@sangasso.bsky.social
Research on atmospheric aerosols w/satellites & models. Sharing and commenting on papers and sat images of (my) interest Documenting on #highlatitudedust & #volcanotracks events. Atmos-ocean exchange processes, Atmos. polarization radiative transfer
More accounts of STEM professors discussing how fuckable they think their female students and mentees are in emails with Epstein. Comments on these women's looks come up in emails about their pursuit of professional and academic opportunities.
STEM is hostile to women on so many levels.
The Climate Chronicles is back!
Season 3 — Into the Holocene — opens with one of the great turning points in human history: the emergence of agriculture.
Here's a trailer. You find the full episode wherever you listen to podcasts, or at TheClimateChronicles.com.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSfq...
#dust can cost big money....
This example of a flight diversion reminded me of a study (see @eos.org article) where they looked at the the frequency of presence airborne dust around some major airports.
eos.org/articles/lot...
@kellyhereid.bsky.social
#highlatitudedust
22.02.2026 23:23 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0🛰️🌍🌊🌬️
Major dust cloud travelling from NW Africa to northern South America. This is a good example of intercontinental (natural) pollution transport.
In addition to blocking sunlight, dust carries nutrients and pathogens and impacting ecosystems by deposition along the way.
🛰️ #highlatitudedust #Alaska #dust
21.02.2026 16:11 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0thanks !
21.02.2026 16:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The intense #SaharanDust plume over the North Atlantic is predicted to reach western Europe in the coming days in the #CopernicusAtmosphere forecast. These episodes are not uncommon at this time of the year, particularly impacting air quality and visibility in Canary Islands and Madeira.
20.02.2026 12:05 — 👍 80 🔁 37 💬 5 📌 9
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A dedicated study of a #highlatitudedust source in Patagonia.
Very few studies focusing on sources in this part of the world.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Dust in in the southwest triggered a deadly car accident.
@aerosolwatch.bsky.social @wisc-satellite.bsky.social
wow!
18.02.2026 14:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🛰️After yesterday's #highlatidudedust activity in central Patagonia, a dust cloud traveled about 700km NE. Not a great distance as far as pollution advection, but it is in a direction that you do not see it that often.
18.02.2026 14:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In addition there is dust activity in ElPaso/Ciudad Juarez area, no too obvious in images but it is sort of visible through the cirrus.
@tomgillpredicts.bsky.social
#dust
@aerosolwatch.bsky.social @tomgillpredicts.bsky.social
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17.02.2026 21:35 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0dinner or tea time?
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GOES image showing two dust clouds
earlier MODIS-TEera image shows dust plumes being produced from the shores of Deseado river.
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2 distinctive #highlatitudedust clouds in SW Atlantic today.
One from dry lake Colhue Huapi, dust can be seen very well from a webcam in Comodoro Rivadavia.
The second dust cloud (yellow ) is from earlier dust activity from mudflats along the shore of Deseado river (visible in earlier image)
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13.02.2026 18:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GESAMP report on #microplastics transport into the marine environment is available online.
library.wmo.int/records/item...
@solas-ipo.bsky.social @usocb.bsky.social @geotraces.bsky.social
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The #dust we miss
Late afternoon with an almost totally cloudy Patagonia yesterday.
But in between clouds, there was significant #highlatitudedust activity.
However, there are no sensors there, no satellite information (mostly cloudy) ,so we do not know how long or how much this event was.
🛰️🌋activity today in the South Atlantic. Zadovoski (red) and Saunders (green) islands volcanoes, both active today . Minor activity . They are active because each created a #volcanotrack in the cloud deck above them.
11.02.2026 18:19 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Catchy title for a study on the simulation of non-spherical #aerosol optical properties . Published in an astronomy journal, but the technique is aplicable to atmospheric (ie. Earth) aerosols.
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
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GESAMP report on #microplastics transport into the marine environment is available online.
library.wmo.int/records/item...
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I think it was related to some laser toys....
11.02.2026 22:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🛰️🌋activity today in the South Atlantic. Zadovoski (red) and Saunders (green) islands volcanoes, both active today . Minor activity . They are active because each created a #volcanotrack in the cloud deck above them.
11.02.2026 18:19 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The #dust we miss
Late afternoon with an almost totally cloudy Patagonia yesterday.
But in between clouds, there was significant #highlatitudedust activity.
However, there are no sensors there, no satellite information (mostly cloudy) ,so we do not know how long or how much this event was.
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10.02.2026 19:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Actually I misidentified the #highlatitudedust source. I am not sure that the sources in the mud-flat were active, but certainly the dry Laguna Blanca was emitting a lot of dust (arrow) and likely it is the source of most of the haze.
10.02.2026 17:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0bsky.app/profile/sang...
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Few hours later in the early morning GOES image, there is haze well into the sub-Antarctic waters. The MODIS-Terra overpass (1 hour later) detects the haze as aerosol in moderate quantities (for this region). Eventually it will deposit over the ocean and snow.
