Open AccessCan Water Vapor Help Forecast When a Volcano Will Blow?
Author(s) -
Emily Underwood
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2017eo077099
Subject(s) - volcano , water vapor , environmental science , focus (optics) , meteorology , earth science , atmospheric sciences , geology , seismology , geography , optics , physics
A widely used technique to monitor sulfur dioxide was tweaked to focus on water vapor at Peru’s Sabancaya Volcano. Results show that the volcano steamed up prior to its 2016 eruption.