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

• 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
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
• Subjects: Adult; Air Pollutants; Air Pollution; Asthma; Delivery of Health Care; Emergency Service, Hospital; Environmental Exposure; Humans; Iceland; Morbidity; Physicians, Primary Care; Public Health; Regression Analysis; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Risk; Self Report; Sulfur Dioxide; Surveys and Questionnaires; Volcanic Eruptions; Holuhraun; Reykjavík
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.70607; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/323153

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 of (i) a...