Europe on the lookout for the Icelandic volcano ash cloud

REYKJAVIK – An eruption of Iceland's most active volcano has been on the island's main airport on Monday kept closed while the other European nations saw the impact on their routes from a towering cloud of smoke and ash.

Experts say they saw little chance of a repeat of last year's six-day closure is the airspace, which also affected transatlantic flights, erupted when another Icelandic volcano, although the airline has warned the new ash cloud drifting.

So far, Iceland, especially the towns and villages in the south and east of the Grimsvötn volcano, has suffered the most.

Days turned into night, when a thick cloud of ash on the site down, wrestling, cars and buildings.

The cloud had begun over the capital Reykjavik late on Sunday evening and the Civil Aviation Authority said drift prospects for the reopening of the main international airport on Monday was not good.

Europe's air navigation service warned on its website that ash could spread to the south.

"Ash cloud is expected to reach northern Scotland on Tuesday, May 24. If further volcanic emissions with the same intensity, cloud could reach the west and French airspace in northern Spain on Thursday 26 May," € Control said in a traffic report.

The agency, set up a crisis unit to poor coordination of the deterioration of last year's crisis was made responsible, said no closures outside of Iceland on Monday or Tuesday were expected.

Airlines far so away as Australia said they were monitoring the situation after the travel and transport disruption around the world and cost the industry some curled 1700000000 $ in the last year.

Iceland Meteorological Office said the pen of Grimsvötn that exploded recently in 2004, had fallen into the height of a peak of about 25 km (16 miles) in the hours after the outbreak was now operating and stable.

"It has constantly throughout the night just under 10 kilometers," Met Office forecaster Teitur Arason, adding that current wind conditions were the ashes spread in different directions.

"The winds two chapters of history. The winds are high in the air, or about 25,000 feet is about south-east, so that ash blow to the north and then later in the East.

"But at the lower levels, the winds are blowing north, so the ash to the south."

The outbreak was much stronger than that of a volcano further south in the past year, closed the European airspace or stopped transatlantic flights last April, due to worries that particles in jet engines and cause accidents could get.

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

"We see signs that the (Eruption's) power is declining a bit, but it is still very powerful," he said, adding that the outbreak of the most violent at the volcano since 1873 was.

Gudmundsson and other volcanologists said the impact on air travel for this period would be limited, as winds were favorable, the flag was to disseminate the contents of major and rare, and the authorities had a higher tolerance for ash levels.

Some airlines complained that authorities were overly cautious in imposing blanket closures of airspace during last year's eruption.

Icelandair, the most important airline on the island, stopped flights on Sunday and said on its website containing can be continued on Monday. He said 6,000 passengers had been affected by cancellations.

Dave Mcgarvie, volcanologist at the Open University in Britain said an ash, which England would be achieved less than last year and added that experience would lead since the beginning of 2010 to fewer interruptions.

In emailed comments, he said "small diversion" should allow aircraft to their zones, in which ash is concentrated avoided.

Grimsvötn below the Vatnajökull glacier in southeast Iceland, the largest glacier in Europe.

Areas south of the glaciers have covered in thick layers of ash, and the sun was blocked for several hours.

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