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Experts gather as volcanic dust settles

28 May 2010

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An image of the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano plume taken from a twin-engine jet called the Falcon 20E, operated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Credits: DLR

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The Red-Green-Blue composite image (left) shows the ash plume from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajoekull volcano and clouds, as seen by Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) on 19 April 2010. The middle image shows the aerosol optical depth, and the right image shows the aerosol effective radius (indicating the ash cloud in red).

Credits: W. von Hoyningen-Huene

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A time series of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajoekull volcano ash measurements taken by the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) on MetOp.

Credits: Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

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This image shows the ash plume measurement over France from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajoekull volcano on 17 April 2010 from NASA’s CALIPSO satellite.

Credits: NASA

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