Probing signals of atmospheric gravity waves excited by the July 29,2021 M_(W)8.2 Alaska earthquake

It is commonly believed that the atmosphere is decoupled from the solid Earth.Thus,it is difficult for the seismic wave energy inside the Earth to propagate into the atmosphere,and atmospheric pressure wave signals excited by earthquakes are unlikely to exist in atmospheric observations.An increasing number of studies have shown that earthquakes,volcanoes,and tsunamis can perturb the Earth's atmosphere due to various coupling effects.However,the observations mainly focus on acoustic waves with periods of less than 10 min and inertial gravity waves with periods of greater than 1 h.There are almost no clear observations of gravity waves that coincide with observations of low-frequency signals of the Earth's free oscillation frequency band within 1 h.This paper investigates atmospheric gravity wave signals within1 h of surface-atmosphere observations using the periodogram method based on seismometer and microbarometer observations from the global seismic network before and after the July 29,2021 M_(w)8.2 Alaska earthquake in the United States.The numerical results show that the atmospheric gravity wave signals with frequencies similar to those of the Earth's free oscillations _(0)S_(2) and _(0)T_(2) can be detected in the microbaro meter observations.The results con firm the existence of atmospheric gravity waves,indicating that the atmosphere and the solid Earth are not decoupled within this frequency band and that seismic wave energy excited by earthquakes can propagate from the interior of the Earth to the atmosphere and enhance the atmospheric gravity wave signals within 1 h.

A class of coupled nonlinear Schrdinger equations:Painlev'e property,exact solutions,and application to atmospheric gravity waves

The Painleve integrability and exact solutions to a coupled nonlinear Schrodinger （CNLS） equation applied in atmospheric dynamics are discussed. Some parametric restrictions of the CNLS equation are given to pass the Painleve test. Twenty periodic cnoidal wave solutions are obtained by applying the rational expansions of fundamental Jacobi elliptic functions. The exact solutions to the CNLS equation are used to explain the generation and propagation of atmospheric gravity waves.

Atmospheric frontal gravity waves observed in satellite SAR images of the Bohai Sea and Huanghai Sea

In the satellite synthetic aperture radar（SAR） images of the Bohai Sea and Huanghai Sea,the authors observe sea surface imprints of wave-like patterns with an average wavelength of 3.8 km.Comparing SAR observations with sea surface wind fields and surface weather maps,the authors find that the occurrence of the wave-like phenomena is associated with the passing of atmospheric front.The authors define the waves as atmospheric frontal gravity waves.The dynamical parameters of the wave packets are derived from statistics of 9 satellite SAR images obtained from 2002 to 2008.A two-dimensional linear physical wave model is used to analyze the generation mechanism of the waves.The atmospheric frontal wave induced wind variation across the frontal wave packet is compared with wind retrievals from the SAR images.The CMOD-5（C-band scatterometer ocean geophysical model function） is used for SAR wind retrievals VV（transmitted vertical and received vertical） for ENVISAT and HH（transmitted horizontally and received horizontally） for RADARSAT-1.A reasonable agreement between the analytical solution and the SAR observation is reached.This new SAR frontal wave observation adds to the school of SAR observations of sea surface imprints of AGWs including island lee waves,coastal lee waves,and upstream Atmospheric Gravity Waves（AGW）.

ON THE ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES DURING THE 23RD SEPTEMBER 1987 ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE

During solar eclipse, the lunar shadow moves through the earth's atmosphere with supersonic speed. Chimonas and Hines deemed that the shock waves produced by cooling of atmosphere would induce gravity waves, and both TIDs and atmospheric pressure changes can be detected in the ionosphere and on the ground respectively. Although the IGW signals from solar eclipse are usually quite weak, they can still be detected .The pressure changes on ground level occur near the region of eclipse, but can be detected even far beyond the path of eclipse. This article is the first one to report results of detecting pressure waves caused by solar eclipse in China.Druing the 23rd September 1987 annular solar eclipse, IGWs have been detected and recorded at infrasound observatories in Urumqi, Taiyuan, Xuzhou and Suzhou, which are situated within the path of annular eclipse, as well as in Beijing and Guiyang, which are situated on the opposite sides of this path. The signals are detected by microbarometers of condenser microphone type. After analysing the waveforms of the recorded signals numerically, the wave periods and wave amplitudes are determined to be within the ranges from 10 to 60 min and from 7 to 20 Pa (peak to peak ) respectively. The results from dynamical spectral analyses show that the spectral distribution of all the gravity wave periods from various observatories is continuous and possesses a common main period of 40 min. Moreover, there are waves with even longer periods in different observatories and their appearance times are quite different.

