Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull Volcanic Ash Plume May 6-8, 2010 - Stereoscopic Version

  • Released Thursday, October 21, 2010
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During April and May, 2010, the Eyjafjallajökull volcano on Iceland's southern coast erupted, creating an expansive ash cloud that disrupted air traffic throughout Europe and across the Atlantic. This animation shows the flow of this ash cloud for three days in early May on an hourly basis as sensed from a geostationary satellite. The ash cloud heights were determined using an approach developed by NOAA/NESDIS/STAR for the next generation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R). Data from EUMETSAT's Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) was used as a proxy for GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) data. This data is shown intersecting with the CALIPSO Parallel Attenuated Backscatter curtain on May 6th.

In this page the visualization content is offered in two different modes to accommodate stereoscopic systems as: Left and Right Eye separate and Left and Right Eye side-by-side combined on the same frame.

This set provides stereoscopic visualization content (Left and Right Eye separate) of the composite animation including the foreground, star background and date overlay.

This set provides stereoscopic visualization content (Left and Right Eye side by side combined on the same frame) of the composite animation including the foreground, star background and date overlay.

The right eye of the above visualization with a colorbar.
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This set provides stereoscopic visualization content (Left and Right Eye separate) for the foreground animation with transparency.

This set provides stereoscopic visualization content (Left and Right Eye separate) for the foreground animation with transparency.

A still image of the ash plume on May 6, 2010 at 14:00 UT

A still image of the ash plume on May 6, 2010 at 14:00 UT

This set provides stereoscopic visualization content (Left and Right Eye separate) of the star background without transparency. These frames are rendered wider than the standard size to allow them to be shifted to alter the stereo separation of the background plane.

This set provides stereoscopic visualization content (Left and Right Eye separate) of the star background without transparency. These frames are rendered wider than the standard size to allow them to be shifted to alter the stereo separation of the background plane.

The date overlay with transparency

The colorbar used for the ash plume height

The colorbar used for the ash plume height

Credits

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Thursday, October 21, 2010.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:00 AM EST.

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Datasets used in this visualization

  • Parallel Attenuated Backscatter 532 [CALIPSO: CALIOP]

    ID: 700
    Sensor: CALIOP Dates used: 05/06/2010
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  • Ash Detection and Height [EUMETSAT: Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI)]

    ID: 703
    Type: Data Compilation Sensor: Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) Dates used: 05/06/2010 through 05/08/2010
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