Seismogenic Anomalies in Atmospheric Gravity Waves as Observed from SABER/TIMED Satellite during Large Earthquakes

Figure 3

Altitude variation of temperature in Kelvin (black solid curve) with 3rd order polynomial fitted value (red dashed curve), perturbation temperature (solid black curve) and the nonperturbed temperature (blue dashed line), Brunt Vaisala Frequency in rad/, calculated potential energy in J/kg, and threshold (magenta dotted line) from 30 to 50 km on: (a) 05-03-2011, for Tohoku earthquake, (b) 08-04-2012, for Indian Ocean earthquake, (c) 22-04-2015, for first Nepal earthquake, (d) 09-05-2015 for second Nepal earthquake, (e) 05-04-2016 for Kumamoto earthquake, and (f) 25-08-2017 for Chiapas earthquake.

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