Summer on the Northern Hemisphere
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Summer on the Northern Hemisphere

by Maximilian Reuter, Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

The image shows a northern hemispheric summer day of the year 2012. One can see an impressive north Atlantic cyclone, a cloud free Mediterranean Sea, Saharan dust north of the Canary Islands, and cumulus fields near the coast of Namibia and Angola. The image was taken at June 28, 2012 09:00 UTC from the MSG satellite in a geostationary orbit 36000km above the equator.EUMETSAT provided the level 1.5 MSG data.