REPORT:
Volcanic Ash and Aviation Safety: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Volcanic Ash and Aviation Safety

Table of Contents

• Foreword -- Dallas L. Peck, Director, USGS, 1981-1993
• Introduction -- Thomas J. Casadevall
  • Issues and Needs
  • Developments Since the Symposium
  • International Efforts
  • Effects in the United States
  • Future Directions
  • Acknowledgments
  • References Cited
• Introductory Remarks for the First International Symposium on Volcanic Ash and Aviation Safety; Seattle, Washington, July 1991 -- Donald D. Engen
• Technical Reports
  • Volcanoes and Ash Clouds
  • Damage and Impacts
  • Commuications and Procedures
  • Meteorology and Ash-Cloud Monitoring
  • Detection and Tracking
• Selected Glossary of Volcanology and Meteorology
• List of Selected Acronyms
• Authors' Address List

Volcanoes and Ash Clouds

• Volcanoes and Aviation Safety in Costa Rica
  -- Jorge Barquero

• A Method for Characterizing Volcanic Ash from the December 15, 1989, Eruption of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska
  -- Gregory K. Bayhurst, Kenneth H. Wohletz, and Allen S. Mason

• The Concentration of Ash in Volcanic Plumes, Inferred from Dispersal Data
  -- Marcus I. Bursik, R.S.J. Sparks, Steven N. Carey, and Jennie S. Gilbert

• Electrical Phenomena in Volcanic Plumes
  -- Jennie S. Gilbert and Stephen J. Lane

• Volcanic Ash: What It Is and How It Forms
  -- Grant Heiken

• Volcanism in the Canadian Cordillera: Canada's Hazard Response Preparedness
  -- Catherine J. Hickson

• Volcanic Ash in Kamchatka as a Source of Potential Hazard to Air Traffic
  -- Vladimir Yu. Kirianov

• Ash Clouds: Characteristics of Eruption Columns
  -- Stephen Self and George P.L. Walker

• Volcanoes: Their Occurrence and Geography
  -- Tom Simkin

• The Controls of Eruption-Column Dynamics on the Injection and Mass Loading of Ash into the Atmosphere
  -- R.S.J. Sparks, Marcus I. Bursik, Steven N. Carey, Andrew W. Woods, and Jennie S. Gilbert

• Melting Properties of Volcanic Ash
  -- Samuel E. Swanson and James E. Beget

• Ash-Fall Deposits from large-Scale Phreatomagmatic Volcanism: Limitations of Available Eruption-Column Models
  -- Colin J.N. Wilson

• The Injection of Volcanic Ash into the Atmosphere
  -- Andrew W. Woods and Juergen Kienle

Damage and Impacts

• Influence of Volcanic Ash Clouds on Gas Turbine Engines
  -- Michael G. Dunn and Douglas P. Wade

• Volcanic Ash-Aircraft Incidents in Alaska Prior to the Redoubt Eruption on December 15, 1989
  -- Juergen Kienle

• Mitigation of Volcanic Ash Effects on Aircraft Operating and Support Systems
  -- J.R> Labadie

• Impact of Volcanic Ash from 15 December 1989 Redoubt Volcano on GE CF6-80C2 Turbofan Engines
  -- Zygmunt J. Przedpelski and Thomas J. Casadevall

• Economic Disruptions by Redoubt Volcano: Assessment Methodology and Anecdotal Empirical Evidence
  -- Bradford H. Tuck and Lee Huskey

• Effects of Volcanic Ash on Aircraft Powerplants and Airframes
  -- Lester M. Zinser

Communications and Procedures

• AIA Recommendations Aimed at Increased Safety and Reduced Disruption of Aircraft Operations in Regions with Volcanic Activity
  -- AIA Propulsion Committee 334-1, Zygmunt J. Przedpelski, Chairman

• Recommended Flight-Crew Procedures if Volcanic Ash is Encountered
  -- Ernest E. Campbell

• Development of a Real-Time ATC Volcanic Ash Advisory System Based on the Future Aviation Weather System
  -- James E. Evans

• Warning Systems and Pilot Actions
  -- Peter M. Foreman

• Volcanic Ash -- The International Regulatory Aspects
  -- Tom Fox

• Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center Response to Eruptions of Mount St. Helens
  -- Robert F. Hamley and Donald H. Parkinson

• An Automated Volcanic Ash Warning System
  -- David M. Harris

• Aviation Safety and Volcanic Ash Clouds in the Indonesian-Australia Region
  -- R. Wally Johnson and Thomas J. Casadevall

• The Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Network: Facilitating Communication of Volcanic-Eruption Information
  -- Lindsay McClelland

• Volcanic Ash and Aircraft Operations
  -- Edward Miller

• Volcanic Event Notification at Mount St. Helens
  -- Bobbie Myers and George J. Theisen

