TY - JOUR
T1 - Detection of dust plumes and their sources in northeastern Libya
AU - Koren, Ilan
AU - Joseph, Joachim H.
AU - Israelevich, Peter
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was performed while I.K. held a National Research Council Research Associateship Award at NASA–GSFC. The study was also financed by the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport under contract 0603410962. All the images in this paper were provided by the SeaWiFS project, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, Md.) and ORBIMAGE (Dulles, Va.).
PY - 2003/12/1
Y1 - 2003/12/1
N2 - The common source area of long and narrow dust plumes that emanate frequently from an area southeast of Benghazi in Libya is identified by computerized image analysis. Four examples are shown in SeaWiFS data at that location. Similar plumes are found in many locations over the globe. The direction of propagation of plumes from the source depends on the synoptic situation. Plumes travel both northwards, reaching the Mediterranean Sea, and southwards, to the interior of the Sahara. Such plumes may ultimately assemble into massive dust palls that frequently travel long distances out of North Africa.
AB - The common source area of long and narrow dust plumes that emanate frequently from an area southeast of Benghazi in Libya is identified by computerized image analysis. Four examples are shown in SeaWiFS data at that location. Similar plumes are found in many locations over the globe. The direction of propagation of plumes from the source depends on the synoptic situation. Plumes travel both northwards, reaching the Mediterranean Sea, and southwards, to the interior of the Sahara. Such plumes may ultimately assemble into massive dust palls that frequently travel long distances out of North Africa.
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U2 - 10.5589/m03-036
DO - 10.5589/m03-036
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AN - SCOPUS:2942603413
SN - 0703-8992
VL - 29
SP - 792
EP - 796
JO - Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing
JF - Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing
IS - 6
ER -