Cities on Volcanoes 6 - Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) from May 31 to June 4, 2010   
SESSION 2.7 English 日本語 Português Español
Understanding and mitigating the impacts of volcanic ash fall

Convenors Tom Wilson
  University of Canterbury
  NewZealand
  Email: thomas.wilson@canterbury.ac.nz

Graham Leonard
  GNS Science
  NewZealand
  Email: G.Leonard@gns.cri.nz

Christina Neal
  USGS AVO
  Alaska
  Email: tneal@usgs.gov

Peter Baxter
  University of Cambridge
  United Kingdom
  Email: pjb21@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Description This session will cover several focus areas for discussion:
 
Social and infrastructure ash fall impact data and data collection.
Effective communication of ash impacts and mitigation information - audiences and media.
Effective ash fall warning messages
Sharing ash impacts data and observations, including data repositories.
Ash impact loss-damage functions for risk calculation.
Processes for data collection and analysis


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