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Effect of particle non-sphericity on satellite monitoring of drifting volcanic ash clouds
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Flittner, D. E. Krotkov, Nicholay A. Krueger, A. J. Kostinski, A. Riley, C. Rose, W. |
| Copyright Year | 1998 |
| Description | Volcanic eruptions loft gases and ash particles into the atmosphere and produce effects that are both short term (aircraft hazards, interference with satellite measurements) and long term (atmospheric chemistry, climate). Large (greater than 0.5mm) ash particles fall out in minutes [Rose et al, 1995], but fine ash particles can remain in the atmosphere for many days. This fine volcanic ash is a hazard to modem jet aircraft because the operating temperatures of jet engines are above the solidus temperature of volcanic ash, and because ash causes abrasion of windows and airframe, and disruption of avionics. At large distances(10(exp 2)-10(exp 4) km or more) from their source, drifting ash clouds are increasingly difficult to distinguish from meteorological clouds, both visually and on radar [Rose et al., 1995]. Satellites above the atmosphere are unique platforms for viewing volcanic clouds on a global basis and measuring their constituents and total mass. Until recently, only polar AVHRR and geostationary GOES instruments could be used to determine characteristics of drifting volcanic ash clouds using the 10-12 micron window [Prata 1989; Wen and Rose 1994; Rose and Schneider 1996]. The NASA Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instruments aboard the Nimbus-7, Meteor3, ADEOS, and Earth Probe satellites have produced a unique data set of global SO2 volcanic emissions since 1978 (Krueger et al., 1995). Besides SO2, a new technique has been developed which uses the measured spectral contrast of the backscattered radiances in the 330-380nm spectral region (where gaseous absorption is negligible) in conjunction with radiative transfer models to retrieve properties of volcanic ash (Krotkov et al., 1997) and other types of absorbing aerosols (Torres et al., 1998). |
| File Size | 954224 |
| Page Count | 27 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19990025338 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t5fc00r2t |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1998-12-15 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Geophysics Atmospheric Chemistry Spectral Bands Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Volcanology Clouds Meteorology Satellite Observation Radiative Transfer Volcanoes Ashes Jet Engines Operating Temperature Sulfur Dioxides Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
