Microwave remote sensing of the 2011 Plinian eruption of the Grímsvötn Icelandic volcano

• Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment
• Main Authors: MARZANO, FRANK SILVIO, MONTOPOLI, MARIO, Mirko Lamantea, Michael Herzog, Hans Graf, Domenico Cimini
• Other Authors: Marzano, FRANK SILVIO, Mirko, Lamantea, Montopoli, Mario, Michael, Herzog, Hans, Graf, Domenico, Cimini
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2013
• Subjects: weather radar; vulcani; inversion method; volcanic eruption cloud; ash retrieval; radar meteorology; radar; microwave radiometry; microonde; Keflavík
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11573/675472; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2012.11.005

The sub-glacial Plinian explosive eruption of the Grímsvötn volcano, which occurred on May 2011, is for the first time analyzed and quantitatively interpreted by using ground-based weather radar data and the Volcanic Ash Radar Retrieval (VARR) physically-based technique. The prevailing southerly win...