Volcanic ash layer depth: Processes and mechanisms

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 637-645

  Dacre, H F ^a   Grant, A L M ^a   Harvey, N J ^a   Thomson, D J ^b   Webster, H N ^b   Marenco, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ash sedimentation; ash size distribution; turbulent mixing; vertical wind shear

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; MIXING; SHOCK TUBES; STATISTICS; TURBULENT FLOW;

ASH PARTICLES; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION MODELLING; DOMINANT PROCESS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TURBULENT MIXING; VERTICAL EMISSION; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; VOLCANIC ASH CLOUDS;

VOLCANOES;

ASH FLOW; CLIMATE MODELING; LIDAR; SIMULATION; TURBULENT FLOW; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WIND SHEAR;

EYJAFJALLAJOKULL; ICELAND;

EID: 84923549852     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062454     Document Type: Article

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