Puff-Volcanic Ash Tracking Model

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Peter Webley (AVO/UAF), January 2008

Puff-Related Links

Supporting Software

Generic Mapping Tools All the links needed to learn and aquire the latest GMT version.
NetCDF The file format used in Puff.

Other Users of Puff

NWS Puff Craig Searcy's Home page for Puff. Background and other material from the man who first put Puff together.
H. Tanaka at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.
Messina University by G. Neri.
PHU APL John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Where the AFWA version of Puff was developed by D. Tillman.
AFWA Air Force Weather Agency.

Wind Field Data

Most wind model data is acquired by using Unidata's software LDM (local data manager).
Additional model data such as Eta, Ensemble, and RUC, are available from NCEP.

Other Volcanic Ash Models

HYSPLIT: HYbrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory model by NOAA Air Resources Laboratory (ARL). Run Hysplit on the web.
CANERM: CANadian Emergency Response Model by the Canadian Meteorological Centre (CMC).

The information provided on this site is purely for educational purposes, and should not be used for actual volcanic monitoring and predictive purposes.
The University of Alaska and the Geophysical Institute are not responsible for content provided on these pages.

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