Volcanic Cloud Monitoring -- NOAA/CIMSS

June 2026: The UW campus has experienced a significant chilled water disruption. This will limit SSEC datacenter cooling and VOLCAT data/website outages may occur without warning.

Volcanic Cloud Imagery

Sector: Use Map

The blue overlays on the map to the right are the sectors listed in the above menu.

Click on a sector on the map to select that sector.

Or you can just use the menu above if you know the name of the sector you are interested in.

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Disclaimer: The NOAA/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring website is hosted and populated at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin. While reliability is quite high, outages, including unannounced outages, will occasionally occur. Outages may include, but are not limited to, any of the following: website offline, specific sensor processing to cease, email and/or text message distribution outages, database outages, computer malfunction, etc. While every effort is made to correct problems as soon as they arise, the SSEC is not staffed 24/7. As such, any user implicitly agrees to use the services and data available through this website as is with no warranty issued or implied and should be used for informational purposes only. Any use of this data for decision making processes is done at the sole risk of the end user.

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Volcanic Cloud Monitoring — NOAA/CIMSS

Volcanic Cloud Imagery