Tonga Eruption and Atmospheric Waves

May 16, 2022
Planet

Hunga eruption atmospheric waves: Prof. Robin Matoza, Dr. Alex Iezzi, Hugo Ortiz, and Rodrigo de Negri in international collaboration to analyze exceptional multi-technology observations of this extraordinary event in the modern digital record. Their research has been featured in both UCSB's The Current and on BBC News

Photo Credit: "“The atmospheric waves generated by the Hunga, Tonga eruption from the analysis performed in the paper on the 6.2 micron channel superimposed on the true color composition from GOES-17 geostationary satellite (background image composition generated with satpy, https://satpy.readthedocs.io, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.596324). Image credit: Jean-Marie Lalande.””