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Volcanic plumes can be hazardous to aircraft. A correlation between plume height and ground deformation during an eruption of Grímsvötn Volcano, Iceland, allows us to peer into the properties of the magma chamber and may improve eruption forecasts.

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Figure 1: Eruption of Grímsvötn Volcano, Iceland, in 2011.

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Segall, P., Anderson, K. Look up for magma insights. Nature Geosci 7, 168–169 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2064

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