WOVOdat – the global volcano unrest database aimed at improving eruption forecasts. Issue 6 (11th November 2019)
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- Title:
- WOVOdat – the global volcano unrest database aimed at improving eruption forecasts. Issue 6 (11th November 2019)
- Main Title:
- WOVOdat – the global volcano unrest database aimed at improving eruption forecasts
- Authors:
- Costa, Fidel
Widiwijayanti, Christina
Nang, Thin Zar Win
Fajiculay, Erickson
Espinosa-Ortega, Tania
Newhall, Christopher - Abstract:
- Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of a comprehensive global database on volcanic unrest (WOVOdat) as a resource to improve eruption forecasts, hazard evaluation and mitigation actions. Design/methodology/approach: WOVOdat is a centralized database that hosts multi-parameter monitoring data sets from unrest and eruption episodes of volcanoes worldwide. Its online interface (https://wovodat.org/ ) allows interactive data analysis and comparison between volcanoes and eruption styles, which is needed during volcanic crises, as well as to perform basic research on pre-eruption processes, teaching and outreach. Findings: WOVOdat aims to standardize and organize the myriad of monitoring data types at the global scale. Users can compare changes during a crisis to past unrest episodes, and estimate probabilities of outcomes using evidence-based statistics. WOVOdat will be to volcanology as an epidemiological database is to medicine. Research limitations/implications: The success of eruption forecast relies on data completeness, and thus requires the willingness of observatories, governments and researchers to share data across the volcano community. Practical implications: WOVOdat is a unique resource that can be studied to understand the causes of volcanic unrest and to improve eruption forecasting. Originality/value: WOVOdat is the only compilation of standardized and multi-parameter volcano unrest data from around the world, and it isAbstract : Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of a comprehensive global database on volcanic unrest (WOVOdat) as a resource to improve eruption forecasts, hazard evaluation and mitigation actions. Design/methodology/approach: WOVOdat is a centralized database that hosts multi-parameter monitoring data sets from unrest and eruption episodes of volcanoes worldwide. Its online interface (https://wovodat.org/ ) allows interactive data analysis and comparison between volcanoes and eruption styles, which is needed during volcanic crises, as well as to perform basic research on pre-eruption processes, teaching and outreach. Findings: WOVOdat aims to standardize and organize the myriad of monitoring data types at the global scale. Users can compare changes during a crisis to past unrest episodes, and estimate probabilities of outcomes using evidence-based statistics. WOVOdat will be to volcanology as an epidemiological database is to medicine. Research limitations/implications: The success of eruption forecast relies on data completeness, and thus requires the willingness of observatories, governments and researchers to share data across the volcano community. Practical implications: WOVOdat is a unique resource that can be studied to understand the causes of volcanic unrest and to improve eruption forecasting. Originality/value: WOVOdat is the only compilation of standardized and multi-parameter volcano unrest data from around the world, and it is freely and easily accessible through an online interface. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- Disaster prevention and management. Volume 28:Issue 6(2019)
- Journal:
- Disaster prevention and management
- Issue:
- Volume 28:Issue 6(2019)
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- Volume 28, Issue 6 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 28
- Issue:
- 6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0028-0006-0000
- Page Start:
- 738
- Page End:
- 751
- Publication Date:
- 2019-11-11
- Subjects:
- Database -- Eruption forecast -- FAIR data -- Volcano unrest
Emergency management -- Periodicals
Disaster relief -- Periodicals
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- 10.1108/DPM-09-2019-0301 ↗
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- 0965-3562
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