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Red Sea Dust Storm
title Red Sea Dust Storm
date 05.13.2005
description A thick snake of tan dust slithers across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Red Sea in this dramatic true-color image acquired by the Aqua MODIS instrument on May 13, 2005. The dust is so thick that it is completely opaque for well over 700 miles across its south-moving front, from the border of Iraq, across the Arabian Desert of Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and all the way past the green ribbon of the Nile to the Libyan Desert in western Egypt.
Dust Blowing over the Red Se …
Title Dust Blowing over the Red Sea
Description Between eastern Africa (left) and Saudi Arabia (right) a dust cloud was blowing over the Red Sea on June 18, 2003, and was captured in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite. An especially dense plume of dust (tan pixels) sits about halfway up the East African coastline, which is right at the border of Sudan (north) and Eritrea (south). Image by Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Dust Blowing over the Red Se …
Title Dust Blowing over the Red Sea
Description An immense dust storm was blowing over the Red Sea from East Africa on June 21, 2003. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Aqua satellite shows a thick cloud of desert dust shrouding (top left to bottom) Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti. The thick plume stretches across the Red Sea (center) and breaks like a wave across the shores of Saudi Arabia and Yemen (top and bottom right). The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at MODIS' maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
Dust Blowing over the Red Se …
Title Dust Blowing over the Red Sea
Description For almost a week, dust has been sweeping over the Red Sea (center) from East Africa. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) from the Aqua satellite shows the region on June 25, 2003. A thick dust plume (tan pixels) is stretching out from the Sudan coastline (left) and has almost reached Saudi Arabia (right). The entire scene is thinly veiled with a layer of dust, giving the image a soft appearance. Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Dust Plume off the Coast of …
Title Dust Plume off the Coast of Sudan
Description *Dust Plume off the Coast of Sudan* On June 23, 2007, a dust storm began blowing off the coast of Sudan over the Red Sea. By the following day, the dust storm had expanded considerably, stretching across hundreds of kilometers in a southeastern arc. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite took these pictures on June 23 (top) and June 24 (bottom). Besides showing the progress of the dust storm, the June 24 image looks generally fuzzier than the image from the previous day. This is probably not due entirely to dust. The image acquired on June 24 was near the edge of the satellite sensor's field of view. Because it was looking at the Red Sea at an angle that day, the sensor was also looking through a longer path through the atmosphere. Such oblique views can exaggerate the appearance of dust and smog. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?NAfrica_2_07/ ] of this region.
Dust Plume off the Coast of …
Title Dust Plume off the Coast of Sudan
Description *Dust Plume off the Coast of Sudan* On June 23, 2007, a dust storm began blowing off the coast of Sudan over the Red Sea. By the following day, the dust storm had expanded considerably, stretching across hundreds of kilometers in a southeastern arc. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite took these pictures on June 23 (top) and June 24 (bottom). Besides showing the progress of the dust storm, the June 24 image looks generally fuzzier than the image from the previous day. This is probably not due entirely to dust. The image acquired on June 24 was near the edge of the satellite sensor's field of view. Because it was looking at the Red Sea at an angle that day, the sensor was also looking through a longer path through the atmosphere. Such oblique views can exaggerate the appearance of dust and smog. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?NAfrica_2_07/ ] of this region.
Dust Plume over the Red Sea
Title Dust Plume over the Red Sea
Description More dust blew off the coast of Sudan over the Red Sea on June 13, 2007. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying onboard NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, the dust appears as an opaque tan blur over southeastern Sudan and the western fringe of the Red Sea. As in many other dust storms in this area, the dust moves in a clockwise direction, first toward the northeast, then toward the southeast. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?NAfrica_2_07/ ] of this region.
Dust Plume over the Red Sea
Title Dust Plume over the Red Sea
Description Dust blew off the coasts of Sudan and Eritrea on June 7, 2007. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying onboard NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite took this picture the same day. This image shows the tan plume of dust billowing off the arid land surface and over the Red Sea, forming an arc that heads southeast. Overhead, opaque white clouds clutter the sky. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?NAfrica_2_07/ ] of this region.
