期刊
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 40, 期 19, 页码 5009-5013出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL057627
关键词
ionosphere; atmosphere; model; earthquake; wave; variation
资金
- MEXT in Japan [KAKENHI 23340144, 23340149]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23340149, 24740336] Funding Source: KAKEN
Unusual ionospheric variations were observed in the M9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake on 11 March 2011. Among various kinds of features in the ionosphere, significant depletion of total electron content (TEC) near the epicenter was observed after the earthquake. Although previous studies have suggested that the coseismic ionospheric variations are associated with atmospheric perturbation caused by vertical displacement of the sea surface, the mechanism of the TEC depletion has not been fully understood. In this paper, a two-dimensional nonlinear nonhydrostatic compressible atmosphere-ionosphere model is employed to investigate the ionospheric variations in the vicinity of the epicenter. The simulation results reveal that an impulsive pressure pulse produced by a sudden uplift of the sea surface leads to local atmospheric expansion in the thermosphere and that the expansion of the thermosphere combined with the effect of inclined magnetic field lines in the ionosphere causes the sudden TEC depletion above the epicenter region.
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