Balloon-borne measurement of the aerosol size distribution from an Icelandic flood basalt eruption

• Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Main Authors: Vignelles, Damien, Roberts, T., Carboni, E., Ilyinskaya, E., Pfeffer, M., Dagsson Waldhauserova, P., Schmidt, A., Berthet, Gwenaël, Jegou, Fabrice, Renard, Jean-Baptiste, Ólafsson, H., Bergsson, B., Yeo, R., Fannar Reynisson, N., Grainger, R.G., Galle, B., Conde, V., Arellano, S., Lurton, T., Coute, B., Duverger, Vincent
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales Paris (CNES), Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Oxford (AOPP), University of Oxford Oxford, School of Earth and Environment Leeds (SEE), University of Leeds, Icelandic Meteorological Office, Departments of Physical and Earth Sciences, University of Iceland Reykjavik, Department of Earth and Space Sciences Göteborg, Chalmers University of Technology Göteborg, ANR-10-LABX-0100,VOLTAIRE,Geofluids and Volatil elements – Earth, Atmosphere, Interfaces – Resources and Environment(2010)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: volcano plume; balloon; Iceland; aerosol counter; in-situ measurement; [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph]; [SDU.STU.VO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Volcanology; Holuhraun
• Online Access: https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01382430; https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01382430/document; https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01382430/file/local_243683.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.08.027

International audience We present in situ balloon-borne measurements of aerosols in a volcanic plume made during the Holuhraun eruption (Iceland) in January 2015. The balloon flight intercepted a young plume at 8 km distance downwind from the crater, where the plume is ∼15 min of age. The balloon ca...