Ash Temperature variations on Mount Wrangell, Alaska
- 1 August 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
- Vol. 11 (3) , 781-786
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.1968.10420284
Abstract
Rapid large scale temperature variations, up to 40°C within 24 hours, have been observed under the floor of a volcanically heated building on Mount Wrangell, Alaska. The temperature increases correlate well with decreases in barometric pressure. A mechanism explaining this relationship is based on Elder's steaming ground model. A decrease in barometric pressure increases the vapour pressure gradient in the soil above the water table. This increases the vapour flux which in turn increases the heat flux.Keywords
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