• Aviation Safety Measures for Ash Clouds in Japan and the System of Japan Air Lines for Monitoring Eruptions at Sakurajima Volcano
  -- Saburo Onodera and Kosuke Kamo

• Volcanic Ash Warnings in the Australian Region
  -- Rodney J. Potts and Frank Whitby

• Ash Cloud Aviation Advisories
  -- Thomas J. Sullivan and James S. Ellis

Meteorology and Ash-Cloud Monitoring

• Alaska Volcano-Debris-Monitoring System: New Technologies to Support Forecasting Volcanic-Plume Movement
  -- Gary L. Hufford

• A Statistical Approach to the Assessment of Volcanic Hazard for Air Traffic: Application to Vesuvius, Italy
  -- Giovanni Macedonio, P. Papale, M. Teresa Pareschi, Mauro Rosi, and Roberto Santacroce

• Using a Personal Computer to Obtain Predicted Plume Trajectories During the 1989-90 Eruption of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska
  -- Thomas L. Murray, Craig I. Bauer, and John F. Paskievitch

• Volcanic Eruptions and Atmospheric Temperature
  -- Reginald E. Newell and Zhong Xiang Wu

• A Mesoscale Data Assimilation System Adapted for Trajectory Calculations Over Alaska
  -- Thomas W. Schlatter and Stanley G. Benjamin

• Modeling Volcanic Ash Transport and Dispersion
  -- Barbara J.B. Stunder and Jerome L. Heffter

• Development of a Prediction Scheme for Volcanic Ash Fall from Redoubt Volcano, Alaska
  -- Hiroshi L. Tanaka

• The Aeronautical Volcanic Ash Problem
  -- Jerald Uecker

• Defining a Keep-Out Region for Aircraft After a Volcanic Eruption
  -- Peter L. Versteegen, Douglas D. D'Autrechy, Michael C. Monteith, and Charles R. Gallaway

Detection and Tracking

• Detection and Discrimination of Volcanic Ash Clouds by Infrared Radiometry -- I: Theory
  -- Alfred J. Prata and Ian J. Barton

• Detection and Discrimination of Volcanic Ash Clouds by Infrared Radiometry -- II: Experimental
  -- Ian J. Barton and Alfred J. Prata

• Satellite Monitoring of Volcanoes Using Argos
  -- J.P. Cauzac, Christian Ortega, and Laurel Muehlhausen

• Current and Future Capabilities in Forecasting the Trajectories, Transport, and Dispersion of Volcanic Ash Clouds at the Canadian Meteorological Centre
  -- Real D'Amours

• An Aircraft Encounter with a Redoubt Ash Cloud (A Satellite View)
  -- Kenneson G. Dean, Lawrence Whiting, and Haitao Jiao

• GEO-TOMS: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer for Ozone and Sulfur-Dioxide Monitoring from a Geostationary Satellite
  -- Ulli G. Hartmann, Robert H. Hertel, Herbert A. Roeder, and J. Owen Maloy

• Passive, Two-Channel, Thermal-Infrared Imageing Systems for Discrimination of Volcanic Ash Clouds
  -- Frank R. Honey

• Seismic Identification of Gas-and-Ash Explosions at Mount St. Helens -- Capabilities, Limitations, and Regional Application
  -- Chris Jonientz-Trisler, Bobbie Myers, and John A. Power

• Infrasonic and Seismic Detection of Explosive Eruptions at Sakurajima Volcano, Japan, and the PEGASAS-VE Early-Warning System
  -- Kosuke Kamo, Kazuhiro Ishihara, and Makoto Tahira

• Volcanic Hazard Detection with the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)
  -- Arlin J. Krueger, Scott R. Doiron, Gregg S.J. Bluth, Louis S. Walter, and Charles C. Schnetzler

• Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions Using NOAA Satellites
  -- Michael Matson, James S. Lynch, and George Stephens

• Volcanic Tremor Amplitude Correlated with Eruptions Explosivity and its Potential Use in Determining Ash Hazards to Aviation
  -- Steven R. McNutt

• Airborne Radar Detection of Volcanic Ash
  -- Mark E. Musolf

• Radar Remote Sensing of Volcanic Clouds
  -- William I. Rose and Alexander B. Kostinski

• Tracking of Regional Volcanic Ash Clouds by Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (GMS)
  -- Yosihiro Sawada

• Observations of the 1989-1990 Redoubt Volcano Eruptions Clouds Using AVHRR Satellite Imagery
  -- David J. Schneider and William I. Rose

• Application of Contemporary Ground-Based and Airborne Radar for the Observation of Volcanic Ash
  -- Melvin L. Stone

• The Potential for Using GPS for Volcano Monitoring
  -- Frank H. Webb and Marcus I. Bursik

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