{"id":1806415,"date":"2022-03-17T11:14:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T15:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1806415"},"modified":"2022-03-17T11:14:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T15:14:49","slug":"saharan-dust-in-western-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/saharan-dust-in-western-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Saharan Dust in Western Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1806416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1806416\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/149588\/an-atmospheric-river-of-dust\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1806416\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/saharan-dust-in-western-europe\/eo-saharan-dust\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/eo-saharan-dust.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1520,800\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"eo-saharan-dust\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;NASA Earth Observatory\/Joshua Stevens&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/eo-saharan-dust-300x158.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/eo-saharan-dust-1024x539.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1806416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/eo-saharan-dust-1024x539.jpg\" alt=\"Map showing dust plumes from Africa spreading across Europe\" width=\"760\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/eo-saharan-dust-1024x539.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/eo-saharan-dust-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/eo-saharan-dust-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/eo-saharan-dust-940x495.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/eo-saharan-dust-760x400.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/eo-saharan-dust.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1806416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA Earth Observatory\/Joshua Stevens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A dust plume from the Sahara, driven by an atmospheric river, blew across western Europe this week, and friends from Spain to Germany experienced it. <a href=\"https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/149588\/an-atmospheric-river-of-dust\">NASA Earth Observatory has satellite imagery of the plume, plus maps<\/a> (above) showing &ldquo;a model of the dust plumes blowing across North Africa and into Europe on March 14 and 15. The model was generated by the Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 (GEOS-5), a global atmospheric model that uses mathematical equations to represent physical processes. Measurements of physical properties like temperature, moisture, and wind speeds and directions are routinely folded into the model to keep the simulation as close to observed reality as possible.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dust plume from the Sahara, driven by an atmospheric river, blew across western Europe this week, and friends from Spain to Germany experienced it. NASA Earth Observatory has satellite imagery of the plume, plus&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/saharan-dust-in-western-europe\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1570,11,548,12,1569],"class_list":["post-1806415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-weather-and-climate","tag-dust-plumes","tag-earth-observatory","tag-europe","tag-nasa","tag-sahara","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5222,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/10\/mapping-the-northern-california-wildfires\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806415,"position":0},"title":"Mapping the Northern California Wildfires","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 October 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Maps and satellite imagery of the wildfires in Northern California include the San Francisco Chronicle\u2019s interactive map; Robin Kraft's interactive map \u00a0showing satellite imagery from before and after the fire; this New York Times page mapping building damage in Santa Rosa; the\u00a0Washington Post\u2019s coverage of the devastation; and NASA Earth\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disasters","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/disasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"NASA Earth Observatory","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nasa-norcal-wildfires-1024x546.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nasa-norcal-wildfires-1024x546.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nasa-norcal-wildfires-1024x546.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nasa-norcal-wildfires-1024x546.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1789125,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/08\/drought-affects-one-third-of-the-united-states\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806415,"position":1},"title":"Drought Affects One-Third of the United States","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 August 2020","format":"image","excerpt":"One-third of the United States is currently affected by at least moderate levels of drought, NASA Earth Observatory reports. 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