A bird's-eye view on infrasound: High-resolution methods to unravel the ambient microbarom wavefield

Conversations between the Earth and Atmosphere: A study on the seismo-acoustic wavefield

The study of seismo-acoustic events is by no means new. Observations of earthquake-induced infrasound signals are dated back to the 1950s. However, the relative recent deployment of the International Monitoring System (IMS) by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) provided world coverage for such signals. The continuous...

A Three-Dimensional Array for the Study of Infrasound Propagation Through the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) operates a three-dimensional microbarometer array at the Cabauw Experimental Site for Atmospheric Research observatory. The array consists of five microbarometers on a meteorological tower up to an altitude of 200 m. Ten ground-based microbarometers surround the tower with an array aperture...

Bidirectional infrasonic ducts associated with sudden stratospheric warming events

In January 2011, the state of the polar vortex in the midlatitudes changed significantly due to a minor sudden stratospheric warming event. As a result, a bidirectional duct for infrasound propagation developed in the middle atmosphere that persisted for 2 weeks. The ducts were due to two zonal wind jets, one between 30 and 50 km and the other...