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Volcanic Ash Advisory - Current

Created 07/10/2024

Updated 07/10/2024

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The Bureau of Meteorology issues volcanic ash advisories for the Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC) area, which includes the active volcanic regions of Indonesia, PNG and the southern Philippines and extends to the South Pole.

These advisories provide information on the erupting volcano, the observed ash cloud and the forecast for the ash cloud at +6, +12 and +18 hours. Ash clouds can have up to four height levels. The coding for ash height is given as SFC for surface and FL for flight line. The number after FL corresponds to units of 100 feet eg FL120 is a height of 12,000 feet.

Individual advisories from the Darwin VAAC have been combined to create Web Map Service and Web Feature Service layers.

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Title Volcanic Ash Advisory - Current
Language eng
Licence notspecified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/20de23a6-40e2-4efe-8a9f-3db449627d80
Contact Point
Bureau of Meteorology
mgdu@bom.gov.au
Reference Period 08/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[75.0, -90.0], [165.0, -90.0], [165.0, 20.0], [75.0, 20.0], [75.0, -90.0]]]}
Data Portal data.gov.au