Clouds forming in salt-dust plumes
off the eastern shores of the Aral Sea
grain of salt", Geophys. Res. Lett. 29(21) (2002).]
Link to preprint: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/ESER/People/Yinon-Rudich/Level2/publication.html
NOAA -AVHRR satellite image (11 May 1998 09:32 UT) showing clouds forming in salt-dust plumes off the eastern shores of the Aral Sea (frames 2 and 3). Clouds outside the dust storm are shown in frames 1 and 4. The visible channel modulates the red, the 3.7 micro meter reflectance component modulates the green, and the temperature modulates the blue. Therefore, clouds with large droplet sizes appear in red while yellow clouds have smaller droplet sizes. The dust is the intense yellow blur. The warm and dark surface background appears in blue. In addition to showing the microphysical effects of salt dust on clouds, the figure exemplifies the extent of the Aral Sea shrinking (The black outline of the coastline is from 1980,and the actual 1998 coastline).
