Globally Significant CO2 Emissions From Katla, a Subglacial Volcano in Iceland

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Ilyinskaya, Evgenia, Mobbs, Stephen, Burton, Ralph, Burton, Mike, Pardini, Federica, Pfeffer, Melissa Anne, Purvis, Ruth, Lee, James, Bauguitte, Stéphane, Brooks, Barbara, Colfescu, Ioana, Petersen, Gudrun Nina, Wellpott, Axel, Bergsson, Baldur
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Katla; Iceland
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/139206/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/139206/1/Ilyinskaya_et_al_2018_Geophysical_Research_Letters.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079096

Volcanoes are a key natural source of CO2, but global estimates of volcanic CO2 flux are predominantly based on measurements from a fraction of world's actively degassing volcanoes. We combine high-precision airborne measurements from 2016 and 2017 with atmospheric dispersion modeling to quanti...