NH21C:
Seismology without Seismometers: Ionospheric Monitoring of Natural Hazards of Earth, Ocean, and Atmosphere I Posters


Session ID#: 7488

Session Description:
Natural hazards, including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis have been significant threats to humans throughout recorded history. There is a wealth of new data on the atmospheric and ionospheric disturbances caused by natural and anthropogenic sources. These provide new scientific insight into the geophysical source phenomenology, wave propagation physics, and multi-medium coupling processes involved.

We solicit observational, theoretical and modeling contributions that specifically address the societal benefits that can be realized through the routine monitoring of atmospheric and ionospheric disturbances. Innovative concepts for the monitoring of seismic and tsunami hazards that make use of Earth to ionosphere coupling mechanisms via acoustic gravity waves are particularly welcome.

Precursory signals and perturbations consecutive to recent earthquakes are also pertinent. With improved knowledge of the various geophysical processes involved, these means have the potential to enhance natural hazards warning systems in order to save human life and mitigate economic damage.
Primary Convener:  Attila Komjathy, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Elvira Astafyeva, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, Scott Alan Budzien, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and Lucie Rolland, GeoAzur, Valbonne, France
Chairs:  Attila Komjathy, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Lucie Rolland, GeoAzur, Valbonne, France
OSPA Liaison:  Esayas B Shume, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • G - Geodesy
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

