Detecting, Modelling and Responding to Effusive Eruptions
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For effusive volcanoes in resource-poor regions, there is a pressing need for a crisis response-chain bridging the global scientific community to allow provision of standard products for timely humanitarian response. As a first step in attaining this need, this Special Publication provides a complete directory of current operational capabilities for monitoring effusive eruptions. This volume also reviews the state-of-the-art in terms of satellite-based volcano hot-spot tracking and lava-flow simulation. These capabilities are demonstrated using case studies taken from well-known effusive events that have occurred worldwide over the last two decades at volcanoes such as Piton de la Fournaise, Etna, Stromboli and Kilauea. We also provide case-type response models implemented at the same volcanoes, as well as the results of a community-wide drill used to test a fully-integrated response focused on an operational hazard-GIS. Finally, the objectives and recommendations of the ‘Risk Evaluation, Detection and Simulation during Effusive Eruption Disasters’ working group are laid out in a statement of community needs by its members.
SCIARA: cellular automata lava flow modelling and applications in hazard prediction and mitigation
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Published:January 01, 2016
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R. Rongo, V. Lupiano, W. Spataro, D. D’ambrosio, G. Iovine, G. M. Crisci, 2016. "SCIARA: cellular automata lava flow modelling and applications in hazard prediction and mitigation", Detecting, Modelling and Responding to Effusive Eruptions, A. J. L. Harris, T. De Groeve, F. Garel, S. A. Carn
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Abstract
The use of thematic volcanic hazard maps is essential for policy managers and administrators in land use planning and to determine the best form of action during emergencies. In particular, hazard maps are a key tool in emergency management and are used to describe the threat expected at a certain location in the event of future eruptions. We applied the latest version of the SCIARA lava flow cellular automata model using parallel computing through general purpose graphics processing units technology to derive lava flow hazard maps for Mt Etna, Sicily. The methodology relies on an accurate analysis of the past behaviour of the volcano and is appropriate for land use planning and civil defence applications.
- applications
- cellular automata
- data bases
- data processing
- equations
- eruptions
- Europe
- geologic hazards
- human ecology
- infrastructure
- Italy
- land use
- lava flows
- mapping
- mathematical models
- methods
- mitigation
- models
- Mount Etna
- natural hazards
- parallel processing
- planning
- populations
- prediction
- probability
- risk assessment
- risk management
- Sicily Italy
- simulation
- Southern Europe
- statistical analysis
- vents
- visualization
- volcanic risk
- volcanism
- volcanoes
- SCIARA