Quantifying volcanic ash dispersal and impact of the Campanian Ignimbrite super-eruption

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Costa, A ^a,b   Folch, A ^c   Macedonio, G ^b   Giaccio, B ^d   Isaia, R ^b   Smith, V C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b OSSERVATORIO VESUVIANO   (Italy)

^c BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID RAIN; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

CAMPANIAN IGNIMBRITE; CLIMATIC EPISODES; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; EASTERN EUROPE; HEINRICH EVENTS; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; TEPHRA DEPOSITS; TIME DEPENDENT;

VOLCANOES;

ACID RAIN; DISPERSION; FALLOUT; FLUORIDE; HEINRICH EVENT; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; IGNIMBRITE; LAST GLACIAL; LEACHATE; PALEOLITHIC; RECONSTRUCTION; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; TEPHRA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WIND FIELD;

EUROPE; ITALY;

EID: 84861682660     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051605     Document Type: Article

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