Tephra hazard assessment at Mt. Etna (Italy)

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3221-3233

  Scollo, S ^a   Coltelli, M ^a   Bonadonna, C ^b   Del Carlo, P ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; FALLOUT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PLUME; PROBABILITY; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

PLINIA;

EID: 84890535567     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-3221-2013     Document Type: Article

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