Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-14-2009
Abstract
We show that microbaroms, continuous infrasound fluctuations resulting from the interaction of the ocean with the atmosphere, have long-range correlation properties that make it possible to estimate the impulse response between two microphones from passive recordings. The processing is analogous to methods employed in the emerging field of ambient noise seismology, where the random noise source is the ocean coupling with the solid Earth (microseisms) instead of the atmosphere (microbaroms). We find that timedependent temperature fields and temperature inversions determine the character of infrasonic impulse responses at Fourpeaked Volcano in Alaska. Applications include imaging and monitoring the gross structure of the Earth’s atmospheric boundary layer.
Copyright Statement
An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2009 American Geophysical Union. DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040179
Publication Information
Haney, Matthew M.. (2009). "Infrasonic Ambient Noise Interferometry From Correlations of Microbaroms". Geophysical Research Letters, 39L19808-1 - L19808-5. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL040179