Insights on tephra settling velocity from morphological observations

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 208, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 86-98

  Alfano, Fabrizio ^a   Bonadonna, Costanza ^a   Delmelle, Pierre ^b   Costantini, Licia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D ANALYSIS; 3D-SCANNING; AVERAGE VALUES; CLASS SIZE; DRAG PREDICTION; FALL VELOCITIES; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; INDIVIDUAL SIZE; KILAUEA; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION; MORPHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS; NANOMETRICS; NICARAGUA; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARTICLE MORPHOLOGIES; PARTICLE POPULATION; PARTICLE SHAPE; PARTICLE SURFACE AREA; SETTLING VELOCITY; SIZE CLASS; SIZE FRACTION; SMALL PARTICLE SIZE; SPHERICAL MODELS; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE CONTRIBUTION; TEPHRA DISPERSAL;

DRAG; GAS ADSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPHERES; SUBSONIC AERODYNAMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY; VOLCANOES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DOME; DRAG; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICLE SETTLING; PARTICLE SIZE; PREDICTION; SURFACE AREA; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; KILAUEA; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; MASAYA; MASAYA VOLCANO; MONTSERRAT; NICARAGUA; SOUFRIERE HILLS VOLCANO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80955137631     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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