mt sakurajima & kagoshima airport view from the control tower (26 apr ’10)

Mt Sakurajima & Mt Sakurajima & Kagoshima airport Kagoshima airport view from the control tower (26 Apr ’10)view from the control tower (26 Apr ’10)

Kagoshima Airport

Mt Sakurajima

Location of Kagoshima airport & Mt Sakurajima

Distance ; 25 kmDirection 200 ﾟ

VOR/DMEFinal approach fix

at 3,100ft

ILS R/W 34Final approach fix

at 3,100 ft

Number of Volcanic eruption at Mt Sakurajima latest 5 years

Japan Met Ofc

Number of Volcanic eruption at Mt Sakurajima in a year

Calendar year

2009

１ ２ ３ ４ ５ ６ ７ ８ ９ 10 11 12 Total

1 15 23 41 1 13 55 53 55 102 72 117 548

Adjacent one year

2009 2010

７ ８ ９ 10 11 12 １ ２ ３ ４ ５ ６ Total

55 53 55 102 72 117 131 120 121 100 31 99 1,056

Number of days of occurrencewind direction between 180 ゜ to 20

0 ゜ (1999-2008)

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850hPa

700hPa

1 ㎜ ; line width 0.1 ㎜

Magnified volcanic ash5 Nov ’09 at the airport

Time lineInformation flow of volcanic activity ( e.g. 27 May ’10 )

Eruption

NOTAMATIS

AEIS

15:37 15:40 15:46 15:48 15:49 15:55 15:58

V A Observation

Report

V A Advisory

SIGMET

WX office

CABCAB

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15,000

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17,000

Hight of the volcanic ash column

Number of occurrences

Altitudereaching

Through Apr ’09 to Mar ‘10

Viewability of marking sign

Number of aircrafts deviated from the volcanic ash

( Apr '10 )

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Numbers

Other 3

181ＩＮ

67ＯＵＴ

Total 360 aircrafts(121 eruptions)

Total 251 aircrafts(100 eruptions)

( Mar '10 )

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Numbers

Other 3

268ＩＮ

89ＯＵＴ

Deviation from the ash when visibility more than 3,200m

Kagoshima Airport

Mt Sakurajima

VOR/A

RNAV R/W16

Ash flow

RNAV R/W16

Kagoshima Airport

Mt Sakurajima

SID for R/W34

10,000ft+

SID for R/W16

Kagoshima Airport

Mt Sakurajima

7-8,000ft

Road sweeper collects ash

Fire carwash ash away and settled

Main brush

Dust separator

Type of road sweeperRecirculating air T ｙｐ

ｅ; Adapted at Kagoshima airport

Vacuum Suction Type; Most typical & last used

Broom Type ; Using in the Kagoshima city

Correcting to the manual

Doc#9691Term 2.3.2 is explained about Mt Sakurajima in Japan

Sentence is ････ while the eruptions are often of an explosive type,

accompanied by explosion earthquakes and atmospheric shock waves, the usually only last a few hours with columns reachin a maximum height of 3km.

Comment is;climbing velocity of the column is 10 to 20m/s, so it can reach to 3,000m in a few minutes.

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