WOVOdat is a comprehensive global database
on volcanic unrest aimed at understanding pre-eruptive processes and
improving eruption forecasts. WOVOdat is brought to you by WOVO (World
Organization of Volcano Observatories) and presently hosted at the Earth
Observatory of Singapore.
A lack of standardization in data formats and database
architectures has made it nearly impossible to do comparative studies of
volcanic unrest, or to search data for analogues to any current unrest.
WOVOdat fills this gap by translating and compiling this myriad of data
into common formats with the goal to make them freely web-accessible,
for reference during volcanic crises, comparative studies, and basic
research on pre-eruptive processes.
Using WOVOdat, scientists wishing to study how volcanoes prepare to
erupt will be able to find a wealth of historical data at their
fingertips. Scientists needing to forecast the outcome of a fresh
volcanic crisis will be able to search for analogues, find the past
outcomes, and estimate (changing) probabilities of how the fresh unrest
will evolve.
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