Data from: Upper atmosphere heating from ocean-generated acoustic wave energy

Colliding sea surface waves generate the ocean microbarom, an acoustic
signal that may transmit significant energy to the upper atmosphere.
Previous estimates of acoustic energy flux from the ocean microbarom and
mountain/wind interactions are on the order of 0.01 to 1 mW/m2, heating
the thermosphere by tens of degrees Kelvin per day. We captured up going
ocean microbarom waves with a balloon borne infrasound microphone; the
maximum acoustic energy flux was approximately 0.05 mW/m2. This is about
half the average value reported in previous ground-based microbarom
observations spanning eight years. The acoustic flux from the microbarom
episode described here may have heated the thermosphere by several degrees
Kelvin per day while the source persisted. We suggest that ocean wave
models could be used to parameterize acoustically-generated heating of the
upper atmosphere based on sea state.

相互碰撞的海面海浪会产生海洋微气压波（ocean microbarom），这是一种可将大量能量传输至高层大气的声学信号。此前针对海洋微气压波与山地、风场相互作用产生的声学能通量（acoustic energy flux）的估算结果约为0.01至1毫瓦每平方米（mW/m²），可使热层（thermosphere）每日升温数十开尔文。我们通过搭载于气球的次声麦克风（infrasound microphone）捕获到了上行海洋微气压波，其最大声学能通量约为0.05毫瓦每平方米。该数值约为此前八年地面微气压波观测报告中平均值的一半。本次研究中所描述的微气压波事件的声学能通量，在波源持续存在期间可使热层每日升温数开尔文。我们提出，可基于海况（sea state）利用海浪模型对高层大气的声学加热效应进行参数化处理。