Sentences with phrase «for volcanic eruptions»

Most standard Trip Cancellation policies include coverage for volcanic eruptions that prevent travel.

The difference between 0.5 to 0.6 and 0.84 may be largely due to GCMs often exhibiting too strong a response to volcanic aerosols and / or a tendency for volcanic eruptions to be closely followed by El Nino events.

The system does the same for volcanic eruptions, for it reveals that volcanoes heave and sag over many centimetres as the molten rock deep below swells and shrinks.

• a range of scenarios for volcanic eruptions (the models assume that the volcanic activity will be comparable to the 20th century, which had much lower volcanic activity than the 19th century)

Wikipedia says the Eyjafjallajökull eruption was relatively small for volcanic eruptions.

They show no trends in atmospheric transmission except for volcanic eruptions.

[Response: As explained in the paper, it doesn't happen just for volcanic eruptions, but for any temperature excursion of more than about 1C relative to the reference period baseline.

It is anticipated that the computational approach developed in this study can also provide important insights on the role of magma degassing as a potential trigger for volcanic eruptions.

«Creating a stopwatch for volcanic eruptions: Potential for future eruptions at Yellowstone volcano.»

«Improving how we anticipate activity using new technology such as this is an important first step in doing better at forecasting and preparing for volcanic eruptions,» said STREVA Principal Investigator, Dr Jenni Barclay.

In a new study published Wednesday in Frontiers in Earth Science, the Savoy researchers applied data assimilation to a volcano model to see if the technique could accurately predict an important parameter for volcanic eruptions: magma overpressure.

Their study also did not incorporate other important predictors for volcanic eruptions such as earthquakes and gas output — although the researchers plan to include these measurements in future studies.

Surely, they could've spent an extra hundred million for a volcanic eruption sequence where Christian and Anastasia get buried in molten lava while playing with vibrators in their torture room.

I also found a paper analyzing sulfate from a different Greenland ice core for volcanic eruption signals: http://epic.awi.de/Publications/Big2001a.pdf

Expensive trips should be covered with «cancel for any reason» if you're worried about the potential for a volcanic eruption that might cause you to cancel.

«It's too late to purchase new coverage for this volcanic eruption, as it is now considered a foreseen event,» said Squaremouth Zero Complaint Manager Brandi Morse.

Travel Delay coverage for Natural Disasters: In order for a volcanic eruption to be covered under the Trip Delay benefit within Tin Leg policies, it must meet the following requirements for minimum length of delay:

Not exact matches

W. H. Bramble Airport, named for William Henry Bramble, chief minister of Montserrat, was the only way of flying to and from the Caribbean island until it was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 1997.

Some of the more extreme forecasts made for this time period include alien visitations / invasions, catastrophic asteroid impacts, violent volcanic eruptions and massive earthquakes.

Ditto for some vary large volcanic eruptions or a nuclear war.

If you are the target of parental abuse, you're probably living in fear every day of what your teen will do next, always waiting for what will set off a volcanic eruption.

Clinton, N.Y. >> Samples of Hawaii's destructive lava have been analyzed in the Hamilton Analytical Laboratory for the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) scientists to better understand the on - going volcanic eruption.

The second event was a paper published by Cole - Dai and two colleagues titled «Ice Core Evidence for an Explosive Tropical Volcanic Eruption 6 Years Preceding Tambora.»

For example, Central Anatolia is described as an elevated, dry, cold plain of Lycaonia in Strabo's Geographika in 7 BC, and even cave paintings in the region dating to approximately 7000 BC record active volcanic eruptions on the plateau.»

Now, research suggests that for the past decade, such stratospheric aerosols — injected into the atmosphere by either recent volcanic eruptions or human activities such as coal burning — are slowing down global warming.

They can be as small as a grain of salt, but tiny crystals that form deep in volcanoes may be the key for advance warnings before volcanic eruptions.

When scientists use climate models for attribution studies, they first run simulations with estimates of only «natural» climate influences over the past 100 years, such as changes in solar output and major volcanic eruptions.

