Optical Properties of Volcanic Ash: Improving Remote Sensing Observations

Patrick Whelley1, Peter Richard Colarco2, Valentina Aquila3, Nickolay Anatoly Krotkov1, Jacob E Bleacher4, William Brent Garry2, Kelsey E Young5, Adriana R Lima2, Jose Vanderlei Martins5 and Simon A Carn6, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Science, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Michigan Technological University, Department of Geological and Mining Engineering & Sciences, Houghton, MI, United States