Journal
EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE
Volume 63, Issue 7, Pages 847-851Publisher
TERRA SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.06.051
Keywords
Internal gravity waves; tsunami; airglow; numerical modeling
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- CNES
- PNTS/INSU
- French Space Agency CNES
- Unite States Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global [IONONAMI-N07-25]
- United States Office of Naval Research (ONR) [N00014-09-1-0439]
- National Science Foundation [ATM 06-44654 CAR]
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The tremendous tsunami following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake produced internal gravity waves (IGWs) in the neutral atmosphere and large disturbances in the overlying ionospheric plasma while propagating through the Pacific ocean. To corroborate the tsunamigenic hypothesis of these perturbations, we use a 3D numerical modeling of the ocean-atmosphere coupling, to reproduce the tsunami signature observed in the airglow by the imager located in Hawaii and clearly showing the shape of the modeled IGW. The agreement between data and synthetics not only supports the interpretation of the tsunami-related-IGW behavior, but strongly shows that atmospheric and ionospheric remote sensing can provide new tools for oceanic monitoring and tsunami detection.
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