{"id":1475,"date":"2017-01-03T14:22:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.100.1.143\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2019-06-04T15:26:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T19:26:47","slug":"is-it-cloud-or-is-it-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/03\/is-it-cloud-or-is-it-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it Cloud or is it Dust?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"http:\/\/10.100.1.143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1982v1_20161228-RGBDustB.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imsg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1982v1_20161228-RGBDustB.png 960w, https:\/\/www.imsg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1982v1_20161228-RGBDustB-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.imsg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1982v1_20161228-RGBDustB-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.imsg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1982v1_20161228-RGBDustB-700x394.png 700w, https:\/\/www.imsg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1982v1_20161228-RGBDustB-539x303.png 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A large dust cloud hangs over the Atlantic along the northwestern \ncoast of Africa in this color-enhanced image captured by the NOAA\/NASA \nSuomi NPP satellite\u2019s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) \ninstrument on December 27, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bright colors shown here are the result of a \u201cdust enhancement\u201d \u2014\n an experimental data product created by scientists at the European \nOrganisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (aka: \nEUMETSAT). Based on infrared channel data, this RGB (red-green-blue) \nenhancement was created to help analysts monitor the evolution of dust \nstorms. According to EUMETSAT, monitoring of dust in the atmosphere 24 \nhours a day can be a challenge because the appearance of dust in \nsatellite imagery changes drastically from day to night. Incorporating \nVIIRS day\/night band into the mix of channels used to produce these \nimages makes it easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So where is the dust visible in this image? Well, it\u2019s not \nrepresented by the orange\/brown color\u2013that\u2019s atmospheric moisture. \nRather, the dust appears as magenta or pink. The other colors denote the\n following: Reds mark thick cirrus clouds, dark blues are thin cirrus \nclouds, and the other shades of blue indicate the surface (land and \nwater) of the Earth. The bright yellow is the hot surface of the Sahara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to full article:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnvl.noaa.gov\/MediaDetail2.php?MediaID=1982&amp;MediaTypeID=1\">https:\/\/www.nnvl.noaa.gov\/MediaDetail2.php?MediaID=1982&amp;MediaTypeID=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large dust cloud hangs over the Atlantic along the northwestern coast of Africa in this color-enhanced image captured by the NOAA\/NASA Suomi NPP satellite\u2019s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on December 27, 2016. The bright colors shown here are the result of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}