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The simulations also give insights into our record of past volcanoes. We often research past volcanoes through the ash they deposited in Greenland ice cores. Given that in many of our simulations the ash from our Icelandic volcano did not reach its neighboring country, we may likely lack eruption recordings for many past volcanoes near Greenland.
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My simulations did not demonstrate seasonal trends; in order to demonstrate seasonal trends, one should take the daily average of all dispersal simulations over the month of January versus the daily average over the month of July. Due to the daily variations, looking at individual days in January versus individual days in July did not show meaningful insights re seasonal trends.
It would also be interesting to look at the In order to understand the smallest time period over which changing the eruption date would cause the ash dispersal to vary. To do so, one must look into the time scales of the eddys in the Icelandic region. Further simulations should explore variations in dispersal from daily changes to the eruption date . (as opposed to daily averages over month-long periods to see seasonal trends).