These data files contain short periods of electrical data recorded at Stromboli volcano, Italy, in 2019 and 2020 using a prototype version of the Biral Thunderstorm Detector BTD-200. This sensor consists of two antennas, the primary and secondary antenna, which detect slow variations in the electrostatic field resulting from charge neutralisation due to electrical discharges.
The sensor recorded at three different locations: BTD1 (38.79551°N, 15.21518°E), BTD2 (38.80738°N, 15.21355°E) and BTD3 (38.79668°N, 15.21622°E).
Electrical data of the following explosions is provided (each in a separate data file):
- Three Strombolian explosions on 12 June 2019 at 12:46:53, 12:49:27 and 12:56:10 UTC, respectively.
- A major explosion on 25 June 2019 at 23:03:08 UTC.
- A major explosion on 19 July 2020 at 03:00:42 UTC.
- A major explosion on 16 November 2020 at 09:17:45 UTC.
- A paroxysmal event at 3 July 2019 at 14:45:43 UTC.
Each filename indicates the location of the BTD, the starting date and time of the file in UTC, and a short description of the three data columns inside the file (unixtime, primary, secondary). The first column provides the Unix timestamp of each data point, which is the time in seconds since 01/01/1970. All time is provided in UTC. The second column provides the measured voltage [V] recorded by the primary antenna. The third column provides the measured voltage [V] recorded by the secondary antenna.
Data supporting the publication Hornby, AJ, Kueppers U, Maurer BM, Poetsch C and Dingwell DB (2020) "Experimental constraints on volcanic ash generation and clast morphometrics in pyroclastic density currents and granular flows". In this study, fine ash is generated from lapilli-sized volcanic pumice and scoria in rotary tumbler experiments. We seek to explore ash production processes and clast attrition in natural PDCs, and gain insight into the controlling parameters for particle production efficiency with PDC transport distance. We vary the starting mass, apparatus size, and material properties and tumble clasts over multiple transport distance steps from 0.2-6 km.
The data are provided in ASCII or image formats as one zipped folder (2020-025_Hornby-et-al_data.zip) and organised in the following sub-folder structure (for more information please consult the associated data description and Hornby et al (2020):
(1) Experimental methods, apparatus and data collections
(2) Ash generation data for tumbling experiments
(3) Laser particle size distribution data for ash generated in tumbling experiments
(4) Post-experimental lapilli size (generated via 3-axis caliper measurements), mass, bulk density and dense rock equivalent (DRE) porosity results
(5) 2D image analysis morphology results
(6) 2D image analysis size results
(7) Cropped, scaled and thresholded images lapilli used for morphometric analysis
(8) Image analysis macros and workflow for ImageJ
(9) Integrated analysis of results
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
This data repository contains electrical and seismic tremor measurements, thermal infrared imagery, atmospheric conditions and information on plume heights that were recorded and collected during the 2021 Tajogaite eruption on La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. The 2021 Tajogaite eruption lasted from 19 September until 13 December 2021. The "data description" file provides more detailed information on each dataset and the way the data is formatted.
The electrical data was recorded using a Biral Thunderstorm Detector BTD-200. This sensor was installed at two consecutive locations: BTD1 (28.635°N, 17.876389°W) recorded from 11-26 October 2021 and BTD2 (28.602365°N, 17.880475°W) recorded from 27 October 2021 until the end of the eruption.
The volcanic tremor measurements were recorded at seismic station PLPI (28.5722°N, 17.8654°W), which was operated by the Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias. Here we provide the seismic tremor amplitudes within the Very Long Period (0.4-0.6 Hz) and the Long Period (1-5 Hz) frequency bands between 10 September and 20 December 2021.
Thermal infrared videography of the explosive volcanic activity was done using an InfraTec HD thermal infrared (TIR) video camera. This camera was installed in El Paso (28.649361°N, 17.882279°W) and recorded almost continuously between 3-8 November 2021. Here we provide individual thermal infrared frames.
Atmospheric conditions were obtained from weather balloon measurements at Güímar (station nr. 60018) on Tenerife, which were provided by the University of Wyoming, Department of Atmospheric Science (http://weather.uwyo.edu/). In addition, atmospheric data was collected from ground-based weather stations at El Paso and Roque de los Muchachos, which were operated by the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) of Spain on La Palma.
Information on the volcanic plume heights was obtained from both the Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (https://vaac.meteo.fr/volcanoes/la-palma/) as well as the Plan de Emergencias Volcánicas de Canarias.