Contaminated Effect of Geomagnetic Storms on Pre-Seismic Atmospheric and Ionospheric Anomalies during Imphal Earthquake

Study of seismo-ionospheric coupling mechanism demands the quiet geomagnetic condition to eliminate any kind of contamination in the lower atmospheric and ionospheric parameters. In this manuscript, we present the effect of back to back two geomagnetic storms before a strong earthquake happened in Imphal, India on January 4, 2016 (M = 6.7). We studied the lower ionospheric irregularities for the duration of 31 days by computing the nighttime fluctuations in Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio signal received transmitter JJI (22.2 kHz) in Japan at Ionospheric and Earthquake Research Centre & Optical Observatory (IERCOO), Sitapur, India. We also studied the presence of Atmospheric Gravity Wave (AGW) in nighttime VLF signal in lower ionospheric heights and the same computed that from SABER/TIMED satellite. Two geomagnetic storms occurred on December 21, and 31, 2015. By the conventional analysis, we found that there is a significant decrease in nighttime trend and an increase in nighttime fluctuations around 15 days before the earthquake and just on the first storm and thus the pre-seismic effects on VLF signal gets contaminated due to the presence of storms. The wave-like structure in VLF fluctuations shows significant increase in intensity by using Fourier and Wavelet analysis before the earthquake. By analysis of SABER data, we found significant enhancement in AGW around 10 days before the earthquake. As the wavelike structures are coming from neutral acoustics reasons from pressure or temperature variations, this paper exhibits a significant example of contamination in ionospheric parameters due to geomagnetic storm where the acoustics parameters remain un-contaminated.

Wavelike perturbations in Titan’s ionosphere and their compositional variation:A preliminary survey of Cassini Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer measurements

Wavelike perturbations in the ionosphere of Titan,the largest satellite of Saturn,are explored based on the Cassini Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer(INMS)measurements.Strong wavelike perturbations are identified for more than twenty ion species,from simple ones such as N^(+)and CH_(4)^(+)to complex ones such as C_(2)H_(3)CNH^(+)and C_(4)H_(7)^(+).Simultaneous wavelike perturbations in background N_(2),indicative of atmospheric gravity waves,are also observed,motivating us to speculate that the INMS-derived ion perturbations are wave-driven.The amplitudes of the ion perturbations are found to be larger than that of the N_(2)perturbations.Clear compositional variation is revealed by the data:heavier ion species exhibit greater amplitudes.Such observations might be understood based on considerations either of force balance or chemical loss in Titan’s ionosphere.

Amplitude Factorization Method in the Atmospheric Gravity-Wave Equation

A novel amplitude factorization method is applied to solve a discrete buoyancy wave equation with arbitrary wind and temperature height distribution.The solution is given in the form of a cumulative product of complex factors,which are computed by a nonlinear,inhomogeneous,two-member recurrence formula,initiated from a radiative condition on top.Singularities of the wave equation due to evanescent winds are eliminated by turbulent friction.The method provides an estimation of the minimal vertical resolution,required to attain a stable accurate solution.The areas of application of the developed numerical scheme are high resolution modelling of orographic waves for arbitrary orography in general atmospheric stratification conditions,and testing of adiabatic kernels of numerical weather prediction models.

EFFECTS OF WIND SHEAR ON ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVE SPECTRUM

The effects of constant wind shear on atmospheric gravity wave spectrum are examined.At first a three- dimensional equilibrium spectral model of gravity waves is established in which wind shear rate β is implicit. Based on this model,the expressions for one-dimensional frequency spectrum of atmospheric gravity waves are derived in which β is explicit.Numerical results show that (1) if we assume that mean wind U(z)=βz (z represents the altitude) and the internal gravity wave spectrum at the altitude of U=0 (that is,z=0) is VanZandt one,then the effect of Doppler shifting due to mean wind may be ignored;(2) when Richardson number J(J=N^2/β~2,N is Brunt-V(?)is(?)l(?) frequency,and is equal to 10^(-2)s^(-1) in this paper) satisfies J≥10.0,the effects ofwind shear arealso ignored;(3)for f^2(?)ω~2(?)N^2 (f is the inertia frequency,and f=10^(-4)s^(-1) in this paper,and co is the observed frequency),the wind shear only affects the spectral amplitude,and does not alter the spectral shape;and (4) as wind shear becomes strong,a part of wave potential energy turns into wave kinetic one,and a part of the vertical kinetic energy further turns into the horizontal one.