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PLUME-MoM-TSM 1.0.0: a volcanic column and umbrella cloud spreading model
Mattia de' Michieli Vitturi
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Department of Geology, University at Buffalo, 126 Cooke Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
Federica Pardini
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Short summary
Here, we present PLUME-MoM-TSM, a volcanic plume model that allows us to quantify the formation of aggregates during the rise of the plume, model the phase change of water, and include the possibility to simulate the initial spreading of the tephra umbrella cloud intruding from the volcanic column into the atmosphere. The model is first applied to the 2015 Calbuco eruption (Chile) and provides an analytical relationship between the upwind spreading and some characteristic of the volcanic column.
Here, we present PLUME-MoM-TSM, a volcanic plume model that allows us to quantify the formation...