{"id":42898,"date":"2021-10-19T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=42898"},"modified":"2021-10-21T16:49:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T16:49:41","slug":"eruption-of-manam-in-papua-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/42898","title":{"rendered":"Eruption of Manam in Papua New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 648px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/10\/211019_himawari8_trueColorRGB_Manam_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/10\/Himawari-8_AHI_FLDK_true_color_2021292_223000Z.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 True Color RGB images [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/10\/211019_himawari8_ashRGB_Manam_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manam_Motu\"><strong>Manam<\/strong><\/a> volcano in Papua New Guinea erupted around 2200 UTC on 19 October 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/jma\/indexe.html\"><strong>JMA<\/strong><\/a> Himawari-8 True Color RGB images created using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/software\/geo2grid\/\"><strong>Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed lower- to middle-altitude ash clouds <em>(shades of tan to brown) <\/em>moving westward and northward, while the main eruptive cloud &#8212; composed of a mixture of ash, SO2 and ice particles &#8212; spread out at high altitudes to the east and north. (Side note: brief flashes of sun glint off some of the island rivers were also seen.) \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Retrieved values of Ash Height from the <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>NOAA\/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that the Manam eruption cloud reached maximum altitudes within the 16-18 km range.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/10\/211019_211020_himawari8_ashHeight_Manam_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/10\/211019_2340z_height.png\" width=\"643\" height=\"528\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 Ash Height [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2021\/10\/211019_211020_himawari8_ashHeight_Manam_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manam volcano in Papua New Guinea erupted around 2200 UTC on 19 October 2021. JMA Himawari-8 True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed lower- to middle-altitude ash clouds (shades of tan to brown) moving westward and northward, while the main eruptive cloud &#8212; composed of a mixture of ash, SO2 and ice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":42901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,45,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-volcanic-activity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42898","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=42898"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42917,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42898\/revisions\/42917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}