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Wind rose plots for the volcano: 285040 Shikotsu

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1990-01-01
End Date
2009-12-28

Citation

Mastin, L.G., 2017, Plots of Wind Patterns of the World's Volcanoes: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7SQ8XKT.

Summary

This zip folder contains ASCII text files of vectors at the specified volcano at 12-hour intervals, from January 1, 1990 through December 28, 2009. The wind vectors are divided into five files, names by their elevation range above sea level in the atmosphere: 00-05km.txt; 05-11km.txt; 11-16km.txt; 16-24km.txt; and 24-30km.txt. The zip folder also contains a subfolder "figures", with Wind rose plots of wind direction and speed over this time period. The plots are by season, and by elevation, given a total of 20 plots (4 seasons, 5 elevation ranges). A summary plot is also included which gives the year-round wind pattern at the volcano, at 0-5 km elevation. Plots are in both jpg and pdf format.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Larry G. Mastin
Originator :
Larry G. Mastin
Metadata Contact :
Larry Mastin
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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WindRosePlot_metadata_285040_Shikotsu.xml
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285040_Shikotsu.zip 3.46 MB application/zip
WindRosePlot_summary_285040_Shikotsu.jpg thumbnail 58.81 KB image/jpeg

Purpose

Data are intended to be used as a reference for volcanoes that are threatening to erupt, as an indicator of areas that could be at risk from tephra fall during a future eruption.
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