{"id":40150,"date":"2021-03-05T23:59:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=40150"},"modified":"2021-03-07T21:48:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T21:48:45","slug":"blowing-dust-in-texas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/40150","title":{"rendered":"Blowing dust in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210305_goes16_dustRGB_splitCloudTopPhase_TX_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/tx_rgb-20210305_200112.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 Dust RGB and Split Cloud Top Phase (11.2-8.4 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"641\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Dust RGB and Split Cloud Top Phase <em>(11.2-8.4 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210305_goes16_dustRGB_splitCloudTopPhase_TX_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/quick_guides\/Dust_RGB_Quick_Guide.pdf\"><strong>Dust RGB<\/strong><\/a> and Split Cloud Top Phase (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_G16_CloudPhaseBTD.pdf\"><strong>11.2-8.4 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed signatures of blowing dust &#8212; brighter shades of magenta\/pink on the Dust RGB and darker shades of blue on the Split Cloud Top Phase images &#8212; moving southward across southwestern Texas on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20210305.html\"><strong>05 March 2021<\/strong><\/a>. Winds were not particularly strong on this day (with peak gusts only in the 30-40 knot range), so the dust signatures were not as vivid as was seen in similar recent events such as <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/39690\"><strong>15 Jan 2021<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/39771\"><strong>30 Jan 2021<\/strong><\/a>. The blowing dust did restrict surface visibility to 2.5 miles at Midland, Texas (KMAF).<\/p>\n<p>GOES-16 True Color RGB images created using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/\"><strong>Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> did not reveal a distinct blowing dust signature until later in the day, when a more favorable forward scattering geometry helped to highlight the feature.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210305_goes16_trueColorRGB_TX_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnl\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/GOES-16_ABI_RadC_true_color_2021064_235612Z.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"642\" height=\"578\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/03\/210305_goes16_trueColorRGB_TX_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-16 (GOES-East) Dust RGB and Split Cloud Top Phase (11.2-8.4 \u00b5m) images (above) showed signatures of blowing dust &#8212; brighter shades of magenta\/pink on the Dust RGB and darker shades of blue on the Split Cloud Top Phase images &#8212; moving southward across southwestern Texas on 05 March 2021. Winds were not particularly strong on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":40152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40150","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=40150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40151,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40150\/revisions\/40151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}