Monday, March 12, 2012

Is dust from Africa going north?


Yesterday I was looking at Terra's satellite imagery and noticed something that looked like a huge dust cloud from the north pole going south; however, after a careful review I came to the conclusion that it is the other way around: it appears that a high concentration of dust aerosols from Africa were somehow compressed into a dense dust cloud and pushed north. I may be wrong of course. Here are two images: 1) True color MODIS-Terra overpasses. 2) The output of my dust aerosol detection algorithm. (Click to zoom in)







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