Ash-plume dynamics and eruption source parameters by infrasound and thermal imagery: The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 366, Issue , 2013, Pages 112-121

  Ripepe, M ^a   Bonadonna, C ^b   Folch, A ^c   Delle Donne, D ^a   Lacanna, G ^a   Marchetti, E ^a   Hoskuldsson A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Ash eruptions; Infrasound; Mass eruption rate; Plume height

Indexed keywords

CIVIL AVIATION SAFETIES; ERUPTION RATES; GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; INFRASOUND; PLUME HEIGHTS; RADAR OBSERVATIONS;

FORECASTING; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

DYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GRAIN SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WIND FIELD;

EYJAFJALLAJOKULL; ICELAND;

EID: 84875536800     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.02.005     Document Type: Article

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