Real-time Volcanic Cloud Products and Predictions for Aviation Alerts

Nickolay Anatoly Krotkov1, Eric J Hughes2, Arlindo da SIlva3, Colin J Seftor4, Kelvin W Brentzel5, Seppo Hassinen6, Thomas A Heinrichs7, David J Schneider8, Robert Hoffman9, Tim Myers9, Lawrence E Flynn10, Jianguo Niu11, Nicolas Theys12 and Hugues Henri Brenot13, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (5)NASA GSFC Direct Readout Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (7)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (8)U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Volcano Observatory, Anchorage, AK, United States, (9)Metron Aviation, Dulles, VA, United States, (10)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (11)IMSG at NOAA STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (12)Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, (13)Belgisch Instituut voor Ruimte-Aeronomie, Brussel, Belgium