{"id":40860,"date":"2021-05-06T22:59:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T22:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=40860"},"modified":"2021-05-09T16:13:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T16:13:35","slug":"blowing-dust-across-mongolia-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/40860","title":{"rendered":"Blowing dust across Mongolia and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210504_210506_himawari8_dustRGB_Mongolia_blowing_dust_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/Himawari-8_AHI_FLDK_dust_2021126_120000Z.png\" alt=\"Himawari-8 Dust RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"641\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 Dust RGB images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210504_210506_himawari8_dustRGB_Mongolia_blowing_dust_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/indexe.html\"><strong>JMA<\/strong><\/a> Himawari-8 <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/quick_guides\/Dust_RGB_Quick_Guide.pdf\"><strong>Dust RGB<\/strong><\/a> images (created using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/\"><strong>Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a>) covering the 48-hour period from 21 UTC on 04 May to 21 UTC on 06 May 2021 <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed multiple plumes of blowing dust <em>(brighter shades magenta\/pink)<\/em> which originated over parts of Mongolia &#8212; and were then transported southeastward and eastward across northeastern China.<\/p>\n<p>Surface analyses from the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.kma.go.kr\/eng\/weather\/images\/analysischart.jsp?prevType=M&amp;type=M&amp;data=sfc3&amp;x=25&amp;y=12&amp;tm=2021.05.06.21\"><strong>Korean Meteorological Agency<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed an impressive pressure gradient between a midlatidude cyclone (moving southeastward from Mongolia into China) and high pressure moving southward behind it. Some of the airborne dust was entrained into the circulation of this low pressure system.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 654px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210504_210506_Asia_surface_analyses_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210504_210506_Asia_surface_analyses_anim.gif\" alt=\"Surface analyses during the period from 21 UTC on 0 May to 21 UTC on 06 May [click to enlarge | MP4]\" width=\"644\" height=\"541\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surface analyses during the period from 21 UTC on 04 May to 21 UTC on 06 May [click to enlarge | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210504_210506_Asia_surface_analyses_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>VIIRS True Color RGB mages from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 viewed using <a href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the hazy arc of blowing dust along the trailing cold front (south of the cyclone in northeastern China) on 6 May.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210506_0026utc_noaa20_viirs_trueColorRGB_Mongolia_China_blowing_dust_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/05\/210506_0026utc_noaa20_viirs_trueColorRGB_Mongolia_China_blowing_dust_anim.gif\" alt=\"VIIRS True Color RGB mages from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 [click to enlarge]\" width=\"643\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">VIIRS True Color RGB mages from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JMA Himawari-8 Dust RGB images (created using\u00a0Geo2Grid) covering the 48-hour period from 21 UTC on 04 May to 21 UTC on 06 May 2021 (above) revealed multiple plumes of blowing dust (brighter shades magenta\/pink) which originated over parts of Mongolia &#8212; and were then transported southeastward and eastward across northeastern China. Surface analyses from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":40862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,62,78,53,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-himawari-8","category-noaa-20","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\/40860","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=40860"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40876,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40860\/revisions\/40876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}