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Satellite observations and numerical simulation results for the comprehensive analysis of ash cloud transport during the explosive eruptions of Kamchatka volcanoes

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Ash clouds resulting from explosive volcanic eruptions pose a real threat to human life (for aircraft flights, airport operations, etc.); therefore, the detection, monitoring, and forecast of their movement is an urgent and important issue. The features and examples of application of the new tool developed on the basis of "Monitoring of Active Volcanoes of Kamchatka and the Kurile Islands" information system (VolSatView) are described. It allows the integrated monitoring and forecasting of ash cloud transport using the data of remote sensing and mathematical modeling as well as the assessment of the parameters of explosive events.

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  1. Computing center, Far eastern branch, russian academy of sciences, ul. Kim Yu Chena 65, Khabarovsk, 680000, Russia

    A. A. Sorokin, S. I. Mal’kovskii & S. P. Korolev

  2. Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, bul. Piipa 9, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683006, Russia

    O. A. Girina & I. M. Romanova

  3. Space research institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Profsoyuznaya 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    E. A. Lupyan, I. V. Balashov & V. Yu. Efremov

  4. Far eastern center of planeta research center for space hydrometeorology, ul. Lenina 18, Khabarovsk, 680000, Russia

    L. S. Kramareva & E. V. Simonenko

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Sorokin, O.A. Girina, E.A. Lupyan, S.I. Mal'kovskii, I.V. Balashov, V.Yu. Efremov, L.S. Kramareva, S.P. Korolev, I.M. Romanova, E.V. Simonenko, 2017, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2017, No. 12, pp. 25-34.

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Sorokin, A.A., Girina, O.A., Lupyan, E.A. et al. Satellite observations and numerical simulation results for the comprehensive analysis of ash cloud transport during the explosive eruptions of Kamchatka volcanoes. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 42, 759–765 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373917120032

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