Sentences with phrase «sulfur dioxide plumes»

An image provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows sulfur dioxide plumes rising from Kilauea's fissures along the rift and accumulating in the cloud deck, viewed from a Hawaiian Volcano Observatory overflight on Wednesday.

At the time when these eruptions took place, 717 million years ago, the Franklin large igneous province was near the equator, making it easier for the sulfur dioxide plumes to reach, and cross, the stratosphere and the troposphere.

Not exact matches

Satellite tracking showed sulfur dioxide being carried northeasterly over the Arctic Ocean as ash plumes spread to the southeast.

A photograph of another extremely active volcano, called Prometheus, captures a plume of vaporized sulfur dioxide towering 80 kilometers above an advancing lava flow.

Ground - based data are more detailed, and in areas like Central America where large sulfur dioxide - emitting volcanoes are close together, they better distinguish which specific volcano gas plumes come from.

The specialized instruments onboard the aircraft sampled the plume for aerosol particle size distribution and composition as well as concentrations of pollutant gases such as sulfur dioxide, nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

A smaller, but thicker, sulfur dioxide gas plume can be seen coming from Kilauea.