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Temporal models for the occurrence of Etna eruptions and implications for hazard assessment
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Alexander Garcia
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Simona Scollo
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Etneo, Catania, Italy
Luigi Mereu
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Etneo, Catania, Italy
Michele Prestifilippo
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Etneo, Catania, Italy
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The purpose of the EUNADICS-AV (European Natural Airborne Disaster Information and Coordination System for Aviation) prototype early warning system (EWS) is to develop the combined use of harmonised data products from satellite, ground-based and in situ instruments to produce alerts of airborne hazards (volcanic, dust, smoke and radionuclide clouds), satisfying the requirement of aviation air traffic management (ATM) stakeholders (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/723986).
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We model how eruptive events occur in time at Mt Etna. We distinguish between eruptions from flank fissures and paroxysmal eruptions from the summit craters. Our model allows to compute the expected annual frequency of flank events and the expected number of summit paroxysms in a future period of time, with uncertainty estimates. We show how this model can improve the assessment of probabilistic hazard from these eruptions.
We model how eruptive events occur in time at Mt Etna. We distinguish between eruptions from...
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