{"id":7263,"date":"2010-11-28T23:59:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T23:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=7263"},"modified":"2011-01-25T18:02:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T18:02:48","slug":"blowing-dust-from-mexico-across-texas-and-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/7263","title":{"rendered":"Blowing dust from Mexico across Texas and New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/11\/101128_g13_vis_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/11\/101128_g13_vis_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed several plumes of blowing dust originating in northern Mexico, which then drifted northeastward across parts of Texas and New Mexico during the afternoon hours on <a title=\"28 November 2010 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20101128.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>28 November 2010<\/strong><\/a>. At El Paso, Texas <em>(located at the center of the image),<\/em> winds gusted to 52 mph, and surface visibility was reduced to 2.5 miles due to\u00c2\u00a0 blowing dust. Farther to the east, winds gusted to 64 mph at Guadalupe National Park.<\/p>\n<p>A comparison of the MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel image and the corresponding 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m &#8211; 12.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR brightness temperature difference image <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed a signal where the airborne blowing dust was the most concentrated <em>(yellow enhancement)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/11\/101128_modis_irdiff_vis_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible image + MODIS 11.0-12.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR difference image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/11\/101128_modis_irdiff_vis_anim.gif\" alt=\"MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible image + MODIS 11.0-12.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR difference image\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible image + MODIS 11.0-12.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR difference image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AWIPS images of <strong><a title=\"MODIS in AWIPS: VISIT training lesson\" href=\"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/training\/visit\/training_sessions\/modis_products_in_awips\/\">MODIS<\/a><\/strong> 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data and MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel data <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that many of the larger plumes exhibited a slightly cooler <em>(lighter gray)<\/em> appearance on the IR image.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/11\/101128_modis_vis_ir_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible image + MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/11\/101128_modis_vis_ir_anim.gif\" alt=\"MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible image + MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image\" width=\"480\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS 0.65 \u00c2\u00b5m visible image + MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above) revealed several plumes of blowing dust originating in northern Mexico, which then drifted northeastward across parts of Texas and New Mexico during the afternoon hours on 28 November 2010. At El Paso, Texas (located at the center of the image), winds gusted to 52 mph, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-quality","category-goes-13","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263","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=7263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7520,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions\/7520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}