Impact of the 2010 Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruptions on the GPS signals

Author

Suparta, Wayan ; Bakar, Faizatul Noor Abu ; Abdullah, Mardina

Author_Institution

Inst. of Space Sci., Univ. Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

218

Lastpage

222

Abstract

This paper presents the impact of tropospheric ash cloud distribution on the GPS signal through precipitable water vapor (PWV) measurements during the sequence of 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption at Eyjafjöll in Iceland. The second phase event was occurred from 14 April to 25 May 2010 across western and northern Europe. GPS and the surface meteorological data for the period from 1 April to 31 May of 2010 at Husafell (HUSA) and Hoefn (HOFN) stations, both in Iceland together with Borowiec station (BOR1) in Poland are observed. Monitoring results showed that the lower atmospheric parameter (PWV) is increased during the volcanic ash cloud of about 11.35% (on average) in comparison to the average values before and after the eruptions.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; ash; atmospheric precipitation; volcanology; AD 2010 04 01 to 05 30; Borowiec station; Europe; Eyjafjoll; GPS signal; Hoefn station; Husafell station; Iceland; Icelandic Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption; Poland; precipitable water vapor measurement; tropospheric ash cloud distribution; Global Positioning System; Monitoring; Pollution measurement; GPS PWV; monitoring; surface meteorology; volcanic ash;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmental Engineering and Applications (ICEEA), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8619-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8621-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEEA.2010.5596128

Filename

5596128