Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Modest volcanic SO2 emissions from the Indonesian archipelago

  • Philipson Bani,
  • Clive Oppenheimer,
  • Vitchko Tsanev,
  • Bruno Scaillet,
  • Sofyan Primulyana,
  • Ugan Boyson Saing,
  • Hilma Alfianti,
  • Mita Marlia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31043-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Indonesia is the country with the most active volcanoes, several of which are renowned for climate-changing eruptions. Here the authors show a rather moderate sulfur emissions budget and reinforce the idea that sulfur-rich eruptions reflect long-term accumulation of volatiles in the reservoirs.