Today (Friday) and tomorrow gas pollution from the Holuhraun eruption will chiefly by felt in a narrow part of South Iceland. According to the Icelandic Met Office's (IMO) interactive map air quality should be good in most other populated areas today.
Science writer Alexandra Witze has written a great piece for nature.com about how the record-setting amount of volcanic pollution has surprised volcanologists.
You can view air pollution measurements from around Iceland here. Page is in Icelandic but each town/place is colour coded.
Live air pollution measurements from Reykjavík's monitoring are sites here.
Air Quality Index (AQI)
- GREEN Good
- YELLOW Moderate
- ORANGE Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups
- RED Unhealthy
- PURPLE Very Unhealthy
- MAROON Hazardous
Here is IMO's interactive map showing how the gases from the eruption in the centrel highlands will travel over Iceland in the next 36 hours.
Today (Friday) and tomorrow gas pollution from the Holuhraun eruption will chiefly by felt in a narrow part of South Iceland. According to the Icelandic Met Office's (IMO) interactive map air quality should be good in most other populated areas today.
Science writer Alexandra Witze has written a great piece for nature.com about how the record-setting amount of volcanic pollution has surprised volcanologists.
You can view air pollution measurements from around Iceland here. Page is in Icelandic but each town/place is colour coded.
Live air pollution measurements from Reykjavík's monitoring are sites here.
Air Quality Index (AQI)
- GREEN Good
- YELLOW Moderate
- ORANGE Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups
- RED Unhealthy
- PURPLE Very Unhealthy
- MAROON Hazardous
Here is IMO's interactive map showing how the gases from the eruption in the centrel highlands will travel over Iceland in the next 36 hours.
