Monitoring Etna volcanic plumes using a scanning LiDAR

Bulletin of Volcanology

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2383-2395

  Scollo, Simona ^a   Boselli, Antonella ^b   Coltelli, Mauro ^a   Leto, Giuseppe ^c   Pisani, Gianluca ^d   Spinelli, Nicola ^d   Wang, Xuan ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI CATANIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ash emission episodes; Etna; Scanning LiDAR measurements; Volcanic plume

Indexed keywords

DEGASSING; LIDAR; PLUME; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANOLOGY;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84870673369     PISSN: 02588900     EISSN: 14320819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-012-0669-y     Document Type: Article

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