Collaborative Research: Quantifying Explosive Volcanism in Alaska Using Seismo-acoustic Wavefields Recorded by USArray

合作研究：利用 USArray 记录的地震声波场量化阿拉斯加的火山爆发

• 批准号: 1614323
• 负责人: David Fee
• 金额: $ 7.88万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1614323&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Quantifying; Explosive; Volcanism

Collaborative Research: Quantifying explosive volcanism in Alaska using seismo-acoustic wavefields recorded by USArrayAlaska is home to 130 potentially active volcanoes, of which more than 50 have been active in historical times. On average 2 volcanoes are in a state of eruption every year. Volcanoes in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska Peninsula, and Cook Inlet are capable of sudden, explosive, ash-cloud forming eruptions, which are potentially hazardous to passenger and freight aircraft along this heavily travelled air corridor. Many of Alaska?s volcanoes are in remote locations with harsh environments. Monitoring these volcanoes represents a formidable challenge and many of the volcanoes are not instrumented. Infrasound (acoustic waves with frequencies below the 20 Hz hearing threshold of the human ear) is a rapidly developing technology to understand and monitor explosive volcanic eruptions. Modest-sized explosive eruptions produce powerful infrasound signals that propagate efficiently over thousands of kilometers in the atmosphere. However, to date, these signals have been recorded by sparse infrasound sensor networks, limiting our understanding of their source generation and propagation through the atmosphere. The EarthScope Transportable Array (TA) is currently being deployed in Alaska, bringing the densest ever combined seismic and infrasonic network to one of the world?s most active volcanic regions. Exploiting this novel dataset, this project will advance the capability of acoustic early warning systems of volcanic eruptions for aviation safety and will assess the potential contribution of large sensor networks such as the TA to volcano monitoring. At the end of the project, an operational volcano-acoustic monitoring system resulting from this work will be implemented at the Alaska Volcano Observatory.This work will capitalize on the unprecedented seismo-acoustic dataset starting to become available as the TA records Alaska?s routine explosive volcanism with dense spatial wavefield sampling. Volcano seismo-acoustics is a rapidly advancing research field, where basic questions remain on the source mechanisms, source directionality, atmospheric propagation, and seismo-acoustic coupling from explosive volcanic eruptions. This project will focus on detection, discrimination, and location of the signals using novel methods; quantifying the seismo-acoustic wavefield; investigating the source mechanisms; quantifying seismo-acoustic wave coupling; and understanding infrasound propagation in the spatio-temporally varying atmosphere. Through a combination of data analysis and modeling, we will characterize and quantify diverse seismic and infrasonic signals recorded at a range of distances and directions from the explosive eruption source. We will address the following questions: (1) How do observed acoustic and seismic signals from explosive volcanic eruptions vary with distance and azimuth to the source? (2) How does acoustic propagation differ for various types of explosive eruptions? (3) What kind of volcanic source information can be determined from long-range seismo-acoustic data? (4) What are the wavefield sampling limitations in previous volcano infrasound studies? (5) What other infrasound sources are present in Alaska? Our team will work with the EarthScope National Office at the University of Alaska Fairbanks to help highlight this research and its impacts. Multi-media products illustrating seismo-acoustic wavefields from volcanic eruptions in Alaska will be distributed via the web for use in public information packets and education and outreach. Event catalogs and related data products will be publically available, with notable infrasound events uploaded to the IRIS TA Infrasound Reference Event Database (TAIRED).

合作研究：阿拉斯加有130座潜在的活火山，其中50多座在历史上曾经活跃过。平均每年有两座火山处于喷发状态。阿留申群岛、阿拉斯加半岛和库克湾的火山能够突然爆发，形成火山灰云，这对沿着这条繁忙的空中走廊的客运和货运飞机有潜在的危险。许多阿拉斯加？中国的火山位于偏远地区，环境恶劣。监测这些火山是一项艰巨的挑战，许多火山没有仪器。次声（频率低于人耳20赫兹听阈的声波）是一种快速发展的技术，用于了解和监测火山爆发。中等规模的爆炸性喷发会产生强大的次声信号，在大气层中有效传播数千公里。然而，到目前为止，这些信号已经被稀疏的次声传感器网络记录下来，限制了我们对其源产生和通过大气传播的理解。EarthScope便携式阵列（TA）目前正在阿拉斯加部署，将前所未有的地震和次声组合网络带到世界之一？最活跃的火山区。利用这一新的数据集，该项目将提高火山爆发声学预警系统的航空安全能力，并将评估大型传感器网络（如TA）对火山监测的潜在贡献。在该项目结束时，一个业务火山声学监测系统，从这项工作产生的将实施在阿拉斯加火山天文台。这项工作将利用前所未有的地震声学数据集开始成为可用的TA记录阿拉斯加？的常规爆发性火山活动与密集的空间波场采样。火山地震声学是一个发展迅速的研究领域，其中的基本问题仍然是震源机制，震源方向性，大气传播，地震声耦合从火山爆发。该项目将侧重于使用新方法检测、鉴别和定位信号;量化地震声波场;调查震源机制;量化地震声波耦合;以及了解次声在时空变化大气中的传播。通过数据分析和建模的结合，我们将描述和量化在距离爆炸喷发源的距离和方向范围内记录的各种地震和次声信号。我们将解决以下问题：（1）如何观察到的声波和地震信号从爆炸性火山爆发的距离和方位角的来源变化？(2)不同类型的爆炸性喷发的声传播有何不同？(3)从远程地震声学资料中可以确定什么样的火山源信息？(4)在以往的火山次声研究中，波场取样的局限性是什么？(5)阿拉斯加还有哪些次声源？我们的团队将与阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯的地球镜国家办公室合作，以帮助突出这项研究及其影响。说明阿拉斯加火山爆发的地震声波场的多媒体产品将通过网络分发，用于新闻包、教育和外联。事件目录和相关的数据产品将以电子方式提供，值得注意的次声事件将上传到IRIS TA次声参考事件数据库（TAIRED）。