Early Detection of Explosive Volcanic Eruptions Using VHF Radiation from Vent Discharges

Sonja A Behnke1, Harald E Edens2, Seda Senay3, Jeffrey Bruce Johnson4, Kenneth Eack1, Michael Caffrey1, James P Theiler1, Alexa R Van Eaton5, David J Schneider6, Masato Iguchi7 and Daisuke Miki7, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Department of Physics and Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, NM, United States, (3)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Electrical Engineering, Socorro, NM, United States, (4)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (5)USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA, United States, (6)USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory, Anchorage, AK, United States, (7)Kyoto University, Sakurajima Volcano Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kagoshima, Japan