Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch

New Satellite Liaison Blog Post:

A blog post titled “Widespread Dense Blowing Dust Plume – 15 Jan 2021” was recently published. The post demonstrates use of GOES and VIIRS imagery available to forecasters for detecting and tracking a southern plains blowing dust event, including operational perspectives from NWS PUB and NWS AWC.  See Figure below. The link to the post can be found here. (POC: B. Line CoRP/RAMMB, bill.line@noaa.gov; Funding: PDRA)