Discriminating the long distance dispersal of fine ash from sustained columns or near ground ash clouds: The example of the Pomici di Avellino eruption (Somma-Vesuvius, Italy)

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 263-276

  Sulpizio, Roberto ^a   Bonasia, Rosanna ^a   Dellino, Pierfrancesco ^a   Di Vito, Mauro A ^b   La Volpe, Luigi ^a   Mele, Daniela ^a   Zanchetta, Giovanni ^c   Sadori, Laura ^d  

^a CIRISIVU   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

ash dispersal; atmosphere dynamics; Pomici di Avellino eruption; tephra layers; volcanic hazard

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; DYNAMICS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TURBULENCE; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ASH DISPERSAL; ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS; POMICI DI AVELLINO ERUPTION; TEPHRA LAYERS; VOLCANIC HAZARD;

MINERALS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; DISPERSION; PHREATOMAGMATISM; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC CLOUD; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WIND FIELD;

AVELLINO; CAMPANIA [ITALY]; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; NAPOLI [CAMPANIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VESUVIUS;

PLINIA;

EID: 53949085752     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2007.11.012     Document Type: Article

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