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- Background - Monitoring - Products - Communications - W-VAAC Backup

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- Situational Awareness for DoD planners

- Resource Protection (worldwide deployment)

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Global Event Coverage

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- Background - Monitoring - Products - Communications - W-VAAC Backup

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Volcanic Ash Activity Monitoring - AFWA Automated Database Filter -- Ash Observations (Surface, Pireps)

-- Sigmets/VAAC Bulletins

- Internet -- Web Cams, Observatories, News Media

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Volcanic Ash Activity Monitoring - Continued - Satellite Imagery Database -- Geostationary: NOAA-3, EUMETSAT - 2 -- Polar Orbiters: NOAA- 3, DMSP- 5

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DMSP Visible (0.3 nm)

Sakura-Jima Eruption

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

-AFWA leverages both global stored and tactical direct readout

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FVAW31 KGWC 141715

VOLCANIC ASH ERUPTION UPDATE

VOLCANO: NYIRAGONGO 0203-02

LOCATION: 01.52S 29.25E AREA: DR-CONGO

SUMMIT ELEVATION: 11378 FT (3469 M)

1. DETECTION SOURCE: MET-7 IMAGERY. NOAA-16 IMAGERY.

2. ERUPTION DETAILS: ONGOING EMISSIONS SINCE 04 JUN 04.

TRAJECTORY: ASH TO FL180 MOVG SOUTHWEST AT 5-10 KTS.

3. REMARKS: ASH/STEAM PLUME VISIBLE ON 14/1000Z THROUGH

14/1500Z MET-7 VISUAL IMAGERY AND NOAA-16 VISUAL IMAGERY.

FOR METSAT ANALYSIS AND PUFF MODEL FORECAST BASED ON GFS DATA SEE:

HTTPS ://WEATHER.AFWA.AF.MIL/ENVIRONMENTAL(UNDERSCORE)EVENTS.HTML

(LOWER-CASE ONLY).

4. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION SEE CURRENT FVAF LFPW BULLETIN.

5. THIS BULLETIN WILL BE UPDATED EVERY SIX HOURS FOR CONTINUOUS

ERUPTIONS AND/OR ERUPTIONS ABOVE FL300.

PREPARED BY PIATT

- Advisory Products -- Text bulletins -- Graphic output for plume forecasts

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TT0 0 +3 hr+3 hr TT0 0 +6 hr+6 hr

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PUFF Volcanic Ash Dispersion Forecast Model - Univ of Alaska Geophysical Institute (model development)

- John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

-- Developed Graphical User Interface

-- Adapted to ingest GFS or MM5 wind fields

Product Output - Eruption events, hypothetical situations

Forecast Period - Function of plume height - Minimum 6 hrs

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- Air Force -- Tanker Airlift Control Center -- Operational Weather Squadrons -- Selected Base Weather Stations - Navy -- Meteorological & Oceanographic Centers

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- DoD Automated Weather Network - E-Mail Alerts- Telecon Call Down List- Posting on AFWA web site

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Ash Forecast Charts

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AFWA Hot Backup- Assure Continuity of W-VAAC operations -- Contingencies, Power & Communication Outages- Assume Monitoring Function - Issue Text Bulletins, Ash Forecast Panel Graphics

Frequency- Run Quarterly Exercises with W-VAAC- Hot Backup Activated Five Times in 2003

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Charles HollidayCharles HollidayAir Force Weather AgencyAir Force Weather Agency

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