Atmospheric muography for imaging and monitoring tropic cyclones.
Sci Rep
; 12(1): 16710, 2022 10 06.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-36202852
ABSTRACT
Large-scale solid bodies on Earth such as volcanoes and man-made pyramids have been visualized with solid earth muography, and the recently invented technique, acqueous muography, has already demonstrated its capability to visualize ocean tides and tsunami. In this work, atmospheric muography, a technique to visualize and monitor the vertical profile of tropic cyclones (TCs) is presented for the first time. The density distribution and time-dependent behavior of several TCs which had approached Kagoshima, Japan, has been investigated with muography. The resultant time-sequential images captured their warm cores, and their movements were consistent with the TC trails and barometric pressure variations observed at meteorological stations. By combining multidirectional muographic images with barometric data, we anticipate that muography will become a useful tool to monitor the three-dimensional density distribution of a targeted mesoscale convective system.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Cyclonic Storms
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
En
Journal:
Sci Rep
Year:
2022
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Japan
Publication country:
ENGLAND
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ESCOCIA
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GB
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GREAT BRITAIN
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INGLATERRA
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REINO UNIDO
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SCOTLAND
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UK
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UNITED KINGDOM