German airports extinct volcano ash

  Grimsvotn began erupting Saturday the Germany is to close its northern airspace Wednesday because of ash from a volcano in eruption in Iceland, officials said.

Bremen Airport shut 0300 GMT Hamburg would close at 0400 GMT, meteorological service of the Germany said.

The air space over Berlin and Hanover can also be affected.

Airlines UK have already cancelled flights in some parts of Scotland and Northern England. A was also disrupted the movement of air Norway and the Denmark.

Controller of air traffic in the Europe Eurocontrol said about 500 flights were cancelled because of the closure of some parts of the airspace of Britain.

The service said there was a strong possibility that the cloud of ash would travel to parts of Denmark, the Norway and the Sweden, but the impact on flights would be probably limited.

Britain's weather service, said that the concentration of volcanic ash in the UK airspace would decrease significantly during Wednesday.

France civil aviation authority said it expects a disturbance very little air traffic and do not expect to close all of the airspace of the country.

Grimsvotn volcano began erupting Saturday, sending clouds of ash high into the air.

Experts say that the eruption is on a different scale to that of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano last year, when millions of travellers were blocked in concerns about volcanic ash damage could cause to aircraft engines.

The Grimsvotn ash particles are larger than those of Eyjafjallajokull and therefore fall to the ground more quickly.

A Forecaster with the meteorological service of the said Iceland Grimsvotn produced less ash Tuesday and the plume had decreased to about 5 000 m height (16, 400 ft).

Iceland farm main airport in the eruption of the volcano

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Iceland closed its main international airport Sunday as a volcanic eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and 12 miles (20 km) of steam into the air.

Operator of the airport traffic control and air said ISAVIA Keflavik airport was closed at 0830 GMT (4: 30 pm EDT), and no flight was taking off or landing.

Hjordis Gudmundsdottir spokesman said the ash plume was covering the Iceland, but "the good news is that it leads not to Europe."

She said that the ashes blew rather West to Greenland.

She said officials were investigating whether other airports of the Iceland could take linked Keflavik flights.

Transatlantic flights were diverted from the Iceland, and no there was no sign that the eruption would cause widespread travel interruption triggered year last by ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano.

In April 2010, officials closed the air space of the continent for five days, fearing that the ash could affect turbojet. Some 10 million travellers were blocked.

The Grimsvotn volcano under the Vatnaj?kull glacier uninhabited, began erupting Saturday for the first time since 2004.

Pall Einarsson, Geophysicist at the University of Iceland, said last year's eruption was a rare event and Grimsvotn would probably much less effect on international air traffic.

"The ash in Eyjafjallajokull was persistent or consistent and fine grain," said Einarsson. "The ash in Grimsvotn are more coarse and not more likely to cause danger, it falls to the ground more quickly and remain so long in the air as in the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull.

Sparsely populated Iceland is one of the most volcanic active countries and eruptions are frequent.

Eruptions often cause local flooding from melting of glacial ice, but rarely cause deaths. Police closed a main road near the volcano Sunday heavy ash fall.

Also, the Grimsvotn volcano erupted in 1996 and 1998, 1993. Eruptions lasted from one day to several weeks.

Europe in a State of alert for the ashes of Icelandic volcano of clouds

REYKJAVIK  - an eruption by the most active volcano of the Iceland was created to keep closed Monday, while other European nations have watched for any impact on their routes of an imposing plume of smoke and ash from the main airport of the island.

Experts have said that they saw little chance of a repeat of the closure of six days of the year last of airspace, which also has transatlantic flights, when another Icelandic volcano erupted, although airlines were warned drift towards the new ash cloud.

So far, Iceland, particularly towns and villages to the South and is the Grimsvotn volcano, have suffered most. Day turned to night when a thick ash cloud descended on the region, stifling cars and buildings.

The cloud also began to drift on the Reykjavik capital by late Sunday evening and the civil aviation authority, said the reopening of the main international airport Monday prospects were not good.

Organization of Europe air traffic control warned on its website that the ash could extend to the South.

"Ash cloud should reach North Scotland on Tuesday, May 24." If volcanic emissions continue with the same intensity, cloud could reach west French air space and the Spain of the North on Thursday, May 26, "he said in a bulletin of traffic."

The Iceland Meteorological Office, said the plume from Grimsvotn, which exploded last in 2004, had fallen to 10 to 15 km of height of a Summit of 25 km (16 miles).

But the eruption was much stronger than that to a volcano, more to the South last year closed the European airspace and interrupted transatlantic flights, because of worries that particles could enter in aircraft engines and cause accidents. The air transport industry, said lost revenue $ 1.7 billion.

"It could lead to a disruption, but only for a very limited period and only on a very limited area," said University of Iceland Professor of Geophysics Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson.

"See us some signs that the (eruption) power decreases a little, but it is still powerful enough," he said, adding that the eruption was the most violent volcano since 1873.

LAYERS OF ASH

Gudmundsson and other volcanologists said that the impact on air travel this time would be more limited that the winds are more favourable, content of the plume was heavier, and less likely to spread, authorities had a tolerance for the levels of ash.

Some airlines complained that the authorities had been overly cautious in imposing closures of coverage of the airspace in the eruption of the last year.

Icelandair, the leading company on the island, stopped flights Sunday and said on its website that the case could continue Monday. He said 6,000 passengers were affected by the cancellations so far.

Dave Mcgarvie, a volcanologist at Open University Britain, said any ash, which reached Great Britain would be lower than last year and added that the experience acquired since the eruption of 2010 would lead within disorder.

In the comments, he said "minor diversion" should allow the aircraft to avoid areas where ash is concentrated.

Grimsvotn is located under the glacier Vatnaj?kull in the Southeast, the largest glacier in Europe Iceland.

The areas south of the glacier have been covered by thick layers of ash and the Sun was blocked for several hours.

"It was the night during the winter," said Benedikt Larusson, speaking in the town of Kirkjubaejarklaustur. "Now, it's a little better." Now, I see about 100 metres, but until it was approximately one metre.