Power spectrum analysis of atmospheric ozone during the summer

Summary This paper describes a study of the fluctuations in total atmospheric ozone amount as measured with a Dobson Spectrophotometer during the summer season over three north Indian stations, using the technique of power spectrum analysis. In all 19 spectra have been constructed. The long term trend was removed by applying a high pass filter. The main conclusions are: (1) The nature of the spectrum at a station generally differs from year to year. (2) Spectra of different stations during the same year, are generally different. (3) From the significance study of the spectral peaks, most of the spectra revealed the presence of two types of periodicities. One of these is in the range of 10–17 days while the other is found to have a range of 4.5–8.3 days. (4) It has been suggested that the former periodicity may be closely linked to the index cycle, while the latter may be related to the long waves in the Westerlies.     

Power spectrum analysis of atmospheric ozone content over north India

Summary Atmospheric total ozone contents over three stations in north India have been studied. A power spectrum analysis has been made of daily values recoreded at these stations during the winter season. Three types of periodicities have been observed in the available records, namely, oscillations with a period of (a) 2.5–3.5 days, (b) 4.0–5.3 days and (c) 8.0–9.6 days. The first and third type of oscillations were also observed when the data were extended to cover an entire year, instead of the winter season alone. A possible mechanism for the occurrence of these periodicities is discussed.     

Features of resonance structures in natural electromagnetic noise spectra in the region of the main ionospheric trough

The paper presents the results of studies of the resonance structures of the background electromagnetic noise spectrum obtained in a series of experiments in the autumn of 2012 in Karelia. The experiments are unique because the background noise was detected at stations spaced by a distance much less than the doubled effective waveguide height (about 50 km) in a region close to the main ionospheric trough, the structure and position of which were determined based on radiotomographic data. It is shown that the dimensions of the ionospheric local region, which affects both the generation of spectral resonance structures in particular and the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the considered range in general, depend significantly on the variation of ionospheric parameters in regions with strong horizontal inhomogeneity.     

Periodic modulation of Pc3 and Pc4 pulsations in the polar cap by interplanetary and atmospheric processes

The variations in the daily average energy of geomagnetic pulsations and noise in the Pc3 (20–60 mHz) and Pc4 (10–19 mHz) frequency bands in the polar cap have been studied based on the data from P5 Antarctic station (corrected geomagnetic latitude ?87°) from November 1998 to November 1999. The daily average pulsation energy has been calculated using the method for detecting the wave packets, the spectral amplitude of which is higher than the threshold level, from the dynamic spectrum. A spectral analysis of the energy of pulsations and noise in the Pc3 and Pc4 bands, performed using the maximal entropy method, has revealed periodicities of 18 days in the local winter and 26, 13, and 7–9 days during the local summer. The simultaneous and coherent variations with periods of 26, 13, and 7–9 days in the solar wind velocity and IMF orientation indicate that the variations in the Pc3–4 wave energy in the polar cap at a sunlit ionosphere are mainly controlled by the parameters of the interplanetary medium. The variations in the Pc3–4 wave energy with a period of 18 days are observed only during the local winter and are supposedly related to the variations in the ionospheric conductivity modulated by planetary waves.     

Manifestation of planetary wave-type oscillations in variations in the critical frequencies of the ionospheric <Emphasis Type="Italic">F</Emphasis>2 layer in the Asian region

Results of studies of the wave structure of the critical frequencies of the ionospheric F2 layer with periods of planetary waves for two Asian stations—Irkutsk and Wuhan (China)—are presented. Estimates of the appearance frequency, amplitudes, and the lifetime of oscillations with periods typical of planetary waves (2–25 days) are obtained. It is shown that these characteristics depend on the season and place of observation. The appearance of joint periodicities in the critical frequencies at both stations, as well as in the planetary index of geomagnetic activity Ap, is noted.     

Signature of atmospheric oscillations in GPS-measured tropospheric delay

Ground-based GPS finds potential applications in many atmospheric studies such as spatial distribution of columnar water vapor as well as the tidal oscillations in the atmosphere. The zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) derived from GPS data at two Indian IGS stations are used to establish its potential for studying the atmospheric tidal, intra-seasonal and planetary oscillations. The major tidal oscillations observed in ZTD data are diurnal, semi-diurnal and their harmonics. Prominent intra-seasonal oscillations observed in ZTD are reported for the first time in this context. These intra-seasonal oscillations are Madden–Julian Oscillation (30–70 days, 60–90 days, 100–120 days) and planetary waves (like 27, 16 and 5–10 days periodicities). Quantification of these periodicities will provide a useful handle to improve the empirical models employed in the estimation of tropospheric delay.     

