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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.
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- Europe (3769)
- Southern Europe (1624)
- Greece (312)
- Exact location (24.8882 E, 41.1409 N)
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Canon EOS 350D
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2008
Submitted on 6 August 2008
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Evangelos Karageorgos (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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Konstantinos Kourtidis 13 years, 10 months ago
Perhaps the event shown at Xanthi is from 25 March 2008? For this date, another image is posted from Xanthi
Evangelos Karageorgos 13 years, 10 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