Facing the challenges of the international airways volcano watch: The 2004/05 eruptions of Manam, Papua New Guinea

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 175-191

  Tupper, Andrew ^a,b   Itikarai, Ima ^c   Richards, Michael ^d   Prata, Fred ^e   Carn, Simon ^f   Rosenfeld, Daniel ^g  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Rabaul Volcanological Observatory   (Papua New Guinea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^g HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED IMAGING; MONITORING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THUNDERSTORMS; VOLCANOES;

CLIMATIC ERUPTION; ICE-RICH CLOUDS; SATELLITE POSTANALYSIS;

SEISMOLOGY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CUMULONIMBUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGERY; LIGHTNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SULFUR DIOXIDE; THUNDERSTORM; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC CLOUD; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ASIA; CENTRAL LUZON; DILI; EURASIA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; MELANESIA; MOUNT PINATUBO; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUNDA ISLES; TIMOR; TIMOR-LESTE; ZAMBALES;

PINATUBO;

EID: 33947282745     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF974.1     Document Type: Article

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