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November 3 IDR. To do: What we have, what we’d like to do Modeling Mathematical/numerical approaches What we need inside the codes Tasks. What we promised to do. Volcanic eruption column, plume advection and dispersion Where is the cloud likely to be # hours from now?
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November 3 IDR To do: What we have, what we’d like to do Modeling Mathematical/numerical approaches What we need inside the codes Tasks
What we promised to do • Volcanic eruption column, plume advection and dispersion • Where is the cloud likely to be # hours from now? • Quantifiable likelihoods and confidence intervals/error metrics
Sources of uncertainty • Volcanological: • Column height • Size distribution within column • Translates into • Vent radius • Eruption rate/mass flux • Particle size distribution
Sources of uncertainty • Meteorological: • Local windfield • Time evolution of windfield
Sources of uncertainty • Modeling/numerical: • What is the effective equation of XXX code (numerical diffusion) • How does code account for local windfield variability? • How accurate is XXXcode in horizontal/vertical directions?
Column modeling • Use a vent model (e.g. BENT) to replace column uncertainty with physical model and epistemicly uncertain parameters (radius, flux) • Reasonable distributions of parameters to characterize vent and exflux
Windfield modeling • Reconstructed windfields roughly known (known at a few points), but local uncertainty large. • Predictive modeling must characterize all the uncertainty in weather prediction in a few parameters
Under the hood • Inside XXXcode (WRF?) • Distributions for spatial fluctuations, temporal changes? • How to characterize the accuracy of the relatively sparse (compared to computational grid) windfield samples? • How is advection, diffusion computed?
Numerics • Characterize all sources of uncertainty • Remove uncertainty where possible, replace with physics (and physical model uncertainty) where possible • Distributions for uncertain parameters • Simulations for aleatoric uncertainty • Reconstruct output distributions
Numerics • Several approaches • Basic advection-diffusion equation, uncertain speed, boundary conditions. What is known? What is computed? • PCQ/gaussian sum marriage • Alternatives?
To do – short term • Advection-diffusion solver, analysis, simulation • WRF(?) details, pull source code apart • Column-WRF(?) marriage and characterize all the uncertain inputs required
AGU plans • ?