{"id":13329,"date":"2013-06-25T23:45:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T23:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=13329"},"modified":"2013-06-26T02:55:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T02:55:01","slug":"eruption-of-pavlof-volcano-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/13329","title":{"rendered":"Eruption of the Pavlof Volcano in Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-15<\/a>

GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

According to the Alaska Volcano Observatory<\/a><\/strong>, the Pavlof Volcano<\/a><\/strong> began to experience a vigorous eruption around 06:50 UTC on 25 June 2013. As daylight arrived a few hours later, the volcanic plume (which contained some ash)<\/em> was evident on McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong>. The high-altitude portion of the volcanic plume was estimated to be around 28,000 feet above sea level — this darker-gray plume could be seen drifting northwestward above the lower-altitude clouds over the southern Bering Sea.<\/p>\n

During the early morning, a warm thermal anomaly of 42.85\u00c2\u00ba C (darker black enhancement)<\/em> could be seen at the location of the volcano on a 4-km resolution GOES-15 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel image at 14:45 UTC (below)<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-15<\/a>

GOES-15 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR channel image<\/p><\/div>\n

Even with a very large oblique viewing alngle from the Japanese MTSAT-2 satallite, the volcanic cloud and plume rising from the Pavlof Volcano (denoted by the letter “P”)<\/em> could be seen on a visible channel image at 15:01 UTC (below)<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"MTSAT-2<\/a>

MTSAT-2 visible image<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the Alaska Volcano Observatory, the Pavlof Volcano began to experience a vigorous eruption around 06:50 UTC on 25 June 2013. As daylight arrived a few hours later, the volcanic plume (which contained some ash) was evident on McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-15","category-mtsat","category-volcanic-activity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13329"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13333,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13329\/revisions\/13333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}