4341 Early warning systems [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6934 Ionospheric propagation [RADIO SCIENCE]
6969 Remote sensing [RADIO SCIENCE]
7223 Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction [SEISMOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Diffraction and Dissipation of Atmospheric Waves in the Vicinity of Caustics (63891)
Oleg A Godin, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Internal Gravity Wave Induced by the Queen Charlotte Event (27 October 2012, Mw 7.8): Airglow Observation and Modeling. (64936)
Aurélien Bablet, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, Giovanni Occhipinti, Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France and Jonathan J Makela, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Seismo-traveling ionospheric disturbances of earthquake and tsunami waves observed by space- and ground-based GPS receivers (84944)
Jann-Yenq G Liu1, Chao-Yen Chen1 and Charles Lin2, (1)NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Jhongli, Taiwan, (2)National Cheng Kung University, Department of Earth Sciences, Tainan, Taiwan
High-Altitude Responses to Tsunami Forcing: 1. Modeling the Thermospheric Response in the Presence of Tidal Winds (80671)
Brian Laughman1, David C Fritts1 and Thomas Lund2, (1)GATS, Inc., Newport News, VA, United States, (2)NorthWest Research Associates Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
High-altitude responses to tsunami forcing: 2. Response of the ionosphere to gravity waves (67443)
Jonathan Krall1, Joseph Huba2, Douglas Patrick Drob3 and Tsai-Wei Wu1, (1)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (2)US Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Naval Research Lab, Washington, United States
Three-Dimensional Propagation of Tsunami-Generated Internal Waves in the Atmosphere (74908)
Yue Wu1, Stefan G Llewellyn Smith2, James W Rottman2, Dave Broutman3 and Jean-Bernard Honore Minster4, (1)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Computational Physics Inc. Springfield, Springfield, VA, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Virtual array beamforming of GPS TEC observations of co-seismic ionospheric disturbances near the Geomagnetic South Pole triggered by teleseismic megathrusts (68701)
Demian Gomez1, Robert Smalley Jr2, Charles A Langston3, Terry J Wilson4, Michael G Bevis1, Ian W D Dalziel5, Eric C Kendrick1, Stephanie Ann Konfal4, Michael J Willis6, Diego A Piñón7, Sergio Cimbaro8 and Dana J Caccamise II9,10, (1)Ohio State University, Columbus, United States, (2)University of Memphis, Center for Earthquake Research and Information, Memphis, TN, United States, (3)University of Memphis, Center for Earthquake Research and Information, Memphis, United States, (4)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (5)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (6)University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES and Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Dirección de Geodesia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (8)Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (9)The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, (10)NOAA National Geodetic Survey, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Ionospheric F2 region perturbed by the 25 April 2015 Nepal earthquake (66777)
Yang-Yi Sun1, Jann-Yenq G Liu2, Chi- Yen Lin3, Ho-Fang Tsai4, Loren C Chang3, Chao-Yen Chen3 and Chia-Hung Chen5, (1)China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Wuhan, China, (2)NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Jhongli, Taiwan, (3)Institute of Space Science National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan, (4)National Cheng Kung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, (5)National Cheng Kung University, Department of Earth Sciences, Tainan, Taiwan
Ionospheric Signatures of the Earthquake in South Korea on 31 March 2014 (71238)
Moonseok Yoon1, Pil Hun Choi1, Yu-Ming Yang2, Jiyun Lee1 and Attila Komjathy2, (1)KAIST Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
A Statistical Study on VLF Subionospheric Perturbations Associated with Major Earthquakes: A View from Focal Mechanism (78785)
Tomoki Kawano, Kenshin Tatsuta and Yasuhide Hobara, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
Backprojection of GNSS total-electron content signals for recent large earthquakes (81509)
Dylan Mikesell, Boise State University, Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Lucie Rolland, OCA - Géoazur - Université Côte d'Azur, Valbonne, France, Matthew M Haney, Alaska Volcano Observatory Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-17, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Rebekah Lee, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
Observations of Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs) Over the United States Associated With the Tsunami Generated by the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake (67575)
Timothy Matthew Duly, Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, Irfan Azeem, NOAA NESDIS, Silver Spring, United States, Geoff Crowley, Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates, LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, Sharon Vadas, NorthWest Research Associates Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Jonathan J Makela, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States and Adam Reynolds, Orion Space Solutions, Louisville, United States
Invesion of tsunami height using GPS TEC data. The case of the 2012 Haida Gwaii tsunami and Earthquake. (79813)
Virgile Rakoto, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, Philippe Henri Lognonné, Université Paris Cité, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France and Lucie Rolland, GeoAzur, Valbonne, France
Study of Seismic Activity Using Geophysical and Radio Physical Equipment for Observation (77627)
Nino Kvavadze, Tbilisi State University Geophysics Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia and Nino Sidamon Tsereteli, Institute of Geophysics of Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia; Institute of Geophysics of javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
GNSS-TEC observations of the atmospheric resonance excited by the 2015 April Plinian eruptions of the Calbuco volcano, Chile: Comparison with the 2014 Kelud eruption (72503)
Yuki Nakashima, Hokkaido University, Institute of Seismology and Volcanology, Sapporo, Japan and Kosuke Heki, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
GNSS-monitoring of Natural Hazards: Ionospheric Detection of Earthquakes and Volcano Eruptions (73040)
Ksenia Shults1, Elvira Astafyeva1 and Philippe Henri Lognonné2, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (2)Université Paris Cité, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France
A Statistical Correlation Between Low L-shell Electrons Measured by NOAA Satellites and Strong Earthquakes (78324)
Cristiano Fidani, Sara Electronic Instruments S.R.L., Perugia, Italy
Atmospheric Anomalies prior to the Nepal Earthquake in April 2015 (79383)
Sheetal Piyush Karia and Kamlesh N. Pathak, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Institute of Technology, Surat, India
A Statistical Study of Total Electron Content Changes in the Ionosphere Prior to Earthquake Occurrences (64282)
Jeremy N Thomas, DigiPen Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Redmond, WA, United States, Jimi Huard, DigiPen Institute of Technology, Redmond, WA, United States and Fabrizio Masci, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, L'Aquila, Italy
GPS Technologies as a Tool to Detect the Pre-Earthquake Signals Associated with Strong Earthquakes (70485)
Sergey A Pulinets1,2, Andrzej Krankowski3, Manuel Hernandez-Pajares4, Jann-Yenq G Liu5, Katsumi Hattori6, Dmitry Davidenko1 and Dimitar Ouzounov7, (1)Space Research Institute (IKI), Moscow, Russia, (2)University of Warmia and Mazury, Space Radio Diagnostic Research Center, Olsztyn, Poland, (3)University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Space Radio-Diagnostics Research Centre, Olsztyn, Poland, (4)UPC - CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (5)NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Jhongli, Taiwan, (6)Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, (7)American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

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