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The Mt Etna SO 2 eruption in December 2015 – the view from space
Author(s) -
Athanassiadou Maria
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1477-8696
pISSN - 0043-1656
DOI - 10.1002/wea.2794
Subject(s) - plume , geology , depth sounding , pacific ocean , oceanography , meteorology , geography
The SO 2 plume from the eruption of Mt Etna in Sicily on 3 December 2015 crossed Asia and reached the west Pacific Ocean in 4 days. By 10 December, it had reached the Atlantic Ocean. Smaller eruptions followed, with some of the plumes travelling northwards and reaching the UK. This paper describes the plume and tracks its evolution using measurements from the IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) instrument on the MetOpA/B satellites.