The eruption in Tonga has record height of volcanic smoke

Scientists from Oxford University’s Department of Physics in the United States have confirmed this. volcano eruption Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apaiIt produced the largest volcanic plume ever recorded in Tonga🇧🇷 It was also the first explosion observed to break the mesosphere layer of the atmosphere.

The paper containing the results of the research was published November 3 in the journal Science.

A previous study concluded that the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption was the largest recorded in this century.

On January 15, 2022, the volcano erupted, causing a violent eruption that sent shock waves around the world – some areas were even damaged by the tsunami.

Powerful volcanic smoke spurts ash and water into the atmosphere, setting a new record🇧🇷 After scientists’ measurements, a 57 kilometers altitude at its peak – significantly larger than previous records, such as the Mount Pinatubo volcanic plume (40 kilometers) in the Philippines in 1991.

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“This is an outstanding result as we have never seen a cloud this high before. Also, the ability to estimate height (using the parallax method) as we do is possible only now that we have good satellite coverage. A decade or more ago.” would not be possible,” says lead study author Simon Proud.

The explosion was so violent that it came close to the stratosphere, so they couldn’t measure altitude using conventional methods – normally, measurements are made all the way down to the troposphere, the lowest layer of Earth’s atmosphere. 🇧🇷 So, to arrive at the result, they used a method that uses the parallax effect, which makes it possible to measure different data.