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Based on the data from the GPS receiving networks in Japan and America which have a high time resolution (2 min), two-dimensional (2D) distributions of the variations in the ionospheric total electron content (TEC) are constructed both close to and far from of the epicenter of the submarine earthquake of March 11, 2011 in Japan. Above the epicenter, a diverging multi-period disturbance appears after the main shock due to the acoustic gravity waves. Far from the epicenter, the wave trains associated with the tsunamigenic atmospheric internal gravity waves are revealed. These atmospheric waves significantly advance the arrival of the tsunami signal initially on the Hawaiian islands and then on the western coast of North America. The presence of the tsunami precursor in the form of atmospheric gravity waves is supported by the numerical calculations and by the analysis of the dispersion relation for the waves in the atmosphere. The detected ionospheric responses close and far from the epicenter can be used in the early tsunami warning systems.
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Original Russian Text © S.L. Shalimov, I.A. Nesterov, A.M. Vorontsov, 2017, published in Fizika Zemli, 2017, No. 2, pp. 97–108.
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Shalimov, S.L., Nesterov, I.A. & Vorontsov, A.M. On the GPS-based ionospheric perturbation after the Tohoku earthquake of March 11, 2011. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 53, 262–273 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351317020112
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