Risk evaluation, detection and simulation during effusive eruption disasters

• DOI: 10.1144/sp426.29
• Publication Date: 2016-03-31T01:23:18Z
• Authors: Andrew Harris; Tom De Groeve; Simon Carn; Fanny Garel
• Keywords: [SDE.MCG] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; 550; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; [SDU.STU.VO] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Volcanology; [SDU.STU.VO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Volcanology; 01 natural sciences; 0105 earth and related environmental sciences

Abstract Lava ingress into a vulnerable population will be difficult to control, so that evacuation will be necessary for communities in the path of the active lava, followed by post-event population, infrastructural, societal and community replacement and/or relocation. There is a pressing need to set up a response chain that bridges scientists and responders during an effusive crisis to allow near-real-time delivery of globally standard ‘products’ for a timely and adequate humanitarian response. In this chain, the scientific research groups investigating lava remote-sensing and modelling need to provide products that are both useful to, and trusted by, the crisis response community. Requirements for these products include (a) formats that can be immediately integrated into a crisis management procedure, and (b) in an agreed and stable standard. A review of current capability reveals that we are at a point where the community can provide such a response, as is the aim of the RED SEED (Risk Evaluation, Detection and Simulation during Effusive Eruption Disasters) working group. This book is the first production of this group and is intended not only as a directory of current capabilities and operational service providers, but also as a statement of intent and need, while providing a simulation designed to demonstrate how a truly pan-disciplinary response to an effusive crisis could work.