From Sumatra 2004 to Tohoku-Oki 2011: The systematic GPS detection of the ionospheric signature induced by tsunamigenic earthquakes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3626-3636

  Occhipinti, Giovanni ^a   Rolland, Lucie ^b   Lognonné, Philippe ^a   Watada, Shingo ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

GPS; internal gravity waves; ionosphere; Ionospheric Sieismology; Modeling; tsunami

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882807090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgra.50322     Document Type: Article

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