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

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 occ...

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Autores principales: 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
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9734140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36494402
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25395-9
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author 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
author_facet 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
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-97341402022-12-11 Monitoring extreme meteo-marine events in the Mediterranean area using the microseism (Medicane Apollo case study) 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 Sci Rep Article 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. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9734140/ /pubmed/36494402 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25395-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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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
Monitoring extreme meteo-marine events in the Mediterranean area using the microseism (Medicane Apollo case study)
title Monitoring extreme meteo-marine events in the Mediterranean area using the microseism (Medicane Apollo case study)
title_full Monitoring extreme meteo-marine events in the Mediterranean area using the microseism (Medicane Apollo case study)
title_fullStr Monitoring extreme meteo-marine events in the Mediterranean area using the microseism (Medicane Apollo case study)
title_full_unstemmed Monitoring extreme meteo-marine events in the Mediterranean area using the microseism (Medicane Apollo case study)
title_short Monitoring extreme meteo-marine events in the Mediterranean area using the microseism (Medicane Apollo case study)
title_sort monitoring extreme meteo-marine events in the mediterranean area using the microseism (medicane apollo case study)
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9734140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36494402
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25395-9
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