Increased respiratory morbidity associated with exposure to a mature volcanic plume from a large Icelandic fissure eruption

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Carlsen, Hanne Krage, Ilyinskaya, Evgenia, Baxter, Peter J., Schmidt, Anja, Thorsteinsson, Throstur, Pfeffer, Melissa Anne, Barsotti, Sara, Dominici, Francesca, Finnbjornsdottir, Ragnhildur Gudrun, Jóhannsson, Thorsteinn, Aspelund, Thor, Gislason, Thorarinn, Valdimarsdóttir, Unnur, Briem, Haraldur, Gudnason, Thorolfur
• Other Authors: Icelandic Centre for Research
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
• Subjects: General Physics and Astronomy; General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; General Chemistry; Holuhraun; Reykjavík; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22432-5; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22432-5.pdf; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22432-5

Abstract The 2014–15 Holuhraun eruption in Iceland was the largest fissure eruption in over 200 years, emitting prodigious amounts of gas and particulate matter into the troposphere. Reykjavík, the capital area of Iceland (250 km from eruption site) was exposed to air pollution events from advection...