Phenomenology, eruption precursors, hazard forecast and risk mitigation
The VUELCO project consortium has come together for a multi-disciplinary attack on the origin, nature and significance of volcanic unrest from the scientific contributions generated by collaboration of ten partners in Europe and Latin America.
Dissecting the science of monitoring data from unrest periods at six type volcanoes in Italy, Spain, the West Indies, Mexico and Ecuador the consortium will create global strategies for:
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enhanced monitoring capacity and value
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mechanistic data interpretation
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identification of reliable eruption precursors
all from the geophysical, geochemical and geodetic fingerprints of unrest episodes.