Improving on mass flow rate estimates of volcanic eruptions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Degruyter, W ^a   Bonadonna, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIPE FLOW; VOLCANOES;

ANALYTICAL EQUATIONS; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; FAST ASSESSMENT; FIRST ORDER; MASS FLOW RATE; MOUNT ST. HELENS; NEGATIVE R; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; PARAMETER SPACES; PLUME MODEL; REAL-TIME FORECASTING; STRONG WINDS; TEPHRA DEPOSITS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELS; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; VOLCANIC PLUME;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MANTLE PLUME; MASS TRANSPORT; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; REAL TIME; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ENGLAND; EYJAFJALLAJOKULL; ICELAND; SAINT HELENS [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84865764410     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052566     Document Type: Review

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