Annual Variation of Local Photon Emissions’ Spectral Power within the mHz Range Overlaps with Seismic-Atmospheric Acoustic Oscillations英文文献资料.docVIP

International Journal of Geosciences, 2012, 3, 192-194 /10.4236/ijg.2012.31021 Published Online February 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ijg) Annual Variation of Local Photon Emissions’ Spectral Power within the mHz Range Overlaps with Seismic-Atmospheric Acoustic Oscillations Michael A. Persinger Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada Email: mpersinger@laurentian.ca Received November 14, 2011; revised December 23, 2011; accepted January 25, 2012 ABSTRACT Spheroidal modes of seismic and acoustic oscillations in the atmosphere occur within the 2 to 7 mHz range with peak- –12 –11 –2 to-peak variations in the order of 10 to 10 m·s . Previous research indicated the amplitudes for 230 s and 270 s periods peak during the summer months. In the present study the amplitudes of a reliably apparent 3 mHz increment from spectral analyses of minute-to-minute measurements of background photon emissions by a photomultiplier tube housed in a dark room were sampled for a one year period. The peak increase in the power of this increment was maxi- mal during the summer months and overlapped conspicuously with the annual variation in fundamental spheroidal modes –11 2 of seismic free oscillations. Quantitative estimates indicate that relative shifts in the order of 10 W/m for photon emissions may reflect the annual variation in coupled oscillations between the earth and atmosphere. Keywords: Photon Emissions; Earth Oscillations; Spheroidal Modes; Periodicity; Annual Variations 1. Introduction For the last three years minute-to-minute measures of background photon emission have been recorded by the station’s (Sudbury, Ontario) photomultiplier tube (PMT). We [4] have found conspicuous increases in photon emission several days before the major (M 8.0) global earthquakes in Japan and Chile during the last two years and smaller but statistically significant increase