A050
Convective and Volcanic Clouds, monitoring, modeling and mitigation practices

Session ID#: 78119

Session Description:
The frequency and intensity of extreme convective events are expected to increase under climate change conditions. Convective weather, including convection caused or influenced by volcanic activity, is a major hazard with significant economic impacts. For instance, it is well known that volcanic ash, originating from convective columns, can severely damage aircraft systems and engines. The mix of meteorological and volcano influenced convective clouds is a real challenge as demonstrated by the recent Anak Krakatau eruption.

There is an urgent need to develop new techniques and instruments for monitoring and modeling hazardous convective and volcanic clouds and to develop early warning systems in support of operational decision-making.

The aim of the session is to promote discussions on current and future developments related to understanding, monitoring, and forecasting convective and volcanic clouds with the goal of advancing hazard mitigation.

Co-Organized:
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3314 Convective processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
8409 Atmospheric effects [VOLCANOLOGY]

Primary Convener:  Stefano Corradini, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Nazionale Terremoti, Rome, Italy
Conveners:  Riccardo Biondi, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Michael Pavolonis Sr., NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, United States and Isabelle Taylor, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Stefano Corradini, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Nazionale Terremoti, Rome, Italy
 
Convective Rainfall Anomalies Affecting Socio-Economic Importance as a Result of Climate Change; A Case Study of South West Nigeria. (486478)
Olusegun Aremu, Nigerian Meteorological Agency, Abuja, Nigeria
 
Remote Sensing of Volcanic Emissions with a SmallSat, the Volcanic Emissions Tomographic Explorer (VETE) Mission Concept (486719)
Eliud Bonilla, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Geography and Environmental Systems, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
Fire and ice: Anak Krakatau triggers volcanic freezer in the upper troposphere (488522)
Andrew Prata, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain, Arnau Folch, Fred J. Prata, AIRES Pty Ltd, Mt Eliza, Victoria, Australia, Riccardo Biondi, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Hugues Brenot, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, Corrado Cimarelli, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany, Stefano Corradini, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, Jeff Lapierre, Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, United States and Antonio Costa, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Bologna, Bologna, Italy
 
Tracking Explosive Eruptions with Volcanic Lightning (Invited) (489136)
Alexa R Van Eaton1, Cassandra M. Smith2, Sonja A Behnke3, Ryan Said4, Robert Holzworth5, David J Schneider6, Matthew M Haney7, John J Lyons7 and Larry G Mastin8, (1)USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA, United States, (2)Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, United States, (3)University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States, (4)Vaisala Inc., Louisville, CO, United States, (5)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (7)USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory, Anchorage, AK, United States, (8)US Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA, United States
 
Monitoring ash events from space combining polar and geostationary satellite observations: recent results from RSTASH algorithm (492126)
Alfredo Falconieri1, Francesco Marchese2, Lucia Mona3, Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos4, Nicola Pergola2, Carolina Filizzola1 and Valerio Tramutoli5, (1)CNR Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, Potenza, Italy, (2)IMAA/CNR, Tito Scalo (Pz), Italy, (3)IMAA-CNR, Tito Scalo-Potenza, Italy, (4)IMAA/CNR, Tito, Italy, (5)University of Basilicata, School of Engineering, Potenza, Italy
 
Tracking the volcanic cloud altitude of the 2008 Kasatochi eruption with GNSS radio occultations (492210)
Valeria Cigala1, Riccardo Biondi1, Fred J. Prata2, Andrea Karin Steiner3, Gottfried Kirchengast3 and Hugues Brenot4, (1)University of Padova, Padova, Italy, (2)AIRES Pty Ltd, Mt Eliza, Victoria, Australia, (3)University of Graz, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, Graz, Austria, (4)Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
 
The primary convective pathway for observed wildfire emissions in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: a targeted reinterpretation (Invited) (498419)
Michael D Fromm, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, David A Peterson, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States and Larry Di Girolamo, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States
 
Challenges in Distinguishing and Forecasting Volcanic Ash Following a Major Eruption of Raikoke Volcano, June 2019. (502753)
Nathan Eckstein, David Barber and Brian Hagenbuch, NOAA National Weather Service Alaska, Anchorage Volcanic Ash Advisory Center, Anchorage, AK, United States
 
Volcanic Ash Forecast Verification using HYSPLIT and Satellite Ash Observations Identified by VOLCAT (506575)
Allison Ring1,2, Alice Crawford1, Barbara Stunder1, Justin Sieglaff3 and Michael Pavolonis Sr.4, (1)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, WI, United States, (4)NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, United States
 
CALIPSO Observations of Microphysical Changes in Volcanogenic Ice Clouds in the Stratosphere (538072)
Jayanta Kar1, Mark Vaughan2, Jason Lucas Tackett2, Zhaoyan Liu2, Charles R Trepte2 and Patricia Lucker1, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Volcanic Ice Cloud Retrieval: the 3-5 December 2015 Mt.Etna Eruption (539533)
Dario Stelitano1, Stefano Corradini1, Luca Merucci1 and Lorenzo Guerrieri2, (1)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Nazionale Terremoti, Rome, Italy, (2)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
 
Probabilistic retrieval of volcanic SO2 altitude and loading using the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS): Examples from Raikoke, Sierra Negra, Bogoslof, and Anak Krakatau (540704)
David Matthew Hyman, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, WI, United States and Michael Pavolonis Sr., NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, United States
 
Volcanic Ash Cloud Heights from Icelandic Eruptions Using the CO2 Slicing Technique (551689)
Isabelle Taylor1, Elisa Carboni2, Tamsin A Mather3, Lucy J Ventress2 and Roy Gordon Grainger2, (1)Univerity of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)University of Oxford, Sub-Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Using Ground-Based and Satellite Sensors to Quantify the Convection Within a Volcanic Plume (560614)
Virginia Peterson Andrews, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Kimberly D Genareau, University of Alabama, Department of Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Christopher J Schultz, NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, AL, United States and Aaron Robert Naeger, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Ensemble-Based Data Assimilation of volcanic ash clouds from real satellite observations: the 24 December 2018 Mt.Etna explosive eruption. (573379)
Federica Pardini1, Mattia De' Michieli Vitturi1, Tomaso Esposti Ongaro1, Stefano Corradini2, Luca Merucci2, Dario Stelitano2 and Antonio Costa3, (1)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, (2)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Nazionale Terremoti, Rome, Italy, (3)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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