Improving ash and eruption detection with satellites

At the Engineering and Natural Sciences Research Symposium 2010 (R-VoN) 8 - 9 October I, in collaboration with Hróbjart, Inga and Hrund at the Icelandic Met Office, have a poster where we show the progress we have made in using satellite data to detect ash and eruptions/fires.

Inga and Hrund were summer-students at the IMO, great workers, through a project funded by the “Nýsköpunarsjóður Námsmanna” (Icelandic Centre for Research (RANNIS)).

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For more information, please contact Throstur.

Geysir eruption / Gos í Strokki

From Summer 2010

Fleiri myndir af Strokk og af fuglum, blómum og landslagi í albúminu hér að ofan.
More pictures of geysir eruption and flowers, birds, and landscape in the album above.

Lýsing á gosi í Strokk og hverum hér.

Description of geysir erutpion here.

France drains lake under glacier / Til stendur að dæla vatni undan jökli í Frakklandi

"French engineers are set to drain a lake that has formed under a glacier on Mont Blanc, and which threatens to flood a valley below."

The lake, which is said to contain 65,000 cubic metres (2.3m cubic ft) of water, was discovered last month during routine checks.
The engineers plan to dig a hole into the ice and pump the water away.

France drains lake under glacier - link / hlekkur

Vatni sem safnast hefur undir jökli á Mont Blanc verður dælt upp úr því ef áætlanir ganga eftir.

Image from the BBC web site (see link above).

Rigningar og flóð í Asíu / Rain and floods in Asia

Frá flóðasvæðum í Kína. Mynd: Nordic Photos

Á annað hundrað hafa látið lífið og mörg þúsund orðið heimilislausir vegna ofsaveðurs og flóða í austur Asíu síðasta sólarhring. Í Kína þurfti að sprengja stíflu til að bjarga hundrað þúsund manna borg.

Í morgun þótti hætta á að flóðvarnargarðar myndu bresta með þeim afleiðingum að borgin Tongcheng þurrkaðist út en þar búa hundrað þúsund manns.
From RÚV

Mikil rigning í Kína / Heavy Rain in China

Posted July 14, 2010

 Image from NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using near-real-time data provided courtesy of TRMM Science Data and Information System at Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Michon Scott.