Did you know Anchorage is home to one of nine volcanic ash advisory centers worldwide?
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In December of 1989, a flight from Amsterdam to Tokyo flew into a cloud of volcanic ash spewed into the atmosphere from Alaska’s Mount Redoubt. All four of the Boeing 747′s engines failed, and the plane quickly lost altitude before pilots could regain control and make an emergency landing in Anchorage.
The area monitored by the Anchorage team is part of a large global network of scientists who work together, according to Don Moore, acting Meteorologist In Charge for the Anchorage VAAC. Moore said ash entering the atmosphere is usually observed on satellite readings. Once the team in Anchorage spots an area of concern, they utilize all the tools they have to ensure for safe air travel.“One of the really important tools that we have are what the pilots see when they are flying past where volcanic ash might be, they can report it, they let us know,” Moore said.
“We will denote where we believe the ash is located and track it across the Pacific and into Alaska and also make predictions on where we believe it will go,” Moore said. “We issue products up to 18 hours in advance. We can discuss ash further out in time but the formal products that we issue are 18 hours in advance.”Two weeks ago, the Anchorage VAAC closely monitored the eruption of the Russian volcano Shiveluch from more than 1,500 miles away.
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