A review of volcanic electrification of the atmosphere and volcanic lightning

C Cimarelli, K Genareau - Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
The electrification of volcanic ash plumes and the occurrence of volcanic lightning are now
known to be common phenomena during explosive volcanic eruptions. This knowledge …

Volcanic electrification: recent advances and future perspectives

C Cimarelli, S Behnke, K Genareau, JM Harper… - Bulletin of …, 2022 - Springer
The electrification of volcanic plumes has been described intermittently since at least the
time of Pliny the Younger and the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius. Although sometimes …

Lightning rings and gravity waves: Insights into the giant eruption plume from Tonga's Hunga Volcano on 15 January 2022

AR Van Eaton, J Lapierre, SA Behnke… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract On 15 January 2022, Hunga Volcano in Tonga produced the most violent eruption
in the modern satellite era, sending a water‐rich plume at least 58 km high. Using a …

Responses of the AC/DC Global Electric Circuit to Volcanic Electrical Activity in the Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai Eruption on 15 January 2022

J Bór, T Bozóki, G Sátori, E Williams… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Responses of the AC and DC global electric circuits (GECs) to the large eruption of the
Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai (HT‐HH) volcano on 15 January 2022 are discussed. The AC …

Eruption dynamics leading to a volcanic thunderstorm—The January 2020 eruption of Taal volcano, Philippines

AR Van Eaton, CM Smith, M Pavolonis… - Geology, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Advances in global lightning detection have provided novel ways to characterize explosive
volcanism. However, researchers are still at the early stages of understanding how volcanic …

An evolutionary system of mineralogy, Part VI: Earth's earliest Hadean crust (> 4370 Ma)

SM Morrison, A Prabhu, RM Hazen - American Mineralogist, 2023 - degruyter.com
Part VI of the evolutionary system of mineralogy catalogs 262 kinds of minerals, formed by
18 different processes, that we suggest represent the earliest solid phases in Earth's crust …

Dynamics, monitoring, and forecasting of tephra in the atmosphere

F Pardini, S Barsotti, C Bonadonna… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Explosive volcanic eruptions inject hot mixtures of solid particles (tephra) and gasses into
the atmosphere. Entraining ambient air, these mixtures can form plumes rising tens of …

Tracking Eruption Column Thermal Evolution and Source Unsteadiness in Ground‐Based Thermal Imagery Using Spectral‐Clustering

CR Rowell, AM Jellinek… - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Volcanic eruption columns typically have unsteady source conditions, where mass and heat
fluxes from the vent evolve or fluctuate on time scales from seconds to hours. However …

Radio frequency characteristics of volcanic lightning and vent discharges

SA Behnke, H Edens, S Senay… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we analyze the pulse width and spectral content of vent discharges and
volcanic lightning flashes. We made measurements of electrical activity with a broadband …

Danjon Effect, Solar Activity, and Volcanism

BP Komitov, VI Kaftan - Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, 2022 - Springer
Volcanic eruption data available in the Internet archive of the Global Volcanism Program of
the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution have been used to …