Table 8 Priors and posterior means and standard deviations from applying the algorithm to the 2011 Kirishima-Shinmoedake eruption tephra mass per unit area dataset. Priors of column height, total eruption mass, and median and standard deviation of grain size distribution are referenced and inferred from (Shimbori and Fukui 2012;Nakada et al. 2013;Miyabuchi et al. 2013;Maeno et al. 2014;White et al. 2017). Priors of α/β ratio, diffusion coefficient, fall time threshold, and pumice and lithic densities are specified as commonly adopted ranges or maximum ranges possible

From: Tephra deposit inversion by coupling Tephra2 with the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm: algorithm introduction and demonstration with synthetic datasets