{"id":62231,"date":"2024-12-23T19:34:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T19:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=62231"},"modified":"2025-01-04T02:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T02:11:11","slug":"eruption-of-kilauea-on-the-big-island-of-hawaii-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/62231","title":{"rendered":"Eruption of Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawai&#8217;i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 2720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/12\/241223_g18_swir_fireMask_HI.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/12\/241223_1251utc_g18_swir_fireMask_HI.png\" width=\"2710\" height=\"1674\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, left) and Fire Mask derived product (right), from 1201 UTC on 23rd December to 0006 UTC on 24th December [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-18 <em>(GOES-West)<\/em> Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) and Fire Mask derived product images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> displayed a pronounced thermal signature associated with an eruption in the Halema&#8217;uma&#8217;u crater (located within the Kilauea summit caldera) on the Big Island of Hawai&#8217;i, which began around 1220 UTC (2:20 AM HST) on 23rd December 2024. Yellow pixels in the Fire Mask product denoted 3.9 \u00b5m brightness temperatures that had reached 137.88\u00baC &#8212; the saturation temperature of GOES-18 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goes-r.gov\/spacesegment\/abi.html\"><strong>ABI<\/strong><\/a> Band 7 detectors &#8212; which first occurred at <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/12\/241223_1251utc_g18_swir_fireMask_HI.png\"><strong>1251 UTC<\/strong><\/a>, about 30 minutes after eruption onset.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Kilauea eruption began during the nighttime hours, its thermal signature was also apparent in GOES-18 Near-Infrared 0.86 \u00b5m, 1.61 \u00b5m and 2.24 \u00b5m spectral bands <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 2720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/12\/241223_g18_nearIR_HI.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/12\/241223_g18_nir_HI.png\" width=\"2710\" height=\"1674\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 Near-Infrared (0.86 \u00b5m, left, 1.61 \u00b5m, middle and 2.24 \u00b5m, right) images, from 1201-1631 UTC on 23rd December [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-18 True Color RGB images from the <a><strong>CSPP GeoSphere<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the southwest transport of volcanic fog (vog) &#8212; a mixture of SO<sub>2<\/sub>, CO<sub>2<\/sub> and water vapor &#8212; from the Kilauea eruption site.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 1311px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/12\/goeswest_abi_radc_true_color_night_s20241223173617_e20241223235617_f77.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/12\/goeswest_abi_radc_true_color_night_20241223184117.png\" width=\"1301\" height=\"744\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 True Color RGB images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-18 <a href=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Quick_Guide_SO2_RGB-1.pdf\"><strong>SO2 RGB<\/strong><\/a> images from <a href=\"realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> confirmed the presence of SO2 (lighter shades of cyan) within the vog plume that was drifting southwest from Kilauea &#8212; the cluster of dark blue pixels denoted the thermal anomaly associated with the eruption site.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 2720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/12\/241223_g18_so2RGB_Kilauea.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/12\/241223_2011utc_g18_so2RGB_Kilauea.png\" width=\"2710\" height=\"1674\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-18 SO2 RGB images, from 1201 UTC on 23rd December to 0301 UTC on 24th December [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) and Fire Mask derived product images (above) displayed a pronounced thermal signature associated with an eruption in the Halema&#8217;uma&#8217;u crater (located within the Kilauea summit caldera) on the Big Island of Hawai&#8217;i, which began around 1220 UTC (2:20 AM HST) on 23rd December 2024. 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