{"id":33928,"date":"2019-08-03T15:59:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T15:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=33928"},"modified":"2019-08-06T22:13:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T22:13:39","slug":"eruption-of-ulawun-in-papau-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/33928","title":{"rendered":"Eruption of Ulawun in Papau, New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190803_himawari8_Ulawun_ash_height_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190803_ulawun_ash_height_15.png\" alt=\"Volcanic ash height [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"642\" height=\"527\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volcanic ash height [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190803_himawari8_Ulawun_ash_height_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ulawun\"><strong>Ulawun<\/strong><\/a> volcano erupted just after 09 UTC on 03 August 2019 &#8212; retrieved Volcanic Ash Height images from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/volcano.ssec.wisc.edu\/\"><strong>NOAA\/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0site<em><strong> (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed values generally in the 16-18 km range, with some portions of the umbrella cloud as high as 18-20 km. An <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190803_1017utc_Ulawun_advisory.png\"><strong>advisory<\/strong><\/a> issued by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bom.gov.au\/aviation\/volcanic-ash\/index.shtml\"><strong>Darwin VAAC<\/strong><\/a> estimated the maximum volcanic ash height to be 63,000 feet or 19.2 km.<\/p>\n<p>Volcanic Ash Loading and Effective Radius products <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that there were high amounts of large ash particles within the volcanic cloud as it drifted southwestward.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190803_himawari8_Ulawun_ash_loading_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190803_ulawun_ash_loading_15.png\" alt=\"Volcanic ash loading [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"642\" height=\"527\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volcanic ash loading [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190803_himawari8_Ulawun_ash_loading_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div><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\/08\/190803_himawari8_Ulawun_ash_radius_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190803_ulawun_ash_radius_15.png\" alt=\"Volcanic ash effective radius [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"641\" height=\"526\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volcanic ash effective radius [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/190803_himawari8_Ulawun_ash_radius_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Ulawun volcano erupted just after 09 UTC on 03 August 2019 &#8212; retrieved Volcanic Ash Height images from the\u00a0NOAA\/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring\u00a0site (above) showed values generally in the 16-18 km range, with some portions of the umbrella cloud as high as 18-20 km. An advisory issued by the Darwin VAAC estimated the maximum volcanic ash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":33931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8","category-volcanic-activity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33928","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=33928"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33947,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33928\/revisions\/33947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}