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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-12189-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-12189-2021
Research article
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16 Aug 2021
Research article |  | 16 Aug 2021

Geometric estimation of volcanic eruption column height from GOES-R near-limb imagery – Part 1: Methodology

Ákos Horváth, James L. Carr, Olga A. Girina, Dong L. Wu, Alexey A. Bril, Alexey A. Mazurov, Dmitry V. Melnikov, Gholam Ali Hoshyaripour, and Stefan A. Buehler

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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.
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