{"id":33752,"date":"2019-07-19T18:59:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T18:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=33752"},"modified":"2019-07-21T20:50:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T20:50:26","slug":"eruption-of-the-ubinas-volcano-in-southern-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/33752","title":{"rendered":"Eruption of the Ubinas volcano in southern Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/190719_goes16_ashRGB_so2RGB_naturalColorRGB_Ubinas_volcano_Peru_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/peru_so2-20190719_160041.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 Ash, SO2 and CIMSS Natural Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"641\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Ash, SO2 and CIMSS Natural Color RGB images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/190719_goes16_ashRGB_so2RGB_naturalColorRGB_Ubinas_volcano_Peru_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A sequence of GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> Ash, SO2 and CIMSS Natural Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed the volcanic cloud following an eruption of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ubinas\"><strong>Ubinas<\/strong><\/a> in southern Peru on 19 July 2019. The volcanic plume was rich in both ash and SO2.<\/p>\n<p>A plot\u00a0of surface data from La Paz, Bolivia <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that the visibility dropped to 3 miles around 16 UTC as the volcanic cloud was drifting over that area (located about 150 miles downwind of Ubinas).<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/190719_SLLP_SFCMG.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/190719_SLLP_SFCMG.GIF\" alt=\"Time series of surface data from La Paz, Bolivia [click to enlarge]\" width=\"642\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Time series of surface data from La Paz, Bolivia [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>Terra MODIS Ash Probability, Ash Loading, Ash Height and Ash Effective Radius from the <a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.ssec.wisc.edu\/\"><strong>NOAA\/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring<\/strong><\/a> site<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> confirmed the high amounts of ash loading (of generally small ash particles) &#8212; with maximum radiometrically-retrieved Ash Height values in the 18-20 km range.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/190719_1440utc_terra_modis_ashProbability_ashLoading_ashHeight_ashEffectiveRadius_Ubinas_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/190719_1440utc_terra_modis_ashProbability_ashLoading_ashHeight_ashEffectiveRadius_Ubinas_anim.gif\" alt=\"Terra MODIS Ash Probability, Ash Loading, Ash Height and Ash Effective Radius at 1440 UTC [click to enlarge]\" width=\"642\" height=\"526\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terra MODIS Ash Probability, Ash Loading, Ash Height and Ash Effective Radius at 1440 UTC [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>GOES-16 retrieved Ash Height values <em><strong>(below)<\/strong> <\/em>were in general agreement with those obtained using the higher-resolution MODIS data.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/190719_goes16_Ubinas_volcano_ashHeight_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/haimage_29.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 Ash Height images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"643\" height=\"528\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Ash Height images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/07\/190719_goes16_Ubinas_volcano_ashHeight_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sequence of GOES-16 (GOES-East) Ash, SO2 and CIMSS Natural Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images (above) showed the volcanic cloud following an eruption of Ubinas in southern Peru on 19 July 2019. The volcanic plume was rich in both ash and SO2. A plot\u00a0of surface data from La Paz, Bolivia (below) indicated that the visibility dropped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":33754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,12,45,71,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-modis","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-terra","category-volcanic-activity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33752","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=33752"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33778,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33752\/revisions\/33778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}