OMI - News: Mount Etna's SO2 cloud observed above Greece
1 May 2007.
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SO2 cloud Etna above Greece
(© S. Carn & A. Krueger (UMBC) + N. Krotkov (NASA-GSFC))
On April 29, 2007 Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna, has erupted on the southern Italian island of Sicily.
Sulfur dioxide (SO2) in this cloud is observed by OMI a day later above Greece.
Backward trajectory analyses confirms that the SO2 cloud over Greece comes from mount Etna.
Picture courtesy of Carn and Krueger (UMBC) and Krotkov (NASA GSFC).
Information can be obtained at KNMI (Pepijn Veefkind, Mirna van Hoek).
More information on the recent Etna volcano eruption.