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Observations of the altitude of the volcanic plume during the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, April–May 2010
Icelandic Meteorological Office – Vedurstofa Islands, Bustadavegur 9, IS-150 Reykjavik, Iceland
Abstract. The eruption of Eyjafjallajökull volcano in 2010 lasted for 39 days, 14 April–23 May. The eruption had two explosive phases separated by a phase with lava formation and reduced explosive activity. The height of the plume was monitored every 5 min with a C-band weather radar located in Keflavík International Airport, 155 km distance from the volcano. Furthermore, several web cameras were mounted with a view of the volcano, and their images saved every five seconds. Time series of the plume-top altitude were constructed from the radar observations and images from a web camera located in the village Hvolsvöllur at 34 km distance from the volcano. This paper presents the independent radar and web camera time series and performs cross validation. The echo top radar series of the altitude of the volcanic plume are publicly available from the Pangaea Publishing Network (http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.760690).
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Notice on Discussion StatusCitation: Arason, P., Petersen, G. N., and Bjornsson, H.: Observations of the altitude of the volcanic plume during the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, April–May 2010, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., 4, 1-25, doi:10.5194/essdd-4-1-2011, 2011. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
