Fate of volcanic ash: Aggregation and fallout

• Published in: Geology
• Main Authors: Rose, William I., Durant, Adam J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech 2011
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Engineering; Geology; Mining Engineering; Other Engineering; Schumann; Eyjafjallajökull; Iceland
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/geo-fp/13; https://doi.org/10.1130/focus092011.1

While suspended in Earth's atmosphere, fine ash influences radiative transfer, weather, and climate (e.g., Newhall and Self, 1982). Sulfate aerosol, also in volcanic ash clouds, dominates atmospheric effects, having stratospheric residence times of months to years (Robock, 2000), so large erupt...