Mount Tongariro in New Zealand (on the North Island) erupted on Monday, August 6th, for the first time in a century. A Suomi-NPP overpass at 12:52 UTC, approximately one hour after the eruption, allowed the day-night band to capture an image of the volcanic plume as it moved eastward across... Read More

According to the Alaska Volcano Observatory, the Mount Cleveland volcano erupted around 22:05 UTC on 19 June 2012 (volcanic activity notice). A comparison of AWIPS images of the MODIS volcanic ash mass loading, ash height, and ash effective radius products (above) showed the volcanic ash plume about 1 hour and 40 minutes later (23:44 UTC). The... Read More

A small volcanic ash plume from Popocatépetl in central Mexico was seen streaming east-southeastward on GOES-15 (GOES-West), GOES-12, and GOES-13 (GOES-East) visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) during the early morning hours on 18 April 2012. Satellite imagery over this particular region is available... Read More

The Nabro volcano erupted in the northeast Africa country of Eritrea on 12 June 2011. An oblique view using the Chinese FY-2E satellite (positioned over the Equator at 105º East longitude) 0.73 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the volcanic plume streaming northwestward... Read More