Remote sensing of thunderstorm activity by means of VLF sferics

The results of a three-month observational period (June–August 1981) during sunlit hours (9:00–15:00 GMT) with VLF sferics at the two stations Tel Aviv, Israel, and Pretoria, South Africa, are presented and compared with rainfall data for the European-African area, with two lability indices of thunderstorm prediction, and with synoptic thunderstorm reports for the same time interval. The locations of thunderstorm centers on the continents determined from the sferics stations compare reasonably well with the distribution of rainfall, indicating that the VLF sferics method is a useful measure of rainfall, particularly in remote regions with inadequate coverage of observing stations. The lability index of Showalter (1953) appears to be rather qualitative for the prediction of thunderstorm occurrence, and any fine structure in the distribution of thunderstorm centers as seen in the sferics data is lost. The same is true of the synoptic reports of thunderstorm days. A new lability index has been developed. This index leads to a more detailed structure of thunderstorm prediction, which is consistent with the sferics data.     

Daily precipitation variability in semiarid agricultural regions in Macedonia,Greece

Abstract

The spatio-temporal variability of daily precipitation series was investigated in a semiarid region of central Macedonia in northern Greece, Ten years of daily rainfall records for seven stations in the region constituted the data base. The spatial characteristics were examined by drawing composite correlation diagrams for the cool (October-March) season and the warm (April-September) season, and the results confirmed the regional homogeneity of the data sets. Furthermore, the temporal analysis indicated that the non-rainy days constituted the major portion of days throughout the year at all the stations. Similarly, light rainfall represented the majority of rainy days. Moreover, the annual rainfall variation showed high values in March, April and November with low values occurring in the summer and autumn. A sharp increase of rainfall between the 185th and the 195th day of the year must be taken into account when the harvest is scheduled. Harmonic and Power Spectrum analyses applied to the annual variation of rain depths using 5-day intervals revealed significant periodicities of 26, 122, 365 and 55 days. Finally the analysis of the annual variation of rain occurrences. revealed periodicities of 365 and 122 days.     

Microseismic anomalies before the Sumatra earthquake of December 26, 2004

Microseismic records from five broadband IRIS stations located at distances of 1000–2000 km from the earthquake source are studied. Unordinary programs are used to extract hidden periodicities, determine signal coherence at different stations, and reveal asymmetry in wave amplitudes. The records obtained at a few stations 60 h before the Sumatra earthquake include periodic oscillations in the range of periods from 20 to 60 min that arose after the McQuary earthquake and continued for about 24 h. Synchronization of waves recorded at all stations commenced 53 h before the Sumatra earthquake and continued up to the time of the earthquake, with the predominant period gradually increasing from a few minutes to tens of minutes.     

前兆定点形变观测数据噪声分析

地球物理研究表明,可以构造或选择合适的统计模型模拟观测噪声,从而了解噪声特性,获得噪声谱及其含量.对吉林省5个台站的倾斜观测共18个测项产出的时间序列进行噪声分析,结果表明,长期观测噪声可用带通噪声和随机游走噪声的组合模型模拟,短时间观测噪声可用谱指数介于-1至-2的幂律噪声模型模拟.该结论对定点形变观测噪声的认识、噪声源的研究以及地壳构造信息的提取具有参考意义.     

Coherence between the fields of low-frequency seismic noise in Japan and California

The relationship is considered between the statistics of the field of low-frequency seismic noise which was synchronously recorded by two broadband seismic networks in Japan (78 stations) and California (81 stations). The analysis is based on the data for seven years of observations (2008–2014). For each network, the daily time series of the median values are constructed for five parameters of seismic noise: kurtosis (excess), minimal normalized entropy of the distribution of the squared wavelet coefficients, generalized Hurst exponent, support width of the singularity spectrum, and index of linear predictability. The median values for each parameter were calculated on a daily basis over all the stations of the networks and resulted in a time series containing 2557 data points of the integral characteristics of the noise with a daily time step. The use of the median values of the noise parameters avoids considering the effects of the gaps in recording by individual stations and provides the continuous time series as the integral characteristic of the whole network. Next, for each network, the aggregate signals were calculated for the obtained five-variate time series. By construction, the aggregate signal is a scalar signal which maximally accumulates the most general variations that are simultaneously present in all the analyzed signals and, at the same time, rejects the components that are only characteristic of a single process. The final step of the analysis consists in estimating the evolution of the quadratic spectrum in the moving time window with a length of one year. It is shown that during the considered interval of the observations, the coherence is characterized by the increasing linear trend, which independently supports the previous conclusion about the enhancement of the synchronization between the parameters of the global seismic noise.     

