Volcanic ash transport from Mount Asama to the Tokyo metropolitan area influenced by large-scale local wind circulation

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1248-1265

  Tsunematsu, Nobumitso ^a,d,e   Nagai, Tomohiro ^b   Murayama, Toshiyuki ^c   Adachi, Ahoro ^b   Murayama, Yasuhiro ^d  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOUNTINGS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RADAR; ROOM AND PILLAR MINING; SEA LEVEL; WATER LEVELS; WIND;

ABOVE MEAN SEA LEVELS; AEROSOL LIDARS; ASH CLOUDS; ASH PARTICLES; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSES; METROPOLITAN AREAS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; RETURN FLOWS; SATELLITE IMAGES; SEA BREEZES; SYNOPTIC WINDS; VALLEY WINDS; VOLCANIC ASHES;

VOLCANOES;

AEROSOL; LIDAR; METROPOLITAN AREA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA BREEZE; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WIND VELOCITY;

ASAMA VOLCANO; ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; NAGANO;

EID: 57649155871     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1644.1     Document Type: Article

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