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NASA has calculated the height of the plumes from the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption reached a peak height of 58 kilometers (36 miles).

Abstract Himawari-8 is a new geostationary meteorological satellite operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The Earth Observation Research Center of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in collaboration with the JMA produces skin sea surface temperatures (SSTs) from Himawari-8 data. A new quasi-physical algorithm was used to calculate SSTs. Cloud screening based on the Bayesian inference method was used to detect cloudy pixels. Himawari-8 SSTs from June to September 2015 were compared with drifting and tropical moored buoy data. This comparison showed a root-mean-square differenc...

And really it's going to help monitor tropical cyclones in the western pacific, aumps malso ma possible to study the distribution of volcanic ash and aerosols which you know is crucial for the aeronautics and airline industry. volcanos and volcanic ash can down airlines easily. we try to avoid those when we're flying. interestingly enough, himawari-8 is monitoring the clouds across eastern asia -- himawari-9 will take over from 8. it's on standby until the year 2022. here's an example of that rapid scan continuous monitoring. do you see how quickly and how well defined this latest typhoon is a...