IS-ENES EGU Townhall Event & Icelandic Volcano Dust Dataset

BADC supports the investigations into the Icelandic Volcano Eruptions of April 2010 & News on IS-ENES EGU Townhall Event.

In response to the volcanic ash plume that entered British airspace from the 14th April, scientists from NERC's National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) and the European airborne research community (EUFAR) have carried out numerous observations from a variety of research aircraft and ground- based instruments. The BADC has supported these efforts by rapidly responding to the needs of the Atmospheric research community to set up :

A dedicated dataset for the event to collate and help to distribute these findings to the wider community:
See http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/eyjafjallajokull_apr2010/

The CEDA Volcano Event Notes Mapping Tool provides an interactive time line showing where and when observations took place with quick look plots of these observations to assist in those wishing to find out more about the volcanic ash plume as it passed over the UK. This tool was developed rapidly by a dedicated team within the Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, which runs the British Atmospheric and NERC Earth Observation data centres (BADC and NEODC), in response to the need of the NCAS community to pull together a widely dispersed network of observations within a cohesive environment in response to the event.

This CEDA Volcano Event Notes Mapping Tool is now operational and seeking input from the community. Please add brief details of your observations at: http://cedaapp1.badc.rl.ac.uk/. (eg "Plume observed by [name] instrument at [location] on [date], [plus link to further info/data/plot]")

For further information about the volcano event mapping tool or any of the BADC activities please contact the BADC helpdesk: email badc@rl.ac.uk.
For information about NCAS's activities in response to the Volcanic Ash Plume event please contact NCAS directly.

CEDA Volcano Event Notes Mapping Tool screenshot

IS-ENES EGU Townhall Event.

Details of the EGU IS-ENES Townhall Event (May 6th - 19h-20h) are available here

Further details will be sent out to users on the BADC mail list.

BADC Helpdesk
4th May 2010

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