The Iceland's Eyjafjallajoekull volcano erupted and ejected an huge plume of ash into the atmosphere on April 14^th, 2010.

The plume of ash led to flight disruption  from April 15^th, with much of the airspace in Europe closed until April 20^th, causing cancellation of most flights within, to, and from Europe.

GlobVolcano Ash Tracking Service, being pre-operational, has delivered off-line products related to the event.

Globvolcano Volcanic Ash Tracking product (CarloGavazziSpace/EUMETSAT courtesy) - April 18, 2010 (from 07:00 UTC to 18:45 UTC).

The product results from processing of MSG/SEVIRI data and it shows the daytime temporal evolution of the volcanic ash cloud; values shown are computed using the reflectance ratio between visual an thermal channels combined with a water cloud filtering algorithm.  Reflectance ratio ranges from 0.2 (yellow) to 1.0 (red) and indicates a relative estimation of the amount of volcanic ash.
The product has been developed in frame the  “Support to Aviation Control Service” (part of ESA GSE Promote) and it has been further adapted to Globvolcano user’s needs.

SO2 maps can be found at SACS web site

FLEXPART simulation can be found at SAVAA web site