{"id":35176,"date":"2019-12-09T12:59:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T12:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=35176"},"modified":"2019-12-13T16:08:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:08:35","slug":"eruption-of-the-whakaari-volcano-on-white-island-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/35176","title":{"rendered":"Eruption of the Whakaari volcano on White Island, New Zealand"},"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\/12\/191209_himawari8_goes17_visible_White_Island_New_Zealand_volcanic_eruption_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/HIM08_G17_VIS_WHITE_ISLAND_VOLCANO_09DEC2019_B32_2019343_011000_0002PANELS_FRAME00003.GIF\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Red&#8221; Visible <em>(0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images from Himawari-8 <em>(left)<\/em> and GOES-17<em> (right)<\/em> [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/191209_himawari8_goes17_visible_White_Island_New_Zealand_volcanic_eruption_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A brief eruption of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whakaari\/White_Island\"><strong>Whakaari volcano<\/strong><\/a> on White Island, New Zealand occurred around 0110 UTC on 09 December 2019 &#8212; &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/indexe.html\"><strong>JMA<\/strong><\/a> Himawari-8 and GOES-17 <em>(GOES-West)<\/em> showed the small volcanic cloud as it fanned out east of the island <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A signature of the volcanic cloud was also seen in VIIRS True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images from NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP, as viewed using <a href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>. The cloud exhibited a rather warm infrared brightness temperature, since the Wellington VAAC only estimated the maximum height to be<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/191209_noaa20_suomiNPP_viirs_trueColorRGB_Infrared_White_Island_New_Zealand_volcanic_eruption_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/191209_noaa20_suomiNPP_viirs_trueColorRGB_Infrared_White_Island_New_Zealand_volcanic_eruption_anim.gif\" alt=\"VIIRS True Color RGB and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images from NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">VIIRS True Color RGB and Infrared Window<em> (11.45 \u00b5m)<\/em> images from NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>The volcanic plume contained elevated levels of SO2 which drifted south-southeastward, as seen in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/software\/v\/\"><strong>McIDAS-V<\/strong><\/a> image of Sentinel-5 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tropomi.eu\/\"><strong>TROPOMI<\/strong><\/a> Vertical Column SO2 at 0206 UTC<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/191209_0206utc_tropomi_so2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/191209_0206utc_tropomi_so2.jpg\" alt=\"Sentinel-5 TROPOMI Vertical Column SO2 (credit: Bob Carp, SSEC) [click to enlarge]\" width=\"643\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sentinel-5 TROPOMI Vertical Column SO2 (credit: Bob Carp, SSEC) [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief eruption of the Whakaari volcano on White Island, New Zealand occurred around 0110 UTC on 09 December 2019 &#8212; &#8220;Red&#8221; Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images from JMA Himawari-8 and GOES-17 (GOES-West) showed the small volcanic cloud as it fanned out east of the island (above). A signature of the volcanic cloud was also seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":35183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,62,51,78,47,53,45,49,48,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-17","category-himawari-8","category-mcidas-v","category-noaa-20","category-other-satellites","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\/35176","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=35176"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35201,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35176\/revisions\/35201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}