MODAPLUMES: Models and Data for Plumes

Sébastien Valade
Dec 1, 2012

Funding source: European MEMOVOLC Young Researcher travel grant.

Project written to bring together expertises of two postdocs studying volcanic plumes with complementary approaches: Sébastien Valade (volcanologist/geophysicist working at LMV, France), and Matteo Cerminara (physicist working at INGV-Pisa, Italy).

Two complementary articles on volcanic were published thanks to the exchange:

  • S. Valade, A. J. Harris, and M. Cerminara (2014) “Plume ascent tracker: interactive matlab software for analysis of ascending plumes in image data,” Computers and Geosciences, vol. 66, pp. 132–144, doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2013.12.015

  • M. Cerminara, T. Esposti Ongaro, S. Valade, and A. Harris, “Volcanic plume vent conditions retrieved from infrared images: a forward and inverse modeling approach,” Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, vol. 300, 2014. doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2014.12.015