Geoscientific Model Development
Geoscientific Model Development
GMD
Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-1957-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-1957-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
Development and technical paper
 | 
04 Mar 2024
Development and technical paper |  | 04 Mar 2024

Estimating volcanic ash emissions using retrieved satellite ash columns and inverse ash transport modeling using VolcanicAshInversion v1.2.1, within the operational eEMEP (emergency European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme) volcanic plume forecasting system (version rv4_17)

André R. Brodtkorb, Anna Benedictow, Heiko Klein, Arve Kylling, Agnes Nyiri, Alvaro Valdebenito, Espen Sollum, and Nina Kristiansen

Data sets

Three-hourly gridded volcanic ash emissions for the Eyjafjallajökull 2010 eruption André Rigland Brodtkorb et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3818196

Eyjafjallajökull satellite observations (1.0) André R. Brodtkorb https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3855526

Model code and software

VolcanicAshInversion v 1.2.1 André Brodtkorb https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8073110

Video supplement

2010 eruption at Eyjafjallajökull André Brodtkorb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cohBP3LNArQ

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Short summary
It is vital to know the extent and concentration of volcanic ash in the atmosphere during a volcanic eruption. Whilst satellite imagery may give an estimate of the ash right now (assuming no cloud coverage), we also need to know where it will be in the coming hours. This paper presents a method for estimating parameters for a volcanic eruption based on satellite observations of ash in the atmosphere. The software package is open source and applicable to similar inversion scenarios.
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