{"id":57026,"date":"2024-02-08T18:20:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T18:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=57026"},"modified":"2024-02-08T18:40:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T18:40:12","slug":"new-fissure-eruption-from-sundhnukagigar-on-icelands-reykjanes-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/57026","title":{"rendered":"New fissure eruption from Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar on Iceland&#8217;s Reykjanes Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/02\/240208_goes16_shortwaveInfrared_Iceland_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/02\/G16_SWIR_ICELAND_VOLC_08FEB2024_B7_2024039_061020_GOES-16_0001PANEL_FRAME00003.GIF\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images, from 0550 -1610 UTC on 08 February [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/02\/240208_goes16_shortwaveInfrared_Iceland_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A distinct hot thermal signature (black to yellow to red pixels) of a new <a href=\"https:\/\/en.vedur.is\/about-imo\/news\/a-seismic-swarm-started-north-of-grindavik-last-night\"><strong>Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar<\/strong><\/a> fissure eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland was apparent in GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em>\u00a0Shortwave Infrared (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band07.pdf\"><strong>3.9<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band07.pdf\"><strong>\u00a0\u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) imagery on 08 February 2024 <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em>. Station identifier BIRK is Reykjavik Airport, and BIKF is Keflavik International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Since the fissure eruption and subsequent lava flows began during the nighttime hours, the thermal signature also showed up well in GOES-16 Near-Infrared\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band05.pdf\"><strong>1.61 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band06.pdf\"><strong>2.24 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0imagery\u00a0<em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1292px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/02\/240208_goes16_nearInfrared_shortwaveInfrared_Iceland_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/02\/G16_NIR_SWIR_ICELAND_VOLC_08FEB2024_B567_2024039_061020_0003PANELS_FRAME00003.GIF\" width=\"1282\" height=\"964\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 Near-Infrared \u201cSnow\/Ice\u201d (1.61 \u00b5m, top), Near-Infrared \u201cCloud Particle Size\u201d (2.24 \u00b5m, middle) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m, bottom) images, from 0550-1030 UTC on 08 February [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2024\/02\/240208_goes16_nearInfrared_shortwaveInfrared_Iceland_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A distinct hot thermal signature (black to yellow to red pixels) of a new Sundhn\u00fakag\u00edgar fissure eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland was apparent in GOES-16 (GOES-East)\u00a0Shortwave Infrared (3.9\u00a0\u00b5m) imagery on 08 February 2024 (above). Station identifier BIRK is Reykjavik Airport, and BIKF is Keflavik International Airport. Since the fissure eruption and subsequent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":57033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-volcanic-activity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57026"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57035,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57026\/revisions\/57035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}