Volcanic Gas Measurements at Mount Cleveland, 14-15 August 2015

Description

On 14-15 August 2015, helicopter-based measurements were made of the volcanic gases emitted from Mount Cleveland, AK. An upward-looking differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) system was used to measure incident scattered solar ultraviolet radiation while traversing beneath the plume on multiple occasions 14-15 August. This data was used to derive SO2 emission rates. Additionally, a Multi-Component Gas Analyzer System (Multi-GAS) was used to make measurements of trace gas concentrations while on a dedicated measurement flight passing through the gas plume on 15 August (19:15 - 19:56 UTC). Radiance spectra and gas compositions were both recorded at 1 second time resolution. Each spectrum and gas measurement was stamped with the GPS time and location. Each spectrum was saved in a separate ASCII file which includes 2048 radiances measured in the 285 - 430 nm spectral region and metadata associated with each acquisition. The Multi-GAS measurements are saved in a spreadsheet in the *.csv format.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/F7TM7898
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5849c4c2e4b071492e42db51.xml

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  • usgs-5849c4c2e4b071492e42db51
  • doas
  • volcanology
  • geochemistry
  • mulit-gas
  • spectroscopy

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