Detecting a mass change inside a volcano by cosmic-ray muon radiography (muography): First results from measurements at asama volcano, Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Tanaka, Hiroyuki K M ^a,b   Uchida, Tomihisa ^a   Tanaka, Manobu ^c   Takeo, Minoru ^c   Oikawa, Jun ^a   Ohminato, Takao ^a   Aoki, Yosuke ^a   Koyama, Etsuro ^a   Tsuji, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOILING LIQUIDS; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; MONITORING; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BOILING LIQUID EXPANDING VAPOR EXPLOSIONS; COSMIC-RAY MUONS; MASS CHANGE; MASS LOSS; MODEL CALCULATIONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; VISUAL DETECTION; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; VOLCANO MONITORING SYSTEM;

VOLCANOES;

ASH FLOW; COSMIC RAY; LAVA FLOW; RADIOGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANO;

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

EID: 71949114941     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039448     Document Type: Article

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