Anticyclone brings sun, warmth and NOx over Europe

Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT acquired on 16 February 2019 from 08:59:49 to 10:43:48 UTC
Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT acquired on 23 February 2019 from 09:18:33 to 11:02:32 UTC
Sentinel-5P TROPOMI NO2 acquired on 26 February 2019 from 12:01:26 to 13:41:25 UTC
Sentinel-3 SLSTR RBT acquired on 27 February 2019 from 09:11:49 to 11:32:17 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Atmosphere, meteorology, climate change, air quality, temperature, cloud, wind, air pollution, Europe
Fig. 1 - S3 SLSTR (16.02.2019) - S5,S3,S2 colour composite - After a mild winter, west and central Europe encountered 2 very sunny weeks.
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Fig. 2 - S3 SLSTR (23.02.2019) - S5,S3,S2 colour composite - Cloudless warm days followed cloudless cool nights.
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Fig. 3 - S3 SLSTR (27.02.2019) - S5,S3,S2 colour composite - An anticyclone west of Europe partly caused this steady sunny weather.
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Fig. 4 - S3 SLSTR (27.02.2019) - S8 thermal band - Along with sunshine, south & west Europe also encountered summer-worthy heat.
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Fig. 5 - TROPOMI (26.02.2019) - NO2 tropospheric column - Windless, urban areas suffered NO2 pollution, notably south UK & north Italy.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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