Meteorological events and climate extremes can generate a wide range of environmental processes, from intense rainfall, floods and sediment transport to landslides, snow avalanches, glacier dynamics and coastal and ocean responses. Many of these processes generate seismic signals that can be continuously recorded by seismic networks, dense nodal arrays and emerging technologies such as Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS). Environmental seismology therefore offers a complementary observational approach to conventional meteorological, hydrological, remote-sensing and geophysical techniques.
This session aims to bring together recent advances in the use of seismic observations to detect, characterize and quantify meteorological events and their environmental impacts. We welcome contributions addressing both the generation and interpretation of environmental seismic signals and their use for monitoring environmental processes.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, seismic signatures of rainfall, storms, floods and river discharge; sediment transport and debris flows; rainfall-triggered landslides and other mass movements; snow and avalanche dynamics; glacier and permafrost responses to meteorological forcing; ocean- and atmosphere-generated seismic signals; freeze–thaw processes; and cascading responses to extreme weather events. We particularly encourage contributions demonstrating how seismic observations can provide quantitative information on environmental conditions, process rates or event evolution.
The session also welcomes methodological advances, including ambient seismic noise analysis, seismic interferometry, dense seismic arrays, nodal instrumentation, Distributed Acoustic Sensing, machine learning and real-time seismic monitoring. Contributions combining seismic observations with meteorological, hydrological, remote-sensing or other environmental observations are especially encouraged.
By bringing together researchers from seismology, geomorphology, hydrology, cryospheric sciences and environmental monitoring, this session aims to highlight the potential of environmental seismology as an emerging tool for observing and understanding the response of the Earth system to meteorological forcing and extreme events.