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Thermal anomaly had been widely reported in the last 20 years, all of these researches focused on the horizontal range of the thermal anomaly, while the vertical structure is seldom reported. In this paper we studied the Ms5.9 earthquake occurred at Inner Mongolia on 16, August 2003 with NCEP temperature data. The result showed that the temperature increased about 9oC in the epicentral area just 4 days before this quake, and the temperature at 1000hpa is very close to the epicenter, nearly 50km. From 1000hpa to 700hpa, the thermal anomaly became far away from the epicenter, about 150km at 700hpa. It seemed that the anomaly was affected by winds and we considered that when this data was used to make prediction, the best choice was to choose the 1000hpa temperature.
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Guangmeng, G., Jie, Y. (2012). The Vertical Structure of Thermal Information before Inner Mongolia Ms5.9 Earthquake. In: Lee, G. (eds) Advances in Computational Environment Science. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 142. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27957-7_14
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