{"id":9742,"date":"2012-02-07T22:59:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T22:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=9742"},"modified":"2012-02-10T22:13:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T22:13:40","slug":"large-outbreak-of-saharan-dust-over-the-eastern-atlantic-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/9742","title":{"rendered":"Large outbreak of Saharan dust over the eastern Atlantic Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/02\/120207_met9_vis_dust_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"EUMETSAT Meteosat-9 0.635 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/02\/120207_MET9_VIS_DUST_20.GIF\" alt=\"EUMETSAT Meteosat-9 0.635 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">EUMETSAT Meteosat-9 0.635 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>McIDAS images of EUMETSAT Metosat-9 0.635 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed a very large outbreak of airborne Saharan dust streaming off the continent of Africa and moving west-southwestward out over the adjacent waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean on <strong>07 February 2012<\/strong>. In addition, a pair of long von Karman vortex streets can be seen moving southwestward from the Cape Verde islands.<\/p>\n<p>While the viewing angle was more extreme, the Saharan dust could also be seen on GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/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\/2012\/02\/120207_g13_vis_dust_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images + surface reports\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/02\/120207_g13_vis_dust_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images + surface reports\" width=\"480\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images + surface reports<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The emergence of this Saharan dust over water can be seen to occur around 00:00 UTC on 06 February on the Meteosat-9 <a title=\"Saharan Air Layer tarcking product\" href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/misc\/sal\/info.sal.m8split.html\"><strong>Saharan Air Layer<\/strong><\/a> tracking product <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 491px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/02\/120205-07_met9_splitWindow_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"EUMETSAT Meteosat-9 Saharan Air Layer tracking product\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/02\/120205-07_met9_splitWindow_anim.gif\" alt=\"EUMETSAT Meteosat-9 Saharan Air Layer tracking product\" width=\"481\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">EUMETSAT Meteosat-9 Saharan Air Layer tracking product<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIDAS images of EUMETSAT Metosat-9 0.635 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed a very large outbreak of airborne Saharan dust streaming off the continent of Africa and moving west-southwestward out over the adjacent waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean on 07 February 2012. In addition, a pair of long von [&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":[11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-13","category-meteosat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742","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=9742"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9748,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742\/revisions\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}