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Volcanoes and Volcanic Ash Part 1

Jeff Braun (CIRA/VISIT) and Jeff Osienski (ESSD)

Other contributors: Bernie Connell, Kristine Nelson and Tony Hall
1) Introduction
    The primary objective of this session is to describe and discuss Volcanoes and Volcanic Ash as hazards to people and their aviation interests and show methods of observation, analysis and forecasting through the use of remote sensing and modeling.

    Learning objectives:

  • Primary Categories

    • Volcanoes and Volcanic Ash
    • The Hazards
    • Health Hazards
    • Aviation Hazards
    • Remote Sensing of Ash, Gas and Aerosols
    • Modeling

  • New or Future Products

  • Examples

2) Prerequisites: None


This is a Basic session.

3) Teletraining Installation Instructions


4) Training Session Options:

    A.) The interactive VISITview training session. (To be used with a VISIT instructor leading the session ). Click here to signup for teletraining. The session will last 75 - 90 minutes. This teletraining session uses the VISITview software, where a Windows PC with an Internet connection is needed.

    B.) Web-based video training session. - coming soon

    C.) Audio playback - coming soon
5) References/Additional Links


6) Train the trainer

    Talking points - these may be used by local offices in tandem with the visitview training session (run in local mode - "visitlocal.bat"). The talking points may be printed out to easily review the session in detail at any time.

    The talking points may be downloaded as a Word document

7) Content developed/updated
    July 2010
8) Information contact