Enhancing Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Operations with AWIPS-II

Jamie Kibler, the Manager of Washington Volcanic Ash Advisory Center, recommends keeping the ash product in AWIPS-II for better identification and estimation of volcanic ash clouds. Transitioning to AWIPS-II would allow analysts to overlay imagery with other products for efficient production of Volcanic Ash Advisories and Graphics. Training guides for AWIPS-II users are suggested to improve familiarity with the platform.

• Volcanic ash
• Advisory Center
• AWIPS-II
• Jamie Kibler
• Volcanic Ash Advisory

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1. Jamie Kibler Washington Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Manager July 20, 2018

2. Analysts are able to identify the ash/aerosol cloud in the RGB imagery. RGB imagery in full resolution looks good. The ability to get an estimate on the height in different color shades and sample the ash for a definitive height is beneficial. This is not available in our main platform N-AWIPS. The ash product in AWIPS-II will be of benefit down the road if SAB makes the switch over to the platform. The potential to have everything in one system is time saving and cost efficient. RGBs looks much better in AWIPS-II than N-AWIPS (no Ash product in N-AWIPS).

3. SAB analysts are not able to get alerts by email or in AWIPS-II when there is an eruption that we may have missed. The most recent version is not available in AWIPS-II. It s difficult to compare new version vs old version vs VOLCAT webpage AWIPS-II is not (N-AWIPS) SAB s platform for issuing advisories. Difficult to translate back and forth for moderate to large eruption Difficult to determine Ash vs SO2 SAB Analysts are more familiar with Mcidas, N-AWIPS and VOLCAT website. Need a guide on AWIPS-II since most of our analysts are not familiar with the platform and we have only been looking at the full resolution product for 2 months. Finding the product is not as intuitive as N-AWIPS

6. Recommend keeping the product in AWIPS-II. If SAB makes the switch over to AWIPS-II in the future we will be able to overlay imagery with other ancillary products to produce Volcanic Ash Advisories and Volcanic Ash Graphics. Recommend if possible to update the algorithm to the latest version and have the ability to do this on a bi-yearly process. Recommend a training guide for AWIPS-II users who are not as familiar on the platform would be great. SAB and maybe the NCEP Centers.

7. Jamie Kibler Jamie.Kibler@noaa.gov NESDIS/NOAA/OSPO/SPSD/SAB Washington VAAC