Contact: Ken Dean
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University of Alaska Fairbanks

Far-reaching Affects -- Volcanic Ash Spans from Kamchatka to Alaska's Unimak Island

Caption: Puff prediction showing Klyuchevskoy ash extending to Unimak Island in the Aleutians. This image was generated June 29, 2007. Puff is a three-dimensional volcanic ash computer model used to forecast how volcanic ash moves through the atmosphere after an eruption. The computer model was developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Credit: Image courtesy Geophysical Institute/Alaska Volcano Observatory

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