OCCHIPINTI , G.

On the 21 August 2017 the eclipse shadow drastically changed the state of the ionosphere over the United States. This effect on the ionosphere is visible in the total electron content measured by Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). The shadow moved with the supersonic speed of ~1,000 m/s over Oregon to ~650 m/s over South Carolina. In...

The recent tsunamigenic earthquake in Tohoku (11 March 2011) strongly affirms, one more time after the Sumatra event (26 December 2004), the necessity to open new paradigms in oceanic monitoring. Detection of ionospheric anomalies following the Sumatra tsunami demonstrated that ionosphere is sensitive to the tsunami propagation. Observations...

Large earthquakes (Mw > 6.5) in the shallow subduction zone are powerful sources of destructive tsunamis. The uplift at the source related to those events also triggers coseismic ionospheric disturbances (CIDs) that are routinely detected using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) multi-frequency measurements. Developed over the last two...

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In this work, numerical simulations of the atmospheric and ionospheric anomalies are performed for the Tohoku-Oki tsunami (2011 March 11). The Tsunami-Atmosphere-Ionosphere (TAI) coupling mechanism via acoustic gravity waves (AGWs) is explored theoretically using the TAI-coupled model. For the modelled tsunami wave as an input, the coupled...

Most tsunamis occur after large submarine earthquakes, particularly in the Pacific Ocean. However, following the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, tsunami hazard awareness was significantly raised at the global scale, and warning systems were developed in many other regions, where large tsunamis are rarer but can also produce large...