{"id":14871,"date":"2014-02-02T12:59:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T12:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=14871"},"modified":"2014-02-03T15:34:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T15:34:43","slug":"eruption-of-the-tungurahua-volcano-in-ecuador-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/14871","title":{"rendered":"Eruption of the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GOES-13 false-color RGB images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

After 2 days of renewed activity, the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador produced some minor eruptions punctuated by a single large eruption on 01 February 2014. GOES-13 false-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images\u00c2\u00a0specifically tailored to help identify and track volcanic features (above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed (1) the southeastward drift of the initial volcanic plume (estimated to be as high as 26,000 feet<\/strong><\/a>)<\/em> from 19:45 – 22:15 UTC, followed by (2) the rapid expansion and southward drift of the larger volcanic plume (estimated to be as high as 45,000 feet<\/strong><\/a>)<\/em> after 22:45 UTC, and (3) another smaller volcanic plume (estimated to be as high as 23,000 feet<\/strong><\/a>)<\/em> drifting southeastward after 02:45 UTC on 02 February.<\/p>\n

McIDAS images of GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR data (below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the presence of a distinct “hot spot” (dark black to yellow to red enhancement)<\/em> at the summit of the volcano after 22:45 UTC — the hottest pixel detected was 338.5 K or 66.4\u00c2\u00ba C at 00:45 UTC on 02 February.<\/p>\n

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GOES-13 3.9 \u00c2\u00b5m shortwave IR images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

As the sun was setting, the rapidly-rising volcanic ash plume associated with the stronger eruption cast a long shadow toward the east-northeast on the 22:45 UTC GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel image (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel image<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After 2 days of renewed activity, the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador produced some minor eruptions punctuated by a single large eruption on 01 February 2014. GOES-13 false-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images\u00c2\u00a0specifically tailored to help identify and track volcanic features (above; click image to play animation) showed (1) the southeastward drift of the initial volcanic plume (estimated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":14873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,45,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-13","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-volcanic-activity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871","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=14871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14876,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871\/revisions\/14876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}