{"id":26419,"date":"2017-12-20T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=26419"},"modified":"2017-12-20T20:22:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T20:22:47","slug":"eruption-of-the-bezymianni-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/26419","title":{"rendered":"Eruption of the Bezymianni volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/12\/171220_himawari8_Bezymianny_ash_height_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/12\/haimage16.png\" alt=\"Himawari-8 Ash Cloud Height product [click to play animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images and Ash Cloud Height product [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>The Bezymianni volcano on Russia&#8217;s Kamchatka Peninsula erupted at <a href=\"https:\/\/ds.data.jma.go.jp\/svd\/vaac\/data\/TextData\/2017\/20171220_30025000_0028_Text.html\"><strong>0345 UTC<\/strong><\/a> on 20 December 2017 &#8212; an animation of Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images and retrieved Ash Cloud Height product from the <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.ssec.wisc.edu\/\"><strong>NOAA\/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring<\/strong><\/a> site<em><strong> (above)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that the ash reached heights of 18 km (the Tokyo VAAC estimated the ash height to be 50,000 feet or 15.2 km).<\/p>\n<p>An oblique view using GOES-15<em> (GOES-West)<\/em> Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> provided a different perspective of the volcanic cloud immediately following the eruption. The surface report from Shemya (PASY), located in the far western portion of Alaska&#8217;s Aleutian Islands, is plotted in the lower right corner of the images.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/12\/171220_goes15_visible_Bezymianny_volcanic_plume_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/12\/171220_goes15_visible_Bezymianny_volcanic_plume_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-15 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bezymianni volcano on Russia&#8217;s Kamchatka Peninsula erupted at 0345 UTC on 20 December 2017 &#8212; an animation of Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images and retrieved Ash Cloud Height product from the NOAA\/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site (above) indicated that the ash reached heights of 18 km (the Tokyo VAAC estimated the ash height [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":26421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,62,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-15","category-himawari-8","category-volcanic-activity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26419","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=26419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26424,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26419\/revisions\/26424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}