A fissure eruption on the Kilauea volcano on the island of Hawaii began on 05 March 2011 — and 3 days later, McIDAS images of GOES-11 3.9 µm shortwave IR data (above; click image to play animation) displayed a prominent “hot spot” (yellow to red enhanced pixels) during the day... Read More
McIDAS images of GOES-13 and GOES-12 3.9 µm shortwave IR (IR channel 2) data (above) revealed the “hot spot” (yellow to red color enhancement) due to the eruption of the Tungurahua volcano in the South American country of Ecuador on 04 December 2010. The summit of the volcano is located south-southeast... Read More
The Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull (which started to become active again in late March 2010) continued to remain active into early May, with another significant plume being observed on 06 May 2010. EUMETSAT Meteosat-9 SEVIRI volcanic ash retrieval products (above) showed a plume streaming southeastward from Iceland, with the maximum ash cloud height reaching 17.27 km. These volcanic ash... Read More
The eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano on southern Iceland continued on 19 April 2010 (in addition, see the previous CIMSS Satellite Blog entries published on 15 April and 21 March). A McIDAS Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image composite using Aqua MODIS channels 01/04/03 (above) revealed yet another large ash plume streaming southward over the North Atlantic... Read More
