A nonlinear background removal method for seismo-ionospheric anomaly analysis under a complex solar activity scenario: A case study of the M9.0 Tohoku earthquake

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 211-220

  He, Liming ^a   Wu, Lixin ^a,b   Pulinets, Sergey ^c   Liu, Shanjun ^a   Yang, Fan ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Anomaly recognition; Earthquake; Multiresolution wavelet transform (MWT); Solar electromagnetic radiation; Total electron content (TEC)

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ANOMALY RECOGNITION; GLOBAL IONOSPHERE MAPS; IONOSPHERIC TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT; LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION; MULTI-RESOLUTION WAVELET TRANSFORM; SOLAR ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; TIME SERIES PROCESSING; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 84861806534     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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