World's first meteotsunami observation with muography

A meteotsunami associated with Japan's 16th typhoon of 2021 was successfully detected with the undersea muographic array called HKMSDD for the first time. This was also the first time that muography was applied to observations of oceanographic phenomena. By deploying HKMSDD to other underwater tunnels globally, the cycles and processes of meteotsunamis and other dynamic oceanographic phenomena worldwide can be studied from different perspectives and with more detail than was available before.

The results of the research have been just published in Scientific Reports (Nature), and are the outcome of an ongoing international collaboration including the University of Tokyo, Kyushu University, NEC Corporation, the University of Sheffield, Durham University, STFC Boulby Underground Laboratory, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Ettore Majorana" Università di Catania, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sez. Catania, the University of Salerno, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Atacama University, and Oulu University Kerttu Saalasti Institute.

The research leader for the collaboration in Catania is Professor Domenico Lo Presti (DFA UniCT & INFN-CT).


Data di pubblicazione: 21/04/2022