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Science 8 July 1983:
Vol. 221. no. 4606, pp. 195 - 197
DOI: 10.1126/science.221.4606.195
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Circumglobal Transport of the El Chichón Volcanic Dust Cloud

ALAN ROBOCK 1 and MICHAEL MATSON 2

1 Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park 20742
2 NOAA/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Suitland Professional Center, Washington, D.C. 20233

The stratospheric dust cloud from the 4 April 1982 eruption of El Chichón volcano in southern Mexico was observed to travel completely around the world in a 3-week period. Images from satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were used to prepare daily maps of the location of the volcanic dust cloud, which is the largest and longest-lasting one so far observed with satellite imagery.

Submitted on November 10, 1982
Revised on March 4, 1983


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