{"id":9811,"date":"2012-02-28T23:59:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T23:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=9811"},"modified":"2012-03-04T02:50:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T02:50:15","slug":"plume-of-blowing-sand-from-the-white-sands-national-monument-in-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/9811","title":{"rendered":"Plume of blowing sand from the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-15<\/a>

GOES-15 (left) and GOES-13 (right) 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

Strong winds of 50-60 mph (with a peak gust of 74 mph at Fort Stanton, New Mexico)<\/em> in the wake of a cold frontal passage caused widespread areas of blowing dust from New Mexico to Kansas on 28 February 2012<\/a><\/strong>. One notable feture that was apparent on both GOES-15 (GOES-West)<\/em> and GOES-13 (GOES-East)<\/em> 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (above; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> was a long plume of blowing sand originating from the White Sands National Monument<\/a><\/strong> located in southern New Mexico. Note how the plumes of blowing dust\/sand became easier to identify later in the day on the GOES-13 imagery, as the forward scattering angle increased during the afternoon hours.<\/p>\n

A 250-meter resolution Aqua MODIS true color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image from the SSEC MODIS Today<\/a><\/strong> site (below; viewed using Google Earth)<\/em><\/strong> revealed how the gypsum sand from White Sands appeared white in color (full-resolution view<\/a><\/strong>), in contrast to the light brown colored blowing dust that was seen across the Texas and Oklahoma panhandle regions into southwestern Kansas.<\/p>\n

\"MODIS<\/a>

MODIS true color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image (viewed using Google Earth)<\/p><\/div>\n

The interaction of the strong winds with the terrain could be seen in a comparison of 1-km resolution MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m and 4-km resolution GOES-13 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images (below),<\/em><\/strong> which revealed a complex pattern of mountain waves across the region.<\/p>\n

\"MODIS<\/a>

MODIS 6.7 \u00c2\u00b5m and GOES-13 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images<\/p><\/div>\n

The strong surface winds in tandem with very dry air were creating conditions favorable for wildfire activity — one such fire could be seen in the southern Texas panhandle region in a comparison of 1-km resolution MODIS 3.7 \u00c2\u00b5m and GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images (below)<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"MODIS<\/a>

MODIS 3.7 \u00c2\u00b5m and GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images<\/p><\/div>\n

Additional information and imagery from this event can be found on the Wide World of SPoRT<\/a><\/strong> blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strong winds of 50-60 mph (with a peak gust of 74 mph at Fort Stanton, New Mexico) in the wake of a cold frontal passage caused widespread areas of blowing dust from New Mexico to Kansas on 28 February 2012. One notable feture that was apparent on both GOES-15 (GOES-West) and GOES-13 (GOES-East) 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m […]<\/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":[7,6,11,43,32,12,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-quality","category-fire-detection","category-goes-13","category-goes-15","category-google-earth","category-modis","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811","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=9811"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9813,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811\/revisions\/9813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}