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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-12189-2021
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Research article
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16 Aug 2021
Research article |
| 16 Aug 2021
| 16 Aug 2021
Geometric estimation of volcanic eruption column height from GOES-R near-limb imagery – Part 1: Methodology
Ákos Horváth
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Meteorological Institute, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
James L. Carr
Carr Astronautics, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Olga A. Girina
Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far East Branch of the
Russian Academy of Sciences (IVS FEB RAS), Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
Dong L. Wu
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Alexey A. Bril
Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SRI RAS),
Moscow, Russia
Alexey A. Mazurov
Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SRI RAS),
Moscow, Russia
Dmitry V. Melnikov
Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far East Branch of the
Russian Academy of Sciences (IVS FEB RAS), Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
Gholam Ali Hoshyaripour
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Stefan A. Buehler
Meteorological Institute, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Short summary
We give a detailed description of a new technique to estimate the height of volcanic eruption columns from near-limb geostationary imagery. Such oblique angle observations offer spectacular side views of eruption columns protruding from the Earth ellipsoid and thereby facilitate a height-by-angle estimation method. Due to its purely geometric nature, the new technique is unaffected by the limitations of traditional brightness-temperature-based height retrievals.
We give a detailed description of a new technique to estimate the height of volcanic eruption...
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