Abstract
Infrasound signals generated by hurricanes, appearing in the microbarom frequency band, often arrive along a bearing that does not point toward the eye of the hurricane where the winds are strongest. In general, the microbarom source region appears to trail the center of the storm. This article proposes that microbarom generation occurs in an “interaction region” wherein the concentric hurricane wavefield meets and opposes the ambient ocean swell field. This hypothesis is supported by infrasound data from Typhoon Usagi (2007) and results from the WaveWatch 3 ocean wave model.
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Hetzer, C.H., Gilbert, K.E., Waxler, R., Talmadge, C.L. (2010). Generation of Microbaroms by Deep-Ocean Hurricanes. In: Le Pichon, A., Blanc, E., Hauchecorne, A. (eds) Infrasound Monitoring for Atmospheric Studies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9508-5_8
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