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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Borzì, Alfio Marco
• Minio, Vittorio
• Cannavò, Flavio
• Cavallaro, Angelo
• D’Amico, Sebastiano
• Gauci, Adam
• De Plaen, Raphael
• Lecocq, Thomas
• Nardone, Gabriele
• Orasi, Arianna
• Picone, Marco
• Cannata, Andrea

Titel

Monitoring extreme meteo-marine events in the Mediterranean area using the microseism (Medicane Apollo case study)

Ist Teil von

• Scientific reports, 2022-12, Vol.12 (1), p.21363-21363, Article 21363

Ort / Verlag

London: Nature Publishing Group UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Microseism is the continuous background seismic signal caused by the interaction between the atmosphere, the hydrosphere and the solid Earth. Several studies have dealt with the relationship between microseisms and the tropical cyclones, but none focused on the small-scale tropical cyclones that occur in the Mediterranean Sea, called Medicanes. In this work, we analysed the Medicane Apollo which impacted the eastern part of Sicily during the period 25 October–5 November 2021 causing heavy rainfall, strong wind gusts and violent sea waves. We investigated the microseism accompanying this extreme Mediterranean weather event, and its relationship with the sea state retrieved from hindcast maps and wave buoys. The spectral and amplitude analyses showed the space–time variation of the microseism amplitude. In addition, we tracked the position of Apollo during the time using two different methods: (i) a grid search method; (ii) an array analysis. We obtained a good match between the real position of Apollo and the location constraint by both methods. This work shows that it is possible to extract information on Medicanes from microseisms for both research and monitoring purposes.