On a Possible Unified Scaling Law for Volcanic Eruption Durations.

ABSTRACT: Volcanoes constitute dissipative systems with many degrees of freedom. Their eruptions are the result of complex processes that involve interacting chemical-physical systems. At present, due to the complexity of involved phenomena and to the lack of precise measurements, both analytical and numerical models are unable to simultaneously include the main processes involved in eruptions thus making forecasts of volcanic dynamics rather unreliable. On the other hand, accurate forecasts of some eruption parameters, such as the duration, could be a key factor in natural hazard estimation and mitigation. Analyzing a large database with most of all the known volcanic eruptions, we have determined that the duration of eruptions seems to be described by a universal distribution which characterizes e

SUBMITTER: Cannavo F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4772095 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature