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.