African dust over Northern Greece
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Description:
Reduced visibility over Xanthi, NE Greece during a Saharan dust incident in mid-April 2008.
Credit:
Evangelos Karageorgos
, Laboratory of
Atmospheric Pollution and Pollution Control Engineering, DUTh , Xanthi - Greece
Other images/videos by this photographer (8 images)
When:
Taken on April 1, 2008 and submitted on August 6, 2008
Sections:
- Atmospheric Sciences (269 images)
Categories:
- Field (1259 images)
Camera:
Canon
Model:
EOS 350D
it was actually shot on April 13th, when another Saharan dust incident was recorded.
I have uploaded an indicative Hysplit plot here:
http://www.env.duth.gr/APL/images/343315_trj001.gif
The same file in .kmz can be found here:
http://www.env.duth.gr/APL/images/HYSPLITtraj_343315.kmz
Posted by Evangelos Karageorgos on August 27, 2010 11:42
Perhaps the event shown at Xanthi is from 25 March 2008? For this date, another image is posted from Xanthi
Posted by Konstantinos Kourtidis on August 27, 2010 11:18