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Aug 26, 2020 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
This is a paper about mapping volcanic ash clouds. Mapping volcanic ash clouds is hard. See the end of this blog post for details: all-geo.org/volcan01010/20… TL;DR you can use satellites or computer simulations but both have limitations. Simulations depend on good input data. 1/
The most important input for a simulation of volcanic ash dispersion is plume height. Particles released from higher travel further and in different directions to those below. But there is a more important reason... 2/
