This data repository contains electrical and seismic tremor measurements, thermal infrared imagery, atmospheric conditions and information on plume heights that were recorded and collected during the 2021 Tajogaite eruption on La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. The 2021 Tajogaite eruption lasted from 19 September until 13 December 2021. The "data description" file provides more detailed information on each dataset and the way the data is formatted.
The electrical data was recorded using a Biral Thunderstorm Detector BTD-200. This sensor was installed at two consecutive locations: BTD1 (28.635°N, 17.876389°W) recorded from 11-26 October 2021 and BTD2 (28.602365°N, 17.880475°W) recorded from 27 October 2021 until the end of the eruption.
The volcanic tremor measurements were recorded at seismic station PLPI (28.5722°N, 17.8654°W), which was operated by the Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias. Here we provide the seismic tremor amplitudes within the Very Long Period (0.4-0.6 Hz) and the Long Period (1-5 Hz) frequency bands between 10 September and 20 December 2021.
Thermal infrared videography of the explosive volcanic activity was done using an InfraTec HD thermal infrared (TIR) video camera. This camera was installed in El Paso (28.649361°N, 17.882279°W) and recorded almost continuously between 3-8 November 2021. Here we provide individual thermal infrared frames.
Atmospheric conditions were obtained from weather balloon measurements at Güímar (station nr. 60018) on Tenerife, which were provided by the University of Wyoming, Department of Atmospheric Science (http://weather.uwyo.edu/). In addition, atmospheric data was collected from ground-based weather stations at El Paso and Roque de los Muchachos, which were operated by the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) of Spain on La Palma.
Information on the volcanic plume heights was obtained from both the Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (https://vaac.meteo.fr/volcanoes/la-palma/) as well as the Plan de Emergencias Volcánicas de Canarias.
The Fagradalsfjall eruption from 19 March to 18 September 2021 featured lava fountaining episodes from 2 May to 14 June. These episodes were recorded as tremor pulses on our broadband seismic station NUPH (Nanometrics Trillium Compact 120s) at 5.5 km southeast of the active vent.
We used the seismic data bandpass filtered between 1 and 4 Hz to mark the start and end of 7058 tremor pulses. The catalog hence comprises 14116 markers, that are statistically further evaluated in Eibl et al. (in review). From 2 May to 14 June, several changes in pulse duration and repose time were found and used to subdivide this time interval into 6 periods with characteristic pulse pattern. We find exponentially decreasing pulse durations, coexisting short and long pulses and stable pulse durations superimposed by gradually increasing or suddenly decreasing repose times. We discuss the findings in the context of an evolving shallow-conduit container, the crater geometries, partial collapses from the crater rim and the amount of accumulating outgassed magma in Eibl et al. (in review). This data publications releases the catalog of 14116 tremor pulses /lava fountaining episodes.