SNPP/OMPS SO2 map for the Sierra Negra Eruption

SNPP/OMPS SO2 map for Sierra Negra on June 27, 2018. Based on the coincident IR observations the plume altitude increases moving away from the volcano. AIRS is not detecting any SO2 between the volcano and ~100ºW. If one assumes all the SO2 between the volcano and 100ºW is lower tropospheric and the rest is in the upper troposphere, the total SO2 mass is ~280 kilotons (~0.3 Tg) with ~0.1 Tg in the UTLS.