WOVOdat – the global volcano unrest database aimed at improving eruption forecasts

What is it about?

WOVOdat is a unique online database that hosts multi-parameter monitoring data sets from unrest and eruption episodes of volcanoes worldwide. It provides online tools (wovodat.org) that allows interactive data visualization, searches and analysis. With this tools, users can compare unrest between volcanoes and eruption styles, which is useful during volcanic crises, as well as to perform basic research on pre-eruption processes, teaching, and outreach. WOVOdat will be to volcanology as an epidemiological database is to medicine.

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