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.
- accuracy
- case studies
- cellular automata
- computer programs
- computers
- data processing
- dynamics
- effusion
- emplacement
- eruptions
- Europe
- flow mechanism
- functions
- geologic hazards
- graphic display
- Italy
- lava flows
- mapping
- mathematical methods
- Mount Etna
- natural hazards
- numerical models
- parallel processing
- physical models
- prediction
- rates
- reliability
- rheology
- risk assessment
- risk management
- sensitivity analysis
- Sicily Italy
- simulation
- Southern Europe
- temperature
- viscosity
- visualization
- volcanic risk
- water content
- MAGFLOW
- CUDA
