Weaver, Connell,
Hillger
B. Connell attended an international workshop on the Remote Sensing of Volcanic Clouds at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, MI, July 29-August 3, 2001. The overall workshop goal was to improve and expand the use of satellite-based remote sensing data for hazard mitigation and other research purposes such as volcano/atmosphere interactions, chemical and meteorological effects on the troposphere and stratosphere. The workshop format was part lecture and part hands-on labs working with actual data sets. Terrascan software was used on UNIX hardware to view the imagery.
J. Weaver made the PowerPoint presentation that he uses for severe weather training available to Hewlett-Packard. They put the presentation on their in-house, emergency preparedness intranet website for employees.
Two manuscripts on MODIS applications for volcanic ash were submitted by D. Hillger to the Journal of Applied Meteorology. In the first manuscript the MODIS bands of most importance for ash detection were determined, with implications for GOES-R in 2008. In the second manuscript MODIS data were used to simulate the impact of the change from 12 um to the 13.3 um band with GOES-12.