Airborne Measurements of Volcanic Ash and Current State of Ash Cloud Prediction

• Main Authors: ELÍASSON, Jónas, YOSHITANI, Junichi
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 京都大学防災研究所 2015
• Subjects: Sakurajima; volcanic ash; airborne measurements; plume dispersion; 519.9; Bardarbunga; Holuhraun; Eyjafjallajökull; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2433/210094

Eyjafjallajökull 2010 and Grímsvötn 2011 eruptions created great problems for commercial aviation in the North Atlantic because of the large extent of the predicted ash clouds from these eruptions. Comparison to satellite pictures showed the predictions very much larger than the ash cloud. Measureme...