Time evolution of cosmic-ray intensity and solar flare index at the maximum phase of cycles 21 and 22

Analysis of the time series into trigonometric series allows the investigation of cosmic-ray (CR) intensity variations in a range of periodicities from a few days to 1 year. By this technique the amplitude and the phase of all observed fluctuations can be given. For this purpose, daily CR intensity values recorded at Climax Neutron Monitor station for the time intervals 1979–1982 and 1989–1991, which correspond to the epochs of maximum activity for solar cycles 21 and 22, respectively, have been studied. The data analysis revealed the occurrence of new periodicities, common or not, in the two solar maxima. A search of our results was done by a power spectral analysis determining independently possible systematic periodic or quasi-periodic variations. Based on the fact that during these maxima the CR intensity tracks the solar flare index better than the sunspot number, the same analysis was performed on these data, which are equivalent to the total energy emitted by the solar flares. Both analyses result in periodicities with different probability of occurrence in different epochs. Occurrence at peaks of 70, 56, 35, 27, 21 and 14- days were observed in all time series, while the periods of 140–154 and 105 days are reported only in the 21st solar maximum and are of particular importance. All of the short-term periods except of those at 27 and 154-days are recorded for first time in CR data, but they had already been observed in the solar activity parameters. Moreover, each parameter studied here has a very different power spectrum distribution in periods larger than 154 days. The possible origin of the observed variations in terms of the CR interaction in the upper atmosphere and the solar cavity dynamics is also discussed here.     

Phase and Correlation in `Random' Seismic Fields and the Reconstruction of the Green Function

We first present a summary of recent results on coda interpretation. We emphasize the observation of the stabilization of P to S energy ratio indicating the modal equipartition of the wavefield. This property clearly shows that the coda waves are in the regime of multiple scattering. Numerical solutions of the elastic radiative transfer equation are used to illustrate the evolution of the wave-field towards P-to-S energy stabilization, and asymptotically to complete isotropy. The energy properties of the coda have been widely studied but the phase properties have often been neglected. The recently observed coherent backscattering enhancement, an expression of the so-called `weak localization', demonstrates that interference effects still persist for multiple diffracted waves. Another manifestation of the persistence of the phase is the possibility to reconstruct the Green function between two stations by averaging the cross correlation of coda waves produced by distant earthquakes and recorded at those two stations. This reconstruction is directly related to the properties of reciprocity and time reversal of any wavefield. Using broadband seismic coda waves, we show that the dominant phases of the Green function in the band 2 s–10 s, namely fundamental mode Rayleigh and Love waves, are reconstructed. We analyze the time symmetry of the cross correlation and show how the level of symmetry evolves with the isotropization of the diffuse field with lapse time. Similarly we investigate the correlation in continuous ambient noise records. Whereas the randomness of the coda results from multiple scattering by randomly distributed scatterers, we assume that the seismic noise is random mostly because of the distribution of sources at the surface of the Earth. Surface waves can be extracted from long time series. The dispersion curves of Rayleigh waves are deduced from the correlations. On paths where measurements from earthquake data are also available, we show that they are in good agreement with those deduced from noise correlation. The measurement of velocities from correlation of noise along paths crossing different crustal structures opens the way for a `passive imaging' of the Earth's structure.     

汶川大震前数字地震仪位移地脉动低频异常现象研究

选取了2008年4月25日至5月12日间的四川台网14个台宽频带地震仪记录到的地脉动波形资料,把速度波形做适当的数据校正和滤波处理后,经积分转换成位移波形.频谱分析结果表明:地震发生前存在低频异常颤动,地震前2～3天开始0.1～0.3Hz频段傅里叶谱幅值逐渐增大;各个台的位移振幅值逐渐增强.其中靠近龙门山断裂带的台站记录到的地脉动变化较明显.     

