Lambh: Volcanic dust in the atmosphere
Description
Importance to meteorology, principally the dust veils created in the atmosphere, particle sizes and distribution, heights, fall speeds and atmospheric residence times.source
Lamb, H. H. (1970). Volcanic dust in the atmosphere; with a chronological assessment of its meteorological significance. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 266, 425-527.Details
The DVI is an attempt to place a quantitative measure on the magnitude of volcanic eruptions and allows comparisons of volcanic eruptions by a single numerical index.