PyVOLCANS: A Python package to flexibly explore similarities and differences between volcanic systems

Pablo Tierz,Susan Loughlin,Vyron Christodoulou,John Stevenson

doi:10.21105/joss.03649

Abstract

Tierz et al., (2021). PyVOLCANS: A Python package to flexibly explore similarities and differences between volcanic systems. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(68), 3649, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03649

Highlights

There are over 1,400 volcanoes on Earth that have either erupted or shown signs of volcanic activity in, approximately, the last 12,000 years
Around 40-50 are erupting at any given time (Global Volcanism Program, 2013; Siebert et al, 2010)
In order to understand and quantify volcanic hazard, volcano scientists are faced with many questions

Summary

Introduction

There are over 1,400 volcanoes on Earth that have either erupted or shown signs of volcanic activity (e.g. fumaroles or hot springs) in, approximately, the last 12,000 years. One possible mitigation to the issue of data scarcity in volcanology and volcanic hazard assessment is the use of analogue volcanoes (Newhall et al, 2017; Newhall & Hoblitt, 2002).

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