{"id":55417,"date":"2023-11-02T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=55417"},"modified":"2023-11-04T19:26:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T19:26:44","slug":"eruption-of-klyuchevskaya-on-the-kamchatka-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/55417","title":{"rendered":"Eruption of Klyuchevskaya on the Kamchatka Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"

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JMA Himawari-9 Ash RGB images, from 0000 UTC on 31 October to 2300 UTC on 02 November [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>JMA<\/strong><\/a> Himawari-9 Ash RGB<\/strong><\/a> images created using Geo2Grid<\/strong><\/a> (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the complex transport of Kyluchevskaya<\/strong><\/a><\/span> volcanic plumes — which were a mixture of ash (shades of pink to red-orange) and SO2 (brighter shades of yellow) — during the 3-day period from 31 October to 02 November 2023. Much of the transport was influenced by a middle-tropospheric closed low that was progressing from Kamchatka toward the Aleutian Islands (500 hPa analyses<\/strong><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

GOES-18 (GOES-West)<\/em> Air Mass RGB<\/strong><\/a> images (below)<\/strong><\/em> also depicted the volcanic plume — the portions that were dominated by SO2 exhibited brighter shades of pink (since the Red component of this RGB uses the 7.3 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a> spectral band, which is sensitive to SO2 absorption<\/strong><\/a>). Volcanic Ash Advisories cautioned aviation interests of ash extending to altitudes of 36000 ft. <\/span><\/p>\n

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GOES-18 Air Mass RGB images, with plots of Pilot Reports (red) and polygons of Volcanic Ash Advisories\/Forecasts (cyan\/yellow), from 0000 UTC on 31 October to 0140 UTC on 03 November [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>While there were very few Pilot Reports (PIREPs) in the general vicinity of the volcanic plume — since aircraft were wisely avoiding the risk of an ash encounter — there were 3 PIREPs that mentioned Volcanic Ash (VA) (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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GOES-18 Air Mass RGB image at 0120 UTC on 31 October, with a Pilot Report of a thin Volcanic Ash layer at an altitude of 28000 ft [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n

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GOES-18 Air Mass RGB image at 2340 UTC on 02 November, with a Pilot Report of a possible Volcanic Ash plume at an altitude of 35000 ft [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n

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GOES-18 Air Mass RGB image at 0020 UTC on 03 November, with a Pilot Report of faint sulfur odor at Waypoint NATES<\/strong><\/a> (latitude\/longitude 54\u00b0N \/ 172\u00b0E), and haze below an altitude of 28000 ft [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>One of the more explosive events during this prolonged eruption period began around 0220 UTC on 01 November. Radiometrically-retrieved Ash Height and Ash Loading products from the NOAA\/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring<\/strong><\/a> site are shown below — which indicated that the resulting ash-rich volcanic cloud reached heights of 10-12 km.<\/p>\n

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Himawari-9 Ash Height derived product, from 0200-1200 UTC on 01 November [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n

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Himawari-9 Ash Loading derived product, from 0200-1200 UTC on 01 November [click to play animated GIF | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JMA Himawari-9 Ash RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed the complex transport of Kyluchevskaya volcanic plumes — which were a mixture of ash (shades of pink to red-orange) and SO2 (brighter shades of yellow) — during the 3-day period from 31 October to 02 November 2023. Much of the transport was influenced by a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":55421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,114,73,45,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation","category-goes-18","category-himawari-9","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-volcanic-activity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55417","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=55417"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55440,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55417\/revisions\/55440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}