Atmospheric wave energy of the 2020 August 4 explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, from ionospheric disturbances

HEKI Kosuke

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Feb. 04, 2021

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Abstract
Atmospheric waves excited by strong surface explosions, both natural and anthropogenic, often disturb upper atmosphere. In this letter, we report an N-shaped pulse with period ~ 1.3 min propagating southward at ~ 0.8 km/s, observed as changes in ionospheric total electron content using ……

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Article information:
Kundu, B., Senapati, B., Matsushita, A. et al. Atmospheric wave energy of the 2020 August 4 explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, from ionospheric disturbances. Sci Rep 11, 2793 (2021).
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-82355-5