{"id":40051,"date":"2021-02-19T16:59:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=40051"},"modified":"2021-02-26T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:47:10","slug":"eruption-of-mount-etna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/40051","title":{"rendered":"Eruption of Mount Etna"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meteosat-11 False Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>EUMETSAT<\/strong><\/a> Meteosat-11 False Color RGB images from the NOAA\/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring<\/strong><\/a> site (above)<\/strong> <\/em>showed the signature of a volcanic cloud associated with an eruption of Mount Etna on 19 February 2021. The brighter shades of red\/magenta suggested the presence of ash within the volcanic cloud. This was supported by high values of retrieved Ash Loading (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Meteosat-11 Ash Loading product [click to play animation | MP4<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/div>A Meteosat-11 Ash Effective Radius Product (below)<\/strong><\/em> depicted rather large ash particles, generally in the 14-16 \u00b5m range.<\/p>\n

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Meteosat-11 Ash Effective Radius product [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A Meteosat-11 Ash Height product (below) <\/strong><\/em>showed retrieved values up to 12-13 km (magenta enhancement) <\/em>for parts of the volcanic cloud.<\/p>\n

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Meteosat-11 Ash Height product [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Another version of Meteosat-11 False Color RGB images which use 8.7 \u00b5m data (below) <\/em><\/strong>revealed shades of green that indicated a higher concentration of SO2 within the southern portion of the volcanic cloud.<\/p>\n

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Meteosat-11 False Color RGB images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EUMETSAT Meteosat-11 False Color RGB images from the NOAA\/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring site (above) showed the signature of a volcanic cloud associated with an eruption of Mount Etna on 19 February 2021. The brighter shades of red\/magenta suggested the presence of ash within the volcanic cloud. This was supported by high values of retrieved Ash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":40053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,45,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meteosat","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-volcanic-activity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40051","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=40051"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40056,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40051\/revisions\/40056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}