Microwave remote sensing of the 2011 Plinian eruption of the Grímsvötn Icelandic volcano

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 129, Issue , 2013, Pages 168-184

  Marzano, Frank S ^a,b   Lamantea, Mirko ^a   Montopoli, Mario ^b,c   Herzog, Michael ^c   Graf, Hans ^c   Cimini, Domenico ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ash retrieval; Inversion methods; Microwave radiometry; Radar meteorology; Volcanic eruption clouds; Weather radars

Indexed keywords

ASH CLOUDS; ASH PARTICLES; ASH PLUMES; DISCHARGE RATES; EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; GROUND BASED; ICELANDICS; INVERSION METHODS; MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE RADARS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; MILLIMETER WAVE FREQUENCIES; NEAR-SURFACE; PLINIAN; PLINIAN ERUPTION; RADAR DATA; RADAR METEOROLOGY; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; SPACE-BORNE; SPATIAL AVERAGING; THERMAL INFRARED RADIOMETERS; VERTICAL PROFILE; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; WEATHER RADAR DATA;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ESTIMATION; FALLOUT; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MICROWAVES; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATURE;

VOLCANOES;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA INVERSION; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; FALLOUT; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; PLUME; RADAR IMAGERY; REFLECTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC CLOUD; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WIND DIRECTION;

GRIMSVOTN; ICELAND;

PLINIA;

EID: 84870296934     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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