IN41B-1705
The Use of OMPS Near Real Time Products in Volcanic Cloud Risk Mitigation and Smoke/Dust Air Quality Assessments
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Colin J Seftor, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, Nickolay Anatoly Krotkov, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Richard D McPeters, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jason Y Li, SSAI, Lanham, MD, United States and Phillip B Durbin, ADNET Systems Inc. Lanham, Lanham, MD, United States
Abstract:
Near real time (NRT) SO2 and aerosol index (AI) imagery from Aura’s Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) has proven invaluable in mitigating the risk posed to air traffic by SO2 and ash clouds from volcanic eruptions. The OMI products, generated as part of NASA’s Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) NRT system and available through LANCE and both NOAA’s NESDIS and ESA’s Support to Aviation Control Service (SACS) portals, are used to monitor the current location of volcanic clouds and to provide input into Volcanic Ash (VA) advisory forecasts. NRT products have recently been developed using data from the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite onboard the Suomi NPP platform; they are currently being made available through the SACS portal and will shortly be incorporated into the LANCE NRT system. We will show examples of the use of OMPS NRT SO2 and AI imagery to monitor recent volcanic eruption events. We will also demonstrate the usefulness of OMPS AI imagery to detect and track dust storms and smoke from fires, and how this information can be used to forecast their impact on air quality in areas far removed from their source. Finally, we will show SO2 and AI imagery generated from our OMPS Direct Broadcast data to highlight the capability of our real time system.
