Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Observing eruptions of gas-rich compressible magmas from space

  • Brendan McCormick Kilbride,
  • Marie Edmonds,
  • Juliet Biggs

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13744
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Satellite observations are an important tool in volcano monitoring, but observations such as ground deformation and gas emissions are treated independently. Here, the authors present a model coupling them through their link to magma volatile contents and storage depths prior to eruption