Retrieval of Tephra Size Spectra and Mass Flow Rate from C-Band Radar during the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull Eruption, Iceland

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5644-5660

  Mereu, Luigi ^a,b   Marzano, Frank S ^a,b   Montopoli, Mario ^a,b   Bonadonna, Costanza ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Radar data; tephra; volcanic eruption

Indexed keywords

FLOW RATE; MASS TRANSFER; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SCREENING; VOLCANOES;

AGGREGATION PROCESS; MASS CONTINUITY EQUATION; MEAN PARTICLE DIAMETER; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RADAR DATA; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

RADAR;

AGGREGATION; ASH FLOW; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRAIN SIZE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MAGMA; MASS TRANSPORT; MODEL TEST; MONITORING SYSTEM; PARTICLE SIZE; RADAR; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEPHRA; TIME SERIES; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EYJAFJALLAJOKULL; ICELAND;

EID: 84933060144     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2427032     Document Type: Article

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