Multiple airwaves crossing Britain and Ireland following the eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai on 15 January 2022

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Burt, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5125-6546 (2022) Multiple airwaves crossing Britain and Ireland following the eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai on 15 January 2022. Weather, 77 (3). ISSN 0043-1656 doi: 10.1002/wea.4182

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At 0415 UTC on 15 January 2022, the large subterranean volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai in the south Pacific Ocean exploded violently, sending an eruption cloud at least 40 km into the atmosphere. Satellite images caught the dramatic growth of the volcanic plume, and the subsequent pressure wave which radiated outward from the volcano at close to the speed of sound. The initial pressure wave, and its subsequent reverberations, was detected across the entire globe, reaching the British and Irish Isles some 14 hours after the eruption. Several subsequent reverberations of this pressure wave could be detected in the British and Irish Isles up to 127 hours after the eruption, in what appears to have been the largest amplitude airwave event caused by a distant natural phenomenon since the Krakatoa eruption of August 1883.

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Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/103389
Identification Number/DOI	10.1002/wea.4182
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Uncontrolled Keywords	Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai,volcano,airwaves,barometric pressure,UK and Ireland,Krakatoa
Publisher	Wiley
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