Central and Eastern European Infrasound Network: contribution to infrasound monitoring

Abstract

The Central and Eastern European Infrasound Network (CEEIN) has been established in 2018 with the collaboration of four research institutes, the Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie and Geodynamik (ZAMG), Vienna, Austria; the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS IAP), Prague, Czech Republic; the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH CSFK), Budapest, Hungary; and the National Institute for Earth Physics (NIEP), Magurele, Romania. The Main Centre of Special Monitoring National Center for Control and Testing of Space Facilities, State Agency of