Date:         Wed, 21 Sep 1994 08:45:31 MST
Reply-To: VOLCANO 
Sender: VOLCANO 
From: "Ian E. Sprod" 
To: Multiple recipients of list VOLCANO 
Status: OR

METEOR-3 TOMS OBSERVATIONS OF RABAUL ERUPTION PLUME

Meteor-3 TOMS overflew the eruption plume from Rabaul, New Britain
at 5:20am GMT on September 20, 1994. Preliminary results show SO2 column
amounts maximum 60 matm-cm in the vicinity of the volcano.  The estimated
size of the SO2 plume is 45,000km^2. SO2 mass in the plume estimated at
80,000 tonnes +/- 50%.



Ian E. Sprod
Hughes STX, Corp.                       Phone : (301) 286-8036
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center        Fax   : (301) 286-1616
Greenbelt, MD 20771                     ian@skye.gsfc.nasa.gov