Investigation of infrasound signatures from microbaroms using OH airglow and ground-based microbarometers

Thurian Le Du (1, 2) , Pierre Simoneau (1) , Philippe Keckhut (3) , Alain Hauchecorne (3) , Alexis Le Pichon (4)

1 DEMR, ONERA, Université Paris Saclay [Palaiseau]
2 LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales
3 STRATO - LATMOS
4 DSSI - Département des Sciences de la Simulation et de l'Information

In the frame of the European H2020 project ARISE, a short wave infrared (SWIR) InGaAs camera has been operated at the Haute-Provence Observatory, during a night that corresponds to the peak of Geminid meteor shower to investigate infrasound associated with meteor arrivals. This camera allows continuous observations during clear-sky nighttime of the OH airglow layer centered at 87 km. These observations were collocated with Rayleigh lidar measurements providing vertical temperature profiles from the lower stratosphere to the altitude of the OH layer around the mesopause. Spectral analysis of OH images did not allow to detect infrasound associated with meteor trails, however it reveals a peak corresponding to infrasound signals in the frequency band of those produced by ocean swell. Infrasound wave activity observed from ground-based microbarometers as well as the OH camera, appear to be modified with the presence of a temperature inversion described by Rayleigh lidar. Indeed, there is a difference in energy related to infrasonic activity between the first part of the night during the temperature inversion and after the inversion.

Keywords: Airglow; Infrasound; Microbaroms; OH

Domains: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph]

Thurian Le Du, Pierre Simoneau, Philippe Keckhut, Alain Hauchecorne, Alexis Le Pichon. Investigation of infrasound signatures from microbaroms using OH airglow and ground-based microbarometers. Advances in Space Research, 2020, 65 (3), pp.902-908. ⟨10.1016/j.asr.2019.11.026⟩. ⟨insu-02405801⟩