Article
Case Study
Atmospheric Composition
Weather
Meteosat
Satellites
Data
Meteosat Second Generation (MSG)
SEVIRI
Meteosat Third Generation (MTG)
Africa
Asia
GOES
SNPP
VIIRS
ABI
2020
2012
2005
24 Feb 2020 15:00 UTC and 25 Feb 13:00–23:45 UTC
The Dry Conveyor Belt (DCB) is usually free of clouds in the mid and higher levels, so barely traceable on solar imagery, except in February 2020.
8 May 2005 00:00 UTC
Dust crossing the Gulf of Oman in May 2005
28 August 2012
Meteosat-8 celebrated 10 years in space in August 2012.
5 June 2020 00:00 UTC–26 June 21:00 UTC
In June 2020 large amounts of Saharan dust travelled all the way to the Caribbean and the US.