{"id":37950,"date":"2020-08-10T12:59:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T12:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=37950"},"modified":"2020-08-13T20:06:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T20:06:56","slug":"mount-sinabung-eruption-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/37950","title":{"rendered":"Mount Sinabung eruption in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Himawari-8<\/a>

Himawari-8 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>JMA<\/strong><\/a> Himawari-8 True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images created using Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> (above)<\/strong> <\/em>displayed the gray to tan hues of a narrow west-to-east oriented volcanic ash cloud following an eruption of Mount Sinabung<\/strong><\/a> on 10 August 2020.<\/p>\n

A sequence of Terra MODIS False Color RGB<\/strong><\/a>, Ash Probability<\/strong><\/a>, Ash Loading<\/strong><\/a>, Ash Height<\/strong><\/a> and Ash Effective Radius<\/strong><\/a> products from the NOAA\/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring<\/strong><\/a> site (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed various characteristics of the ash plume at 0415 UTC.<\/p>\n

\"Terra<\/a>

Terra MODIS False Color RGB, Ash Probability, Ash Loading, Ash Height and Ash Effective Radius [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A plot of 00 UTC rawinsonde data from Medan (below) <\/strong><\/em>helped to explain the different ash height and ash transport characteristics — the higher-altitude portion of the ash plume was transported westward by easterly flow above the 500 hPa (5.9 km) level, while the lower-altitude portion moved eastward due to westerly winds below 500 hPa.<\/p>\n

\"Plot<\/a>

Plot of 00 UTC rawinsonde data from Medan, Indonesia [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JMA Himawari-8 True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images created using Geo2Grid (above) displayed the gray to tan hues of a narrow west-to-east oriented volcanic ash cloud following an eruption of Mount Sinabung on 10 August 2020. A sequence of Terra MODIS False Color RGB, Ash Probability, Ash Loading, Ash Height and Ash Effective Radius products from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":37956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,12,45,71,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8","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\/37950","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=37950"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37957,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37950\/revisions\/37957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}