Aerosols Monitoring Network to Create a Volcanic ASH Risk Management System in Argentina and Chile

Abstract

Two main decisions were made in Argentina to mitigate the impact of the recent volcanic activity in de country basically affected by the presence of volcanic ash in the air and deposited over the Argentinean territory. The first one was to create a risk management commission were this risk between others were studied, and second to develop new ground based remote sensing technologies to be able to identify and inform the risk close to the airports. In addition the Japanese government program for Science and Technology joint Research Partnership between Argentina, Chile and Japan for Sustainable Development (SATREPS) accepted to fund this cooperation due to the potential future utilization of the research outcomes to the benefit of the society. This work present the actual achievements and expected advance of these projects that try to joint efforts between national and international agencies as well as countries on behalf of a better understanding of the risks and a joint collaboration on the mitigation of suspended ashes impact over the aerial navigation.

Aerosol Classification for Comodoro Rivadavia Aeronet Stationduring 2015

“…Fue diseñada, construida e instalada por CITEDEF -UNIDEF (MINDEF -CONICET) en el marco del Proyecto Especial del Ministerio de Defensa N o 31554/11 siendo operada en la actualidad por personal del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN). Esta estación cuenta con numerosos instrumentos entre los que se encuentra un lidar [3,4] multilongitud de onda desarrollado por CITEDEF, un equipo MAX-DOAS [5] (Pandora) de la red Pandonia (www.pandonia.net) que mide NO 2 , O 3 en columna total vertical y un fotómetro solar CIMEL que está integrado a la red AERONET de NASA [2]. La figura 5 muestra una foto del fotómetro solar instalado en el techo del contenedor de la estación.…”

Aerosols Observations with a new lidar station in Punta Arenas, Chile

“…With the objective to long term monitoring the aerosols and clouds in the atmosphere a tropospheric lidar system was installed in the Atmospheric Research Laboratory belonging to University of Magallanes in the city of Punta Arenas, Chile (53.13°S, 70.88°W) during September 2016 under the collaboration project Savernet -South American Enviroment Risk Network (Chile, Japan and Argentina) [7].…”

“…5. It was installed through the Savernet Project [7]. Details about the lidar system are summarized in Table 1 and detailed information is given in [7].…”

Lalinet status - station expansion and lidar ratio systematic measurements

“…One in Natal, Brazil, which should be focused on long-range aerosol transport from Saharan dust. The other in Punta Arenas in Chile, which is also part of SAVER.NET (Quel, Eduardo et al, 2016) which merges the efforts of LALINET and AD-NET(Nishizawa, Tomoaki et al, 2016).…”