Manufacturology

Ash cloud over Europe

Pre­dicted ash cloud dis­tri­b­u­tion for Sun­day 18 April at 06h00 GMT+1. Source: Mete­o­rol­o­gisk insti­tutt, met.no.

The above dis­per­sion map, which is a sim­u­la­tion, shows that the ash cloud from the Eyjaf­jal­la­jökull vol­cano is likely to remain over Europe for at least another cou­ple of days. As seen in the pic­ture, the cloud is expected to widen and remain over parts of Scan­di­navia and cen­tral Europe as of Sun­day 06h00 GMT+1.

Swedish media is report­ing that some air­ports in north­ern Swe­den may open today (SvD, DN). But my inter­pre­ta­tion of the map above is that those are excep­tions, until sun­day at least.

Update 17 April: Accord­ing to Swedish media, the ash cloud will remain over Europe and Scan­di­navia for sev­eral days. Check out my vol­canic ash plate–experiment.

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