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Baikal Electromagnetic Experiment

Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics volume 54, pages 1569–1594 (2018)Cite this article

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The vertical component of the electric field Ez in the hydrosphere is not contaminated by the telluric component and therefore can effectively be used to monitor various processes in the hydrosphere itself, lithosphere, and atmosphere. For this purpose, the Ez monitoring experiment on the surface–floor base has been conducted in Lake Baikal since 2003. The lack of the telluric component is confirmed experimentally and justified by simulation. The effect and precursors of the close earthquake, the variations in total flows of water currents, and variations in the closing current of the Global Electric Circuit in the conducting Earth are studied. The measurements of macroscopic quantum nonlocal correlations have also been set up since 2012. Based on them, the possibility of forecasting processes with a large random component, in particular a remote earthquake, is demonstrated. On the territory adjacent to the deep-water monitoring site, measurements of the gradients of magnetic field variations have been underway since 2017; it is expected that these will be expanded to the entire coast of Lake Baikal. To interpret measurements, geoelectric models of the Baikal rift, which represent the known competing hypotheses, have been constructed.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was fulfilled in the context of the fundamental research of the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, under government task no. 0144-2014-0111 with support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Irkutsk Oblast Government, project no. 17-45-38805.

A part of the work was carried out using the equipment of the Tunkin Astrophysics Common Use Center of Irkutsk State University.

The authors thank G.V. Domogatskii, A.I. Panfilov, A.V. Zagorodnikov, A.V. Novysh, and V.B. Buzin for their assistance in performing the experiment.

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  1. Geoelectromagnetic Research Centre, Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142092, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, Russia

    S. M. Korotaev, V. O. Serdyuk, D. A. Orekhova, M. S. Kruglyakov & E. O. Kiktenko

  2. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 105005, Moscow, Russia

    S. M. Korotaev & E. O. Kiktenko

  3. Applied Physics Institute, Irkutsk State University, 664003, Irkutsk, Russia

    N. M. Budnev, R. R. Mirgazov, V. L. Zurbanov & E. V. Ryabov

  4. Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142190, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, Russia

    Ju. V. Gorokhov

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Korotaev, S.M., Budnev, N.M., Serdyuk, V.O. et al. Baikal Electromagnetic Experiment. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 54, 1569–1594 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S000143381811004X

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Keywords:

  • marine geoelectrics
  • monitoring
  • flows
  • earthquakes
  • geosphere interaction
  • nonlocality
  • forecast
  • Baikal