\/200512_hmawari8_trueColorRGB_Gobi_Desert_dust_plume_anim.gif\")
<\/a>Himawari-8 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>JMA<\/strong><\/a> Himawari-8 True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images created using Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> (above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a long plume of airborne <\/span>dust from the Gobi <\/strong><\/a><\/span>Desert<\/strong><\/a>, which curved cyclonically across northeastern China and the Korean Peninsula, eventually moving over the Sea of Japan on 12 May 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n A longer day\/night animation of Himawari-8 Dust RGB<\/strong><\/a> images (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that the dust plume (shades of pink)<\/em> originated in Mongolia early on 11 May, along a cold front associated with a strong midlatitude cyclone<\/strong><\/a> over northeastern China.<\/p>\n Himawari-8 Dust RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color RGB image as viewed using RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the dust plume at 04 UTC on 12 May.<\/p>\n NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color RGB image, with plots of surface reports [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Time series plots of surface report data (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that close to the source of the plume in Mongolia winds gusted as high as 47 knots with blowing dust at Ulan-Bator (ZMUB) — while just across the China border surface visibility was briefly restricted to less than 1 mile at Hohhot (ZBHH).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>