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First IAVCEI-WMO workshop on Ash Dispersal Forecast and Civil Aviation
From: Costanza Bonadonna <Costanza.Bonadonna@xxxxxxxx>
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First IAVCEI-WMO Workshop on Ash Dispersal Forecast and Civil Aviation
The first IAVCEI-WMO workshop on “Ash Dispersal Forecast and Civil Aviation” was held in Geneva (Switzerland) on October 18-20 2010 and has gathered volcanologists, meteorologists, atmospheric dispersion modelers, and space and ground-based monitoring specialists from 12 different countries, including representatives from 6 Volcanic Ash Advisory Centers (VAACs) and related institutions. A model benchmark exercise (based on the Hekla 2000 eruption) was performed before the workshop by 12 Volcanic Ash Transport and Dispersal Models (VATDM), which includes the vast majority of VATDMs existing worldwide and all models currently operative at VAACs. In addition, two detailed documents have been compiled to define application conditions and outputs of both VATDM and selected data-acquisition techniques associated with ash detection. A consensual document was also produced describing the characteristics and range of application of different VATDMs, identifying the needs of the modeling community, investigating new data-acquisition strategies and discussing how to improve communication between the volcanological community and operational agencies.
The workshop Consensual Document and the two documents describing the details of VATDMs used in the benchmark and selected data-acquisition techniques associated with ash detection (i.e., Model Summary Document and Data-Acquisition Summary Document) can be found at the workshop website: www.unige.ch/hazards/Workshop.html
Best Regards,
Costanza Bonadonna, Arnau Folch, Sue Loughlin and Herbert Puempel
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