Dust Storm in Sudan
Title Dust Storm in Sudan
Description On December 27, 2004, a dust storm was blowing over the Nubian Desert in northeastern Sudan, reaching from the Red Sea (top right) to the Nile River (left). The pair of images above shows the event in natural-color, like a digital photograph, as well as a rainbow-colored image that shows temperatures. Both images are made from data collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA?s Aqua satellite. Although the tan-colored dust?concentrated in the center of the images?can be difficult to see against a similarly pale land surface in the natural-color scene at left, the temperature image reveals the location of the dust quite clearly. The airborne dust has a cooling effect on the observed temperatures. The thicker the dust, the cooler the temperatures. In the center of the images, a particularly thick area of dust is as much as 30 degrees Celsius cooler (blue-green area in temperature image) than the surrounding desert. The high-resolution image provided above is 1 kilometer per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides the temperature and natural-color images at additional spatial resolutions. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Dust Storm Over Red Sea
Title Dust Storm Over Red Sea
Description On August 14, 2003, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite captured this image of a dust-swept Red Sea. The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at MODIS' maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
Dust Storm over the Red Sea
Title Dust Storm over the Red Sea
Description A dust storm swept over the Red Sea on June 21, 2005. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying onboard the Aqua [ http://www.aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this image the same day. Dust obscured the satellite?s view of the Red Sea and the neighboring countries: Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia on the west, and Saudi Arabia and Yemen on the East. Most of Earth?s dust storms arise in a few regions, including the Sahara and the Middle East. As desertification increases, dust storms are likely to follow. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment has just released its Desertification Synthesis [ http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.aspx ]. The report predicts that the planet?s dry regions will spread as the land surface responds to increased human pressure from poor crop and soil management and irrigation misuse. NASA image courtesy of Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ], NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center.
Dust Storm over the Red Sea
Title Dust Storm over the Red Sea
Description The dust plume [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13665 ] that blew off the coast of Sudan on June 21, 2006, had petered out a day later. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying onboard NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite took this picture on June 22. In this image, the dust plume has dissipated and heads southward over the Red Sea toward the coasts of Eritrea and Yemen. Largely opaque the day before, the dust plume is now thin enough to show the ocean's surface. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the Goddard Earth Sciences DAAC. [ http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ]
Dust Storm over the Red Sea
Title Dust Storm over the Red Sea
Description Just days after a June 21 dust storm, another thick plume of dust blew off the east coast of Sudan on June 28, 2006. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying onboard NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, the dust plume blows off the coast and forms an arc over the Red Sea, headed toward the southeast. Along the Sudanese coast is a dry salt lake, which could provide some of the dust in this storm. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?NAfrica_2_07/ ] of this region.
Dust Storm over the Red Sea
Title Dust Storm over the Red Sea
Description Another dust storm blew off the coast of Sudan on July 4, 2006. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying onboard NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, a thick plume of tan dust blows off the coast, near the border with Eritrea, gradually fanning out as it moves over the Red Sea. Another plume blows off the coast of Sudan to the north. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?NAfrica_2_07/ ] of this region.
Dust Storm over the Red Sea
Title Dust Storm over the Red Sea
Description Another dust storm blew off the coast of Sudan over the Red Sea on August 5, 2006. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying onboard NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, the dust appears in beige. Multiple plumes of varying width and opacity all blow toward the east in a slightly clockwise direction over the Red Sea. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?NAfrica_2_07 ] of this region.
Dust Storm over the Red Sea
Title Dust Storm over the Red Sea
Description On December 17, 2006, a plume of dust from Saudi Arabia crossed the Red Sea toward Sudan. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying onboard NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, the northern plume looks like a funnel cloud laid on its side—a thin band that spreads out in the west. Tiny white dots of clouds fringe the plume along its western edge. These clouds could have formed along the edge of an air mass that prevents the plume from pushing farther west. At the origin of the northern plume is a red dot indicating a hotspot—an unusually warm area detected by MODIS. Although the hotspot suggests the plume is smoky, its color so closely matches the ground it came from that it is probably dust, not smoke. A smaller plume, also likely comprised of dust, appears to the south. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?NAfrica_2_07 ] of this region.
Dust storms out of Egypt
Title Dust storms out of Egypt
Description The deep blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea were shrouded in dust from North African deserts on January 29, 2005. A dusty haze stretches across the center and top parts of the scene from the Gulf of Sirte (left center edge), past the Nile Delta (right of center), all the way to Turkey (top right). The Red Sea (lower right corner) appears to be dust free. Between the knob of land in Libya just east of the Gulf of Sirte and the green fan of the Nile Delta lies a large desert called the Great Sand Sea. Dust storms are a serious natural hazard in the region, particularly for aircraft. This image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the MODIS Rapid Response team.
Jebel at Tair Eruption
Title Jebel at Tair Eruption
Description Jebel at Tair, a small volcanic island in the Red Sea, erupted late in the day on September 30, 2007, causing several casualties and leaving a number of Yemeni soldiers missing, according to news reports. A Canadian Navy spokesman, who was in the area at the time, described a "giant light show" with spewing lava and an ash cloud reaching hundreds of meters into the air. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite captured this image of the diminutive volcanic island on October 1, 2007. The haze over the ocean likely results from the eruption, probably a combination of ash and vog—volcanic smog that arises from the mixture of sulfur dioxide, oxygen, and moisture. North of the island appears an area of potentially disturbed water, perhaps caused by ash in the water and/or hot lava leading to water heating and discoloration. Midway between Yemen and Eritrea, Jebel at Tair [ http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0201-01= ] is a stratovolcano composed of alternating layers of hardened lava, solidified ash, and rocks ejected by previous eruptions. The island is also known as Jabal al-Tair, Jabal al-Tayr, Tair Island, Al-Tair Island, and Jazirat at-Tair. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Yemen has maintained a military base since 1996 on this volcanic island, which is only about 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) long. Yemen's oil minister stated that earthquakes, registering between 4 and 4.3 in magnitude struck the island on September 30 and likely triggered the eruption. NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. Thanks to Simon Carn, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology [ http://www.jcet.umbc.edu/ ] (JCET), University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), and Gene Carl Feldman, Goddard Space Flight Center, for image interpretation.
Northern Africa Fire Season
Title Northern Africa Fire Season
Description In Northern Africa, the Sahara Desert transitions into a semi-arid zone of grass and scattered shrubby vegetation known as the Sahel. Farther south, the Sahel turns into more thickly vegetated savanna. For thousands of years, African farmers and herders have set fires in these regions to manage natural resources, for example, to clear brush, to stimulate new growth of pasture grasses, or to drive game. These continent-spanning fires occur in different seasons, depending on the latitude. This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite captured on November 20, 2006, captures the northern Africa fire season fully underway. Hundreds, possible thousands, of active fires that MODIS detected are marked with red dots. The fires span countries all the way across Africa from the Atlantic Ocean (image left) to the Red Sea (upper right). Although these fires are not necessarily immediately hazardous, such large-scale burning can nevertheless have a strong impact on weather, climate, human health, and natural resources. The spottier vegetation of the Sahel has a dull, faint brownish-green appearance, while the savannas appear darker green. The dark-colored rocks that crop up out the sands of the Sahara Desert document the region's volcanic past. In the center of the image, a bright plume of dust whisks west-southwest from the Bodele Depression, one of the world's single largest sources of dust. Southwest of the depression, a bright green patch is vegetation growing in and around Lake Chad. The haze farther west of the lake may be a mixture of smoke and dust. This image was made from three successive overpasses of the Aqua satellite over North Africa. The white strips in the scene are the gaps between swaths. The high-resolution image provided above has a spatial resolution of 1 kilometer per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides twice-daily images of sub-sections of North Africa in additional (higher) resolutions via a clickable map. [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/ ] NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center.
Saharan Dust over the Red Se …
Title Saharan Dust over the Red Sea
Description A thick plume of desert dust (tan colored) was blowing eastward out of southern Egypt and Sudan, and out over the Red Sea on September 1, 2004. The dust is so thick in many places that it completely blocks the view of the surface. This true-color scene was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA's Aqua satellite. The high-resolution image available here is 250 meters per pixel. NASA image by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data courtesy MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ]
Dust Plume over the Red Sea: …
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Dust blew off the coasts of …
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Dust Plumes over the Red Sea …
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Dust Storms over the Middle …
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Dust plumes lingered over th …
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Dust Plume over the Red Sea: …
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More dust blew off the coast …
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Jebel at Tair Eruption: Natu …
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Jebel at Tair, a small volca …
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Dust Storm over the Red Sea: …
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A dust storm swept over the …
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Dust Blowing over the Red Se …
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An immense dust storm was bl …
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Northern Africa Fire Season: …
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In Northern Africa, the Saha …
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Dust Blowing over the Red Se …
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Thick plumes of dust have be …
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Dust Blowing over the Red Se …
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Between eastern Africa (left …
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Saharan Dust over the Red Se …
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A thick plume of desert dust …
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Dust Blowing over the Red Se …
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For almost a week, dust has …
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Dust Storm over the Red Sea: …
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Dust Storm in Sudan: Natural …
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On December 27, 2004, a dust …
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Dust Storm over the Red Sea: …
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Just days after a June 21 du …
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Dust Storm over the Red Sea: …
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Dust continued blowing off t …
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Dust Plume off the Coast of …
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Dust Storm over the Red Sea: …
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Another dust storm blew off …
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Dust storms out of Egypt: Na …
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The deep blue waters of the …
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Dust Sweeps over the Red Sea …
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A thick band of dust was sna …
redsea_amo_2005133
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