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This week’s image of the week focuses on Saharan dust.
The MIDAS project studied the use of scatterometer wind data within mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models.
The cloud patterns are known as von Kármán vortices and are formed over the ocean when islands disrupt the wind flow. The strength of the wind affects the patterns of the swirls.
Storm Kathleen was a deep area of low pressure that moved towards the UK and Ireland from the southwest, bringing unseasonably strong winds and causing travel and power disruption.
Celebrating the eighth anniversary of the launch of Copernicus Sentinel-3A.
The bright offshore bloom is most likely caused by coccolithophores, microscopic single-celled plant-like organisms that live in large numbers throughout the upper layers of the ocean.
Many fires have been affecting Brazil’s northern most state, Roraima.
The study examined the impact of ice and on-ice snow properties of northern lakes.
Celebrating World Wetlands Day.
Wildfires cause huge loss of life in Chile’s Valparaíso region.
EUMETSAT
https://www-cdn.eumetsat.int/files/2024-04/Oc%C3%A9anographie%20operationnelle%20%40EUMETSAT.pdf
Desert dust particles are lifted into the atmosphere by gusts of surface wind and can be transported and deposited thousands of kilometres away.