Dust Blog

Note: These blog posts are informal ad-hoc studies assembled by Professor Emeritus, Joseph Prospero.
July 3, 2020

What was the impact of the Godzilla dust event on PM10 in Florida in Late June 2020?

Joseph M. Prospero, Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

The huge dust event that produced record dust concentrations at Barbados and on the Windward Islands on 21-22 June arrived in... 

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June 23, 2020

Godzilla Dust Event Overview

Joseph M. Prospero, Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

There is much interest in the media about the spectacular African dust event that impacts a huge area of the tropical Atlantic and, now, the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Much of the coverage has been descriptive.

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Cassandra Gaston dust report
June 21, 2020

Godzilla Dust Event Overview

Joseph M. Prospero, Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

The huge dust outbreak continues to move to the west as a coherent mass. From Worldview MODIS on 21 June. The leading edge of the cloud that we have followed for the past few days is located today over the Windward Island...

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joe prospero dust report
June 19, 2020

Mega dust event continues: a record breaker!

Joseph M. Prospero, Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

The dust continues to pour off the coast of West Africa. A huge coherent plume extends to 55W. I have seldom seen such a broad, dense...

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dust report
June 18, 2020

Huge dust event continues to move to the west

Joseph M. Prospero, Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

This is developing into a really huge dust event – probably the first of a series of events that we will follow. So I am following it closely for future reference should we want to ...

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Cassandra Gaston dust report
June 17, 2020

Huge dust outbreak arrives at Barbados: Photos

Joseph M. Prospero, Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

Photos taken today around 5pm in Barbados (one overlooks ragged point)...



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Cassandra Gaston dust report
June 17, 2020

Huge dust outbreak arrives at Barbados conitnues

Joseph M. Prospero, Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

The aerosol optical depth (AOD) increased to 0.4 – for people new to this, this is high. Https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/type_one_station_opera_v2_new? ...

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Cassandra Gaston
June 16, 2020

Huge dust outbreak continues

Joseph M. Prospero, Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

This is MODIS on 16 June. The outbreak seen on 14 June has reached the central Atlantic and a second extremely heavy surge of dust can be seen emerging from the coast of...

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June 15, 2020

Another HUGE dust outbreak underway

Joseph M. Prospero, Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

An extremely intense dust outbreak appeared along the coast of West Africa on 14 June. The MODIS satellite shows dense dust along the coast of Africa from Morocco...

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June 2020

Daily Mean PM10 Measurements in the State of Florida DEP Air Quality Network?

Joseph M. Prospero, Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

 

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