Dust intrusion

Saharan dust intrusions along February 2021

By |March 9th, 2021|Categories: Aerosols & Dust Events|Tags: , |

In recent weeks several episodes of intrusion of Saharan dust have affected the Iberian Peninsula and other parts of Europe. We show here how these episodes have been detected by different instruments which are routinely measuring in the stations managed by Nubesol-2 researchers. We can observe, in the movie for February 3rd, the Moon trajectory during the nighttime, and the Sun trajectory during the daytime. Both Moon and Sun show reduced aureole, in correspondence with the low aerosol load in the atmosphere for that period. Contrarily, in the movie showing sky evolution along February 6th, and during the daytime period, [...]

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