EGU24-8267, updated on 08 Mar 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-8267
EGU General Assembly 2024
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Categorisation of infrasound signals originated from thunderstorms using the Central and Eastern European Infrasound Network

Marcell Pásztor1,2, Tereza Šindelářová3, Daniela Ghica4, Bogdan Antonescu4,5, Ulrike Mitterbauer6, Alexander Liashchuk7, Tamás Bozóki1,2, and István Bondár8,9
Marcell Pásztor et al.
  • 1ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Geophysics and Space Science, Budapest, Hungary (pasztor.marcell@epss.hun-ren.hu)
  • 2HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, Sopron, Hungary
  • 3The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, Czechia
  • 4National Institute for Earth Physics (NIEP), Magurele, Romania
  • 5Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Magurele, Romania
  • 6GeoSphere Austria, Vienna, Austria
  • 7Main Centre of Special Monitoring, National Center for Control and Testing of Space, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 8HUN-REN Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
  • 9CSFK, MTA Centre of Excellence, Budapest, Hungary

The Central and Eastern European Infrasound Network (CEEIN) has been operating since 2019 in a collaboration of Hungarian, Czech, Romanian, Austrian, and Ukrainian research institutes. The study aims to extend the process of categorisation of infrasound signals that has been previously applied to the Hungarian infrasound array (PSZI) to the other CEEIN stations. The method of associating infrasound signals with thunderstorms relies on correlating the detections both spatially and temporally to lighting data from the Worldwide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN), which is considered ground truth. As a result, over 30,000 infrasound detections were categorized as thunderstorm-originated in the period between 2019 and 2023. Based on the results, we analyse the capabilities of the CEEIN to detect thunderstorms.

How to cite: Pásztor, M., Šindelářová, T., Ghica, D., Antonescu, B., Mitterbauer, U., Liashchuk, A., Bozóki, T., and Bondár, I.: Categorisation of infrasound signals originated from thunderstorms using the Central and Eastern European Infrasound Network, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-8267, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-8267, 2024.