Saharan Dust 2024 Map. You can see that in the map above as an expansive mass of tan contours extending from africa over 1,000 miles westward into the atlantic ocean, as well as. Data from the copernicus sentinel satellites and esa’s aeolus satellite show the extent of this year’s summer dust plume, dubbed ‘godzilla,’ on its.
From the late spring to early fall, the saharan air layer, a large plume of super dry and very dusty air that originates over the saharan desert in africa makes a trek. The copernicus atmosphere monitoring service (cams) is continuing to track a saharan dust transport episode that started over the weekend.