Conveners
O5.1 Synergies with Global Challenges
- Guillermo Rocco (CTBTO Preparatory Commission)
- Kathy Whaler (University of Edinburgh)
Research using acoustic recordings to estimate animal population sizes is being applied increasingly frequently to both marine and terrestrial species. Here, data from the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) International Monitoring System (IMS) hydroacoustic stations have been used to monitor baleen whales. For example, several baleen whale species have been recorded at...
After the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, leading to a tsunami devastating Thailand's west coast, concerns were raised about the effects on infrastructure and human life. This study aims to model Tsunami Arrival Times and Wave Heights along the Andaman Sea Coast of Thailand using the TOAST (Tsunami Observation and Simulation Terminal) module integrated into the SeisComP software. The default...
The International Monitoring System (IMS) infrasound network’s ability to detect atmospheric nuclear detonations is limited by a combination of wind-noise, anthropogenic sources, and the microbarom, the constant and globally ubiquitous infrasonic noise driven by oceanic waves. The presence of seasonal weather conditions may increase the strength of the microbarom, further increasing background...
Explosive volcanic eruptions produce large amount of infrasound (<20 Hz), which can propagate over hundreds to thousands of kilometers in the atmosphere. These eruptions also inject large amounts of ash in the atmosphere, posing a direct threat to commercial flights and the population under the ash plume trajectory.
The Volcanic Information System (VIS) was developed within the Atmospheric...
Predicting and responding to changing environmental conditions is an essential part of making optimal decisions about movement. Over small spatial scales such decisions may be guided by short-range cues, but it can be unclear what cues underlie movement at scales exceeding 1000s of km. Infrasound could form such a cue. In marine habitats, infrasound is largely generated by non-linear wave...