首都圈数字地震台网对微弱爆破信号的检测能力

利用首都圈数字地震台网接收人工地震信号,进行地下结构研究具有重要意义.但人工震源释放的能量小,激发的地震波以短周期为主,因此本文较全面地研究了地震台网对短周期微弱信号（1～20 Hz）的检测能力：(1) 分析了台网的背景噪声,结果表明基岩台址的地震台噪声比沉积盖层台址的地震台噪声低约13 dB,这相当于近1个震级的检测阈值;夜间的噪声比白天低约5 dB;噪声有逐年增高的趋势,2006年比2001年噪声提高约4 dB.(2 )分析了在台网内进行的药量为25 kg的陆地井下爆破实验,一次爆破相当于0.69级（M_L）的天然地震,有18个地震台可辨认爆炸产生的Pg、Pm或Pc波;离爆破点218 km的基岩台,仍可以接收到振幅只有1.6 nm 的Pm波,这个结果可为地震勘探实际工作提供参考.(3) 研究了台网外核爆试验的信号特征,2006年发生在朝鲜的地下核试验是一次检验台网检测微弱信号能力的好机会.波形记录经1～5Hz滤波后,台网中噪声小的18个基岩台可以清晰辨认核爆破产生的P波或Lg波,P波平均振幅为16 nm,计算的平均震级为m_b4.3,和NEIC给出的震级相同;分析还表明背景噪声是影响台站信号检测能力的主要因素之一.     

国家数字地震台网台站地动噪声功率谱分析

介绍了国家数字地震台站仪器的配置,通过对37个新建数字地震台站自2002年8月至2003年7月台基噪声功率谱的计算和分析,把37个国家数字地震台站的台基分为3类。为了得到台站地动噪声的变化情况,我们已经把计算地动噪声功率谱作为国家数字地震台网资料分析处理的一项日常工作进行。     

华北科学探测台阵背景噪声特征分析

利用华北科学探测台阵180多个宽频带台站2007年的连续记录,得到了台站之间噪声互相关函数.通过对三个分量记录的相关运算,获得了Rayleigh波和Love波的经验格林函数,分析了其信噪比随周期的变化和高信噪比台站对的方位分布.利用经验格林函数的非对称性和聚束方法,研究了华北科学探测台阵地震噪声的方位分布,及其季节变化特征.尽管噪声源的分布随季节有轻微变化,但全年的分析结果表明,10～32 s周期内华北台阵的地震噪声源在各个方向上的分布近于均匀,这为利用噪声成像提供了理论前提.     

2003年日本北海道8.0级地震次声波特征研究

利用在北京昌平安装的次声三点阵, 记录了2003年9月26日日本北海道地震的前兆次声波和震后次声波。 实际记录的P-t曲线及波速波向图, 经快速傅立叶变换得到其三维动态频谱。 结果表明: ① 强震前2～7天能测到振幅很强、 方向可测的地震前兆次声波。 其频谱特点是: 振幅由弱(10～15 Pa)逐渐加强到(50～80 Pa)或更大; 先为短周期波(10～30 min), 紧跟着长周期波(30～50 min), 然后又出现更长的周期波, 最后长短周期的波一起出现连成一片(2～62 min); ② 地震前兆次声波的产生和记录较容易, 而当地次声波和震中次声波记录和识别比较困难; ③ 若两地的三点阵波向相交, 可预测震中位置。 故地震前兆次声波的测量研究, 有可能发展成为临震预报中一种有效的新方法     

不同深度布设台站的噪声及信号幅值特征分析

为探究地震观测中地震计检测到的噪声和信号强度均受其布设深度的影响,本文首先对CPUP和LPAZ两台站布设的不同深度地震计所得到的数据进行噪声水平和地震信号对比;其次采用对比功率谱密度的方法对两台站不同通道采集到的不同时段的噪声数据进行分析;最后比较两台站不同通道采集到的整月数据的噪声幅值、信号幅值、信噪比特征。结果显示:深度较大的通道,其噪声功率均值较小;当事件信号到来时,较深通道的地震计检测到的信号和噪声幅值比较浅通道均有所减小,在信号和噪声幅值均减小的共同影响下,信噪比有一定程度的变化,其中LPAZ台站的信噪比提高较为明显。      

Lunar–solar tide effects in the Earth’s crust and atmosphere

The gravitational interaction in the Earth–Moon–Sun system is considered from the standpoint of influencing the formation of time variations in the geophysical fields and some natural processes. The analysis of the results of instrumental observations revealed the main periodicities and cycles in the time variations of subsoil radon volumetric activity with the same periods as the vertical component of the variations of the tidal force. The amplitude modulation of seismic noise by the lunar-solar tide is demonstrated. It is shown that the intensity of relaxation processes in the Earth’s crust has a near-diurnal periodicity, whereas the spectrum of groundwater level fluctuations includes clearly expressed tidal waves. Based on the data on the tilts of the Earth’s surface, the role of tidal deformation in the formation of the block motions in the Earth’s crust is analyzed. A new approach is suggested for identifying tidal waves in the atmosphere by analyzing micropulsations of the atmospheric pressure with the use of adaptive rejection filters.