Saharan outbreak often occurs across the Atlantic. Here, a big plume was captured by OLCI sensor . A big fraction of it usually travels across-Atlantic and one may think it doesn't come back to us...

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Imagen del satélite en su órbita sobre Gran Canaria tomada por el sistema a las 11:19:45 UTC. Estas son las vistas capturadas por el instrumento SLSTR (que muestra puntos calientes) y por el (mostrando el penacho de humo) pasó hace 4 hs.

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Today the 🇪🇺🛰️ orbit took the spacecraft over Gran Canaria at 11:19:45 UTC
These are the views captured by the SLSTR instrument (showing hot spots) and by the (showing the smoke plume)
passed ~ 4 hours ago and we are expecting images soon

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Spot the eddies! It's been a good week for ocean colour remote sensing to the west of the UK, this one from (enhancing the green-blue water colours so it would not appear as red in reality). Turqoise swirls are the coccolithophore bloom.

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