Aircraft observations and model simulations of concentration and particle size distribution in the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic ash cloud

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1277-1291

  Dacre, H F ^a   Grant, A L M ^a   Johnson, B T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIRBORNE SURVEY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; PHREATOMAGMATISM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC CLOUD; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANOLOGY; WIND SHEAR;

EYJAFJALLAJOKULL; ICELAND;

EID: 84873911317     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-1277-2013     Document Type: Article

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