S44B:
Infrasonic and Seismoacoustic Analysis for Global Security I


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Session ID#: 58817

Session Description:
Infrasonic and atmospheric acoustic signals have been increasingly utilized for national and global security applications including detonation detection, nuclear forensics, and a number of other topics as both a stand-alone capability and a supplement to seismic, hydroacoustic, and other phenomenologies. The models describing seismoacoustic sources and propagation effects have been steadily advancing so that infrasonic signatures can be more easily leveraged for analysis. We invite submissions detailing infrasound, seismoacoustic, and other multiphenomenological research relevant to explosion monitoring, nuclear forensics, and other global security topics. Submissions detailing civil and scientific applications of data from the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty’s International Monitoring System that help improve knowledge of the technologies and hence advance the verification regime are also of interest. Presentations detailing existing and emerging source and propagation models as well as relevant signal analysis techniques and instrumentation are welcome.
Primary Convener:  Omar E Marcillo, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Philip S. Blom, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Pierrick Mialle, CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Vienna, Austria and Brian William Stump, Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, United States
Primary Liaison:  Philip S. Blom, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Chairs:  Pierrick Mialle, CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Vienna, Austria and Philip S. Blom, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Brian William Stump, Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, United States
Index Terms:

0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
7219 Seismic monitoring and test-ban treaty verification [SEISMOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Acoustic point-source representation for vertical ground motions induced by buried explosions (Invited) (416480)
Keehoon Kim, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Geophysical Monitoring Program, Livermore, CA, United States, Andrea Chiang, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, Sean Ricardo Ford, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Daniel Bowman, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Infrasound Propagation in Tropospheric Ducts (Invited) (454166)
Roger Waxler1, Maxwell Willis2, Claus H Hetzer1 and Carrick L Talmadge1, (1)The University of Mississippi, National Center for Physical Acoustics, Oxford, MS, United States, (2)University of Mississippi, NCPA, University, MS, United States
Infrasound Signals from the 2017 North Korean Underground Nuclear Explosion and the Subsequent Collapse Event (411977)
Brian William Stump1, Junghyun Park2, Chris Hayward1, Il-Young Che3, Jelle D Assink4, Läslo G Evers5 and Pieter S.M. Smets5, (1)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, United States, (2)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, TX, United States, (3)Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Earthquake Research Center, Daejeon, South Korea, (4)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, R&D Seismology and Acoustics, De Bilt, 3730, Netherlands, (5)Delft University of Technology, Geoscience and Engineering, Delft, Netherlands
Infrasonic and Seismoacoustic Waves emitted from the 2017 DPRK Underground Nuclear Test (389777)
Christoph Pilger, BGR - Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany and Karl Koch, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Leobendorf, Austria
Optimizing Sensor Placement for Nuclear Forensics with Multiple Data Types (466489)
Delaine T. Reiter1, William L Rodi2, Aaron N Ferris1, Roger Waxler3 and Claus H Hetzer3, (1)Weston Geophysical Corporation Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States, (2)Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)The University of Mississippi, National Center for Physical Acoustics, Oxford, MS, United States
Signature Analysis and Propagation Modeling of Supersonic Sources (357035)
David Norris1, Michael Antolik2, Justin Tyler Hertzog1 and Susan Nava1, (1)ENSCO, Inc. Melbourne, Melbourne, FL, United States, (2)ENSCO, Inc. Melbourne, Melbourne, United States
Monitoring the Ocean by High-fidelity Sound Propagation Modelling Using Airgun Shots Ground-Truth Locations. (388860)
Ronan J Le Bras, CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria, Peter Nielsen, CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Vienna, Austria and Albert Brouwer, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

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