Satellite detection, long-range transport, and air quality impacts of volcanic sulfur dioxide from the 2014-2015 flood lava eruption at Bárðarbunga (Iceland)

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 9739-9756

  Schmidt, Anja ^a   Leadbetter, Susan ^b   Theys, Nicolas ^c   Carboni, Elisa ^d   Witham, Claire S ^b   Stevenson, John A ^e   Birch, Cathryn E ^b   Thordarson, Thorvaldur ^f   Turnock, Steven ^a   Barsotti, Sara ^g   Delaney, Lin ^h   Feng, Wuhu ^a   Grainger, Roy G ^d   Hort, Matthew C ^b   Höskuldsson, Ármann ^f   Ialongo, Iolanda ⁱ   Ilyinskaya, Evgenia ^j   Jóhannsson, Thorsteinn ^k   Kenny, Patrick ^h   Mather, Tamsin A ^d   Richards, Nigel A D ^a   Shepherd, Janet ^l   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^g ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

^h ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (Ireland)

ⁱ FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^j BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^k Environment Agency of Iceland   (Iceland)

^l SCOTTISH ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION INVENTORY; FISSURE; INSTRUMENTATION; LAVA FLOW; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; POLLUTION MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TROPOSPHERE; VOLCANIC ASH;

ICELAND; IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM; VATNAJOKULL;

EID: 84941798368     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023638     Document Type: Article

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