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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...
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Estimating Volcanic Risk in the Lesser Antilles
26 Sep 2013 | Contributor(s): Michal Camejo, Richard E.A. Robertson
The potential catastrophic effects of future volcanic eruptions in the Lesser Antilles can be decreased by the utilisation of effective risk quantification measures and their subsequent incorporation into disaster risk reduction strategies. A volcanic risk study conducted by the Norwegian...
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New Methods and Computer Codes for Volcanic Modelling
18 Jul 2013 | Contributor(s): Martha Kane Savage, Yosuke Aoki, Thomas Lecocq, Jess Johnson, Florent Brenguier, Benoit Taisne, Charles Williams, Nico Fournier
This workshop was undertaken before the IAVCEI conference in July 2013, complementing the session on "Stress, strain and mass changes at active volcanoes. It brings together seismic and geodetic methods and computational approaches for modelling volcanic processes.Material presented includes:1....
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VHAST
04 Apr 2013 | Contributor(s): Gabriel Andrés Bernal
VHAST (Volcanic Hazard Analysis and Simulation Tool)is a probabilistic volcanic hazard assessment software. It has been developed in Visual Basic .NET and runs on Windows XP or later. VHAST supports hazard analysis of lava flows, pyroclastic flows and ash fall, using simplified models.The...
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An assessment of hydrothermal alteration in the Santiaguito lava dome complex, Guatemala: implications for dome collapse hazards
28 Feb 2013 | Contributor(s): Jessica L. Ball, Eliza S Calder, Marc Bernstein
A combination of field mapping, geochemistry, and remote sensing methods has been employed to determine the extent of hydrothermal alteration and assess the potential for failure at the Santiaguito lava dome complex, Guatemala. The 90-year-old complex of four lava domes has only experienced...
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PyBetVH
28 Mar 2012 | *Tools | Contributor(s): Roberto Tonini, Laura Sandri, Jacopo Selva, Warner Marzocchi
Compute long-term volcanic hazard using the Bayesian Event Tree for Volcanic Hazard (BET_VH) model
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Volcanic clouds observed by the A-Train satellite constellation
12 Mar 2012 | *Data Sets/Collections | Contributor(s): Simon Carn
A collection of images showing volcanic eruption clouds detected by NASA's A-Train satellite constellation, which includes the Aqua, CALIPSO, CloudSat and Aura satellites. These examples demonstrate the unique ability of the A-Train to provide coincident, multi-spectral, active and passive remote...
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Satellite remote sensing of volcanic SO2 emissions
29 Nov 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): William I Rose
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Why measure volcanic emissions from space?
29 Nov 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): William I Rose
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Eyjafjallajökull, volcanic clouds and aviation - one year on
05 Aug 2011 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Simon Carn
A workshop at the 2011 IUGG General Assembly in Melbourne, Australia, lead by Andrew Tupper (Australian Bureau of Meteorology), Fred Prata (Norwegian Institute for Air Research), and Arnau Folch (Barcelona Supercomputing Center).The Eyjafjallajokull eruption, resulting in ground and air...
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Volcano Monitoring Workshops II : IUGG 2011
16 Jul 2011 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Eliza S Calder
Organized by Jeffrey Johnson & Eliza CalderWorkshop Title: Ground-Based and Remote Sensing of Volcanic UnrestThe workshop involved seven talks focused on fundamental tools used for monitoring and scientific investigation of active volcanic systems. Lectures emphasized emerging technologies,...
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Remote Sensing of Volcanic Gas Emissions
29 Jun 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Simon Carn
This presentation is part of the workshop "Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America" held in Costa Rica in January 2011.Speaker: Simon Carn
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New Techniques and Technologies for Remote Sensing of Volcanic Ash and SO2 Gas
29 Jun 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Jose Luis Palma
This presentation is part of the workshop "Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America" held in Costa Rica in January 2011.Speaker: Fred PrataFred Prata
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Observing volcanic clouds
29 Jun 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): William I Rose
This presentation is part of the workshop "Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America" held in Costa Rica in January 2011.Speaker: William I. Rose
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OMIplot
13 May 2011 | Offline Tools | Contributor(s): Simon Carn
OMIplot is a software package that can be used to ingest, visualize and analyze sulfur dioxide (SO2) data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) aboard NASA's Aura satellite. The OMI SO2 measurements can be used to track drifting volcanic eruption clouds and study volcanic degassing. OMI...
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More Volcanic Ash Remote Sensing
27 Apr 2011 | Presentations | Contributor(s): William I Rose
Environmental aspects of volcanic clouds as investigated by remote sensing tools. Ice in volcanic clouds. Separation of ash and SO2 in volcanic clouds.Rose, W. I., D. J. Delene, D. J. Schneider, G. J. S. Bluth, A. J. Krueger, I. Sprod, C. McKee, H. L. Davies and G. G. J. Ernst, 1995, Ice in the...
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PASI: Volcanic Hazards and Remote Sensing in Pacific Latin America
11 Jan 2011 | Workshops | Contributor(s): William I Rose, Jose Luis Palma
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~raman/PASI2011The Open Vent Volcanoes PASI in Costa Rica gathered 60 scientists from 13 countries to build scientific networking in the transdisciplinary field of volcanology in January 2011. The accelerating application of field measurements and remote sensing to...
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Large-Scale Experiments Workshop
08 Oct 2010 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Greg A Valentine, Pierfrancesco Dellino, Costanza Bonadonna, Amanda Bachtell Clarke
This workshop aimed at developing research priorities and initial design concepts for an international user facility for large-scale experimentation on volcanic processes.Agenda .pdfPresentationsIntroduction by Greg Valentine .pdf .movIntegrating numerical and laboratory models of explosive...