Real-time Volcanic Cloud Products and Predictions for Aviation Alerts

Dr. Nickolay Anatoly Krotkov1, Eric J Hughes2, Arlindo da SIlva1, Colin J Seftor3, Kelvin W Brentzel4, Seppo Hassinen5, Thomas A Heinrichs6, David J Schneider7, Robert Hoffman8, Tim Myers8, Lawrence E Flynn9, Jianguo Niu10, Nicolas Theys11 and Hugues Henri Brenot12, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)NASA GSFC Direct Readout Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (6)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (7)U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Volcano Observatory, Anchorage, AK, United States, (8)Metron Aviation, Dulles, VA, United States, (9)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (10)IMSG at NOAA STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (11)Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, (12)Belgisch Instituut voor Ruimte-Aeronomie, Brussel, Belgium