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Authors: | Costa, A.* Folch, A.* Macedonio, G.* |
Title: | Density-driven transport in the umbrella region of volcanic clouds: Implications for tephra dispersion models | Journal: | Geophysical Research Letters | Series/Report no.: | /40 (2013) | Publisher: | American Geophysical Union | Issue Date: | 2013 | DOI: | 10.1002/grl.50942 | Keywords: | Large explosive eruptions Volcanic ash transport volcanic modeling tephra transport |
Subject Classification: | 05. General::05.01. Computational geophysics::05.01.99. General or miscellaneous | Abstract: | Large explosive volcanic eruptions can generate ash clouds from rising plumes that spread in the atmosphere around a Neutral Buoyancy Level (NBL). These ash clouds spread as inertial intrusions and are advected by atmospheric winds. For low mass flow rates, tephra transport is mainly dictated by wind advection, because ash cloud spreading due to gravity current effects is negligible (passive transport). For large mass flow rates, gravity-driven transport at the NBL can be the dominant transport mechanism. Conditions under which the passive transport assumption is valid have not yet been critically studied. We analyze the conditions when gravity-driven transport is dominant in terms of the cloud Richardson number. Moreover, we couple an analytical model that describes cloud spreading as a gravity current with an advection-diffusion model. This coupled model is used to simulate the evolution of the volcanic cloud during the climatic phase of the 1991 Pinatubo eruption. Citation: Costa, A., A. Folch, and G. Macedonio (2013), Density-driven transport in the umbrella region of volcanic clouds: Implications for tephra dispersion models. |
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