Persistent albedo reduction on southern Icelandic glaciers due to ashfall from the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption

• Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment
• Main Authors: Möller, Rebecca, Dagsson-Waldhauserova, Pavla, Möller, Marco, Kukla, Peter, Schneider, Christoph, Gudmundsson, Magnus Tumi
• Other Authors: Auðlinda- og umhverfisdeild (LBHÍ), Faculty of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (AUI), Landbúnaðarháskóli Íslands, Agricultural University of Iceland
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier BV 2019
• Subjects: Soil Science; Geology; Volcanic eruptions; Eldgosið í Eyjafjallajökli; Öskufall; Jöklar; Mýrdalsjökull; Vatnajökull; Eyjafjallajökull; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1350; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111396

In April and May 2010 the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull experienced an explosive eruption that led to substantial ashfall across the central-southern parts of the island. The resulting ash deposits covered Eyjafjallajökull, Mýrdalsjökull and parts of Vatnajökull ice caps. In order to quantify t...