African dust over Northern Greece
by Evangelos Karageorgos, Laboratory of Atmospheric Pollution and Pollution Control Engineering, DUTh, Xanthi, Greece
Reduced visibility over Xanthi, NE Greece during a Saharan dust incident in mid-April 2008.
Taken on 1
April
2008
Submitted on Aug. 6, 2008
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- Europe (3535)
- Southern Europe (1526)
- Greece (307)
- Exact location (24.8882 E, 41.1409 N)
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aerosol, visibility, saharan dust
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Credit: Evangelos Karageorgos (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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Konstantinos Kourtidis 12 years, 9 months ago
Perhaps the event shown at Xanthi is from 25 March 2008? For this date, another image is posted from Xanthi
Evangelos Karageorgos 12 years, 9 months ago
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