Along with three colleagues, Kendon runs an intensive care unit for orchids, ferns and other shrubs threatened by deforestation, climate change, over-zealous collectors and volcanic eruptions.

That could be significant for life, because the cycling of elements into Earth's crust and out of volcanic eruptions helps keep our planet habitable by stabilizing atmospheric temperature.

Scientists, meteorological institutes, and aviation authorities had long recognized the hazards posed by Iceland's volcanoes; the London Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (London VAAC) had been simulating the spread of ash from a hypothetical eruption of Eyjafjallajökull's neighboring Katla volcano for several years.

Jacob Lowenstern, a geologist for the USGS Yellowstone Volcano Observatory who is based in Menlo Park, California, analyzes gases in recent volcanic rocks to help predict volcanic eruptions.

After large volcanic eruptions that pump sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, such as that of mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991, the planet cools for a year or two.

Any forceful disturbance — an earthquake or a volcanic eruption, for instance — could have disrupted the pressurized gas.

If mimicking a massive volcanic eruption by spraying sulfur dioxide into the air or flying thousands of mirrors into space to shade Earth to halt climate change doesn't cut it for you, how about this?

The drill's filters, which clean water being pumped out of the borehole, became clogged with black dust — «volcanic ashes from some past large volcanic eruption,» speculated Slawek Tulaczyk, a glaciologist from the University of California, Santa Cruz, who has studied this region for two decades and co-leads the drilling project.

To determine whether declining pollutants deserve credit for the recovery, the researchers used a 3D atmospheric model to separate the effects of the chemicals from those of weather, which can affect ozone loss through winds and temperature, and volcanic eruptions, which deplete ozone by pumping sulfate particles into the upper atmosphere.

Yesterday evening, IMO noted on its website that «there are no signs of ongoing volcanic activity,» but the alert will remain red for the time being because «an imminent eruption can not be excluded.»

«They have evacuated a lot of people from around the volcano, but volcanic unrest can persist for months or even decades without an eruption.»

Jones had the lightbulb moment for this idea when colleagues, including co-author Kevin Mahan, were describing xenoliths (pieces of crust ejected by volcanic eruptions) from across Wyoming and Montana.

Any volcano on land which was as lively as KeJ would be constantly monitored by satellites and an array of local instruments looking for the slightest change in behaviour that could precede a major volcanic eruption.

In addition to forecasting the weather, the authors hope that these insights will lead to improved models for global warming, ozone depletion and the effects of volcanic eruptions.

A dating technique has pinned down four volcanic eruptions that may have triggered the extinction event that cleared the way for dinosaurs to dominate Earth for the next 135 million years

Search and recovery efforts for at least two dozen victims of Japan's worst volcanic eruption in decades were called off on Tuesday due to worries about rising volcanic activity

REYKJAVIK (Reuters)- Iceland lowered its warning code for possible volcanic disruption to the aviation industry to orange from red on Sunday after further analysis of an apparent eruption under a glacier found there had been no eruption after all.

The team also showed for the first time that this recovery has slowed somewhat at times, due to the effects of volcanic eruptions from year to year.

First Vitruvius, an engineer for the Emperor Augustus, and later Pliny the Elder recorded that the best maritime concrete was made with ash from volcanic regions of the Gulf of Naples (Pliny died in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that buried Pompeii), especially from sites near today's seaside town of Pozzuoli.

For years most scientists have attributed this ominous event to atmospheric dust following a volcanic eruption.

Infrasound signals can remain strong as they travel over large distances, making them useful for pinpointing the location and size of events such as nuclear explosions, meteorite strikes, volcanic eruptions and sometimes earthquake ruptures.

But those rulers may have had more to blame than just bad luck: According to a new study, volcanic eruptions around the ancient world likely suppressed the Nile's annual floods — critical for agriculture — by altering rainfall upriver in the Ethiopian highlands several times from the third to first centuries B.C.E..

Seismic waves can be generated naturally, during earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, for example, or by artificial means such as explosions.