Legal aspects of Risk Communication

20 Nov 2014 | Contributor(s): Richard Bretton, Jo Gottsmann, R Christie

Civil protection exercises for volcanic risk management. The VUELCO experience at midway.

20 Nov 2014 | Contributor(s): Stefano Ciolli, Chiara Cristiani

This lecture was given during the short-course titled "Coping with volcanic unrest" held in Quito (Ecuador) on November 2014.The presentation illustrates some essential key-elements to take into account in the preparation of a simulation exercise, providing useful suggestion taken...

3D Matlab Animation of Seismic Data of San Miguel (Chaparrastique) Volcano, El Salvador 2000-2014

31 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Bettina Martinez-Hackert, Jude Sabato

Plot of volcanic earthquake foci data of Volcano San Miguel, and matlab script with explanations. To run the script three files were used: dem.txt   ( Digital Elevation Model), epicenters.txt ( hypocentersand there spatial  distribution) and years.txt ( the temporal...

Scientific advice, decision-making, risk communication - Synthesis and best practices retrieved

24 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Stefano Ciolli, Luigi Coppola, Giuseppe Amorosi Golisciani

Synthesis and best practices retrieved during the 2nd VUELCO workshop, held at Department of Civil Protection (Rome) on 7th and 8th November 2013.Report is divided into the three workshop sessions:1- "SCIENTIFIC ADVICE: Scientists-decision makers interaction and advice giving" 2-...

Scientific advice, decision-making, risk communication - abstracts

24 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Stefano Ciolli, Giuseppe Amorosi Golisciani

Abstracts book of the presentations given during the 2nd VUELCO workshop, held at Department of Civil Protection (Rome) on 7th and 8th November 2013.

VUELCO- Campi Flegrei Caldera Unrest Scientific Simulation - Debriefing Report

24 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Stefano Ciolli, Chiara Cristiani, Giuseppe Amorosi Golisciani

Document summaryzing the debriefing of the exercise, done with the contribution of all the involved partners.

VUELCO- Campi Flegrei Caldera Unrest Scientific Simulation - Simulation Plan

24 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Stefano Ciolli, Chiara Cristiani, Giuseppe Amorosi Golisciani

Official Plan for the development of the Campi Flegrei caldera simulation - Italy, 9th-13th Febuary 2012 - within the activities of VUELCO project, WP 9, task 9.6.

Dome rock densification parameters

20 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Fabian Ben Wadsworth, Betty Scheu

Volcanic plume simulation using ATHAM

12 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Nial Peters, Alex Hoffman, Talfan Barnie, Michael Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer

These simulation runs were carried out in order to produce sets of synthetic SO2 camera images which could be used for validating SO2 flux calculation algorithms. Results from two model runs are provided: a "closed top" run which had a rigid boundary at the top of the domain, and an...

Tool for interactive airborne ash detection in a SEVIRI image

24 Sep 2014 | Contributor(s): shona mackie

This is a widget that can be invoked from IDL to display a region of SEVIRI imagery at thermal infrared wavelengths and discriminate airborne volcanic ash within it. Thresholds can be interactively set and applied across the image to create a dynamic ash mask. Thresholds are based on both a...

Geochemistry and Petrology first response draft

28 Aug 2014 | Contributor(s): Gudmundur H Gudfinnsson, Armann Hoskuldsson, Níels Örn Óskarsson

Here are the documents which were presented at the meeting on the 27th of August. Please feel free to download, edit, and then update the files stored here.

AshCalc

22 Feb 2014 | *Tools | Contributor(s): Matthew Daggitt, David Pyle, Tamsin Alice Mather

Calculates exponential, power law and Weibull distributions for tephra volumes from isopach data.

Puff notes for 2013-2014

12 Aug 2014 | Miscellaneous | Contributor(s): Peter W Webley

Included here are my notes that are on the wiki as well as the workflow for the Puffin-Bent tool via shell and perl scripts.

Contribution of methane to total gas pressure in deep waters at lakes Nyos and Monoun (Cameroon, West Africa)

17 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Issa, Takeshi Ohba, Wilson Fangtong, Alain Fouepe, CHAKO TCHAMABE Boris, Yukata Yoshida, Minoru Kusakabe, Sigha Kamdjou, Urumu TSUNOGAI, Yu Uginuma, Greg Zinkeng Tanyileke, Hell J.V.

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/geochemj/47/3/47_2.0250/_article

MeMoVolc workshop on the "Dynamics of volcanic explosive eruptions", Consensual Document

15 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Costanza Bonadonna, Raffaello Cioni, Antonio Costa, Tim Druitt, Jeremy Phillips, Laura Pioli

This workshop served to assess the main advantages and shortcomings of existing eruption classification schemes and to identify open questions and research priorities that could help improve our understanding of volcanic explosive eruptions. We identified the main parameters and processes...

old flowchart - from Koji's work

17 Jun 2014 | Miscellaneous | Contributor(s): Chuck B Connor

The is the "original" flowchart for the proto-verrm code

Keweenaw Geoheritage

05 Jun 2014 | Educational Materials | Contributor(s): William I Rose

The site interprets the exposed section of the Mesoproterozoic mid-continent rift, the Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale, Michigan. It includes some of Earth's most voluminous lava flows, a large thrust fault, a vast sequence of fluvial red beds and unique native copper deposits. The geology...