Today’s Mount Baker ash simulations

Posted by: magmatist | November 5, 2013

Today’s Mount Baker ash simulations

A screen capture from a Baker ash deposit simulation.

A new page has been added to the Monitoring tab. A USGS website now simulates the ash plume and distribution of ash if the largest post-glacial Baker eruption, the 6600-year-old ‘BA’, occurred under today’s wind conditions.

Go to the ‘Baker Ash Today’ page.

Airborne ash plume:

https://vsc-ash.wr.usgs.gov/public_results_airborne.php?ash3d_job_id=759

Deposit:

https://vsc-ash.wr.usgs.gov/public_results_deposit.php?ash3d_job_id=759

A simulated Baker ash plume 12 hours after eruption. Note: in this simulation, Seattle is unaffected, while Whatcom County and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia are.

Posted in Baker activity, Cascades Volcano Observatory, volcanic ash | Tags: ash and aircraft, ash deposits, ash hazard, ash plume, BA tephra, Cascade Volcano Observatory, eruption cloud, eruption hazards, eruption modeling, eruption plume, eruption simulation, Mount Baker eruption, US Geological Survey, Vancouver British Columbia volcanic ash hazard, volcanic cloud, volcanic hazards to flight, volcano monitoring

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