Understanding the environmental impacts of large fissure eruptions: Aerosol and gas emissions from the 2014–2015 Holuhraun eruption (Iceland)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 472, Issue , 2017, Pages 309-322

  Ilyinskaya, Evgenia ^a   Schmidt, Anja ^a   Mather, Tamsin A ^b   Pope, Francis D ^c   Witham, Claire ^d   Baxter, Peter ^e   Jóhannsson, Thorsteinn ^f   Pfeffer, Melissa ^g   Barsotti, Sara ^g   Singh, Ajit ^c   Sanderson, Paul ^c   Bergsson, Baldur ^g   McCormick Kilbride, Brendan ^h   Donovan, Amy ⁱ   Peters, Nial ^h   Oppenheimer, Clive ^h   Edmonds, Marie ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f Environment Agency of Iceland   (Iceland)

^g ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

air quality; environment; Iceland; volcanic emissions; volcanic eruption; volcanic plume

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIR QUALITY STANDARDS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DISPERSIONS; GAS EMISSIONS; GASES; HEAVY METALS; POLLUTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TRACE ELEMENTS; TROPOSPHERE; VOLCANOES;

ENVIRONMENT; ICELANDS; VOLCANIC EMISSION; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; VOLCANIC PLUME;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

AIR QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISSURE; FUTURE PROSPECT; TROPOSPHERE; VOLCANIC AEROSOL; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC GAS;

HOLUHRAUN; ICELAND; REYKJAVIK;

EID: 85020452227     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.05.025     Document Type: Article

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