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Use of SEVIRI images and derived products in a WMO Sand and Dust Storm Warning System
Title: | Use of SEVIRI images and derived products in a WMO Sand and Dust Storm Warning System |
Authors: | Martínez Rubio, Miguel Ángel
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Keywords: | SEVIRI; Dust storm; Sand storm; Warning system |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
Publisher: | IOP Publishing |
Citation: | IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 2009, 7, p. 1-7 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1307/7/1/012004 |
Abstract: | The Visible/IR images of SEVIRI (Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager), on board Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites, are used to monitor dust events. Satellite-based detection of dust is a difficult problem due in part to the observing-system limitations. The main difficulty is that the dust can be confused with water/ice clouds. SEVIRI is not as optimal for the viewing of dust as SEAWIFS or MODIS, due to the fact that both of them count with additional short-wavelength channels. However, the SEVIRI 15-minute loop images can detect small dust plumes as well as subtle changes from one image to the next. A description of how the AEMET, former INM, is developing the environment to support MSG satellite imagery to the WMO/GEO Sand and Dust Storm Warning System (SDS WS) for Europe, Africa and Middle East Regional Centre will be briefly presented, together with some on-going operational developments to best monitor dust events. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/7613 |
ISSN: | 1755-1307 1755-1315 |
Appears in Collections: | Artículos científicos 2005-2009 |
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