Thermal radiation effects in the atmosphere initiated by pre-earthquake processes
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Ouzounov, Dimitar; Pulinets, Sergey; Taylor, Patrick
- Source
- 2020 XXXIIIrd General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS), 2020 XXXIIIrd. :1-4 Aug, 2020
- Subject
- Aerospace
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Geoscience
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Earthquakes
Terrestrial atmosphere
Clouds
Transient analysis
Satellites
Earth
Ionization
- Language
- ISSN
- 2642-4339
The science community is still looking for pre-earthquake indicators of major seismic events in order to minimize the loss of human life. Recent advances in satellite technology have helped to increase the scientific understanding of the nature of pre-earthquake phenomena in the atmosphere and their relationship with transitional thermal anomalies. It was realized that the thermal heat fluxes over areas of earthquake preparation are a result of air ionization by Rn 222 , its isotopes and progenies and consequent water vapor condensation on newly formed ions. Latent heat (LH) is released as a result of this process and leads to the formation of local thermal radiation anomalies (TRA) known as outgoing longwave radiation (OLR). We recorded data from the most recent major earthquakes in California (2014) Nepal (2015) that allowed us to summaries TRA’s main morphological features. It was also established that the TRA is part of a more complex chain of the short - term earthquake precursors, which are explained within the framework of a Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (LAIC) model.