{"id":68380,"date":"2026-01-01T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=68380"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:19:42","slug":"blowing-dust-in-the-northern-patagonia-region-of-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/68380","title":{"rendered":"Blowing dust in the northern Patagonia region of Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1494px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/01\/260101_goes19_trueColorRGB_aerosolOpticalDepth_Patagonia_blowing_dust_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/01\/goeseast_abi_radf_true_color_night_s20260101150022_e20260101230022_f49.mp4_combined_horizontally_with_goeseast_abi_radf_aod_s20260101150022_e20260101230022_f49.mp4_fr000045.png\" width=\"1484\" height=\"748\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">10-minute GOES-19 True Color RGB images (left) and Aerosol Optical Depth derived product (right), from 1500-2300 UTC on 01 January 2026 [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-19 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em>\u00a0True Color RGB images along with the <a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_BaselineAerosolOpticalDepth.pdf\"><strong>Aerosol Optical Depth<\/strong><\/a> derived product from the <a href=\"https:\/\/geosphere.ssec.wisc.edu\/#playing:true;coordinate:-140480,-25286;zoom:1.4;num_frames:49;\"><strong>CSPP GeoSphere<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0showed a pulse of blowing dust that was moving northward and westward across the northern <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patagonia\"><strong>Patagonia<\/strong><\/a> region of Argentina on 01 January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Surface analyses <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> depicted a cold front that was moving northward across that area during the day &#8212; a narrow <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/01\/260101_2200utc_goes19_trueColorRGB_aerosolOpticalDepth_cold_front.png\"><strong>cloud band<\/strong><\/a> denoted part of the leading edge of this cold front. The circulation around a compact area of high pressure that developed along the coast (south of the cold front, at <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/01\/260102_0000utc_sfc_SoAm.png\"><strong>0000 UTC<\/strong><\/a>) acted to transport some of the blowing dust farther inland (westward).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/01\/260101_surface_analyses_South_America_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2026\/01\/260101_surface_analyses_South_America_anim.gif\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2219\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surface analyses at 1200 UTC on 01 January and 0000 UTC on 02 January [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-19 (GOES-East)\u00a0True Color RGB images along with the Aerosol Optical Depth derived product from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above)\u00a0showed a pulse of blowing dust that was moving northward and westward across the northern Patagonia region of Argentina on 01 January 2026. Surface analyses (below) depicted a cold front that was moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":68381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,159,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-quality","category-goes-19","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68380","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=68380"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68389,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68380\/revisions\/68389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}