Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2017
Abstract
Recent developments of remote sensing methods for Earth satellite data analysis contribute to our understanding of earthquake related thermal anomalies. It was realized that the thermal heat fluxes over areas of earthquake preparation is a result of air ionization by radon (and other gases) and consequent water vapor condensation on newly formed ions. Latent heat (LH) is released as a result of this process and leads to the formation of local thermal radiation anomalies (TRA) known as OLR (outgoing Longwave radiation, Ouzounov et al, 2007). We compare the LH energy, obtained by integrating surface latent heat flux (SLHF) over the area and time with released energies associated with these events. Extended studies of the TRA using the data from the most recent major earthquakes allowed establishing the main morphological features. It was also established that the TRA are the part of more complex chain of the short-term pre-earthquake generation, which is explained within the framework of a lithosphere-atmosphere coupling processes.
Recommended Citation
Ouzounov, D., Pulinets, S., Kafatos, M., Taylor, P. (2017). Thermal radiation anomalies associated with major earthquakes. NASA Technical Report 20170008528 . Retrieved from https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20170008528
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This technical report was originally published by NASA in September 2017.