{"id":20017,"date":"2015-11-04T23:59:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T23:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=20017"},"modified":"2015-11-06T07:04:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T07:04:27","slug":"mount-rinjani-volcanic-ash-plume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/20017","title":{"rendered":"Mount Rinjani volcanic ash plume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/11\/151103-04_suomi_npp_viirs_truecolor_Mount_Rinjani_ash_plume_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/11\/151103-04_suomi_npp_viirs_truecolor_Mount_Rinjani_ash_plume_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color RGB images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"479\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color RGB images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>The Mount Rinjani volcano in Indonesia began a period of eruptions on 25 October 2015; the ash plume became very apparent on Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images from<a href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\/\"><strong> RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> on 03 and 04 October <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em>. The volcanic ash disrupted flights at Denpasar Airport in Bali <em>(the red dot at the southern tip of the island)<\/em> for several days.<\/p>\n<p>A GOES-R volcanic ash height product (derived using Himawari-8 AHI data) from the <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>SSEC Volcanic Cloud Monitoring<\/strong><\/a> site indicated that the plume reached heights of 10 km <em>(dark blue color enhancement)<\/em> at times during the 03-04 October period <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/11\/151103-04_himawari8_Rinjani_ash_height_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/11\/HIMAWARI-8.AHI.2015-11-04_07-00-00.Ash_Height.Lesser_Sunda_Islands_West_750_m.png\" alt=\"Himawari-8 Volcanic Ash Height product [click to play animation]\" width=\"480\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 Volcanic Ash Height product [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>McIDAS-V images of Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m), near-IR (1.6 \u00b5m), shortwave IR (3.74 \u00b5m), and IR (11.45 \u00b5m) images <em>(<strong>below,<\/strong> courtesy of William Straka, SSEC)<\/em> showed the hot spot and nighttime glow of the summit of the Rinjani volcano at 1733 UTC on 04 November.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/11\/151104_suomi_npp_viirs_ir_dnb_nir_swir_Rinjani_eruption_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/11\/151104_suomi_npp_viirs_ir_dnb_nir_swir_Rinjani_eruption_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m), near-IR (1.6 \u00b5m), shortwave IR (3.74 \u00b5m), and IR (11.45 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge] \" width=\"479\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m), near-IR (1.6 \u00b5m), shortwave IR (3.74 \u00b5m), and IR (11.45 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mount Rinjani volcano in Indonesia began a period of eruptions on 25 October 2015; the ash plume became very apparent on Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images from RealEarth on 03 and 04 October (above). The volcanic ash disrupted flights at Denpasar Airport in Bali (the red dot at the southern tip of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":20022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,62,51,53,45,49,48,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-r","category-himawari-8","category-mcidas-v","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs","category-volcanic-activity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20017","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=20017"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20021,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20017\/revisions\/20021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}