Data insertion in volcanic ash cloud forecasting

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 57, Issue FastTrack2, 2014, Pages

  Wilkins, Kate L ^a   Mackie, Shona ^a   Matthew Watson, I ^a   Webster, Helen N ^b   Thomson, David J ^b   Dacre, Helen F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Dispersion model; Forecasting; Remote sensing; Volcanic ash

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC CLOUD; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EYJAFJALLAJOKULL; ICELAND;

EID: 84940918239     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-6624     Document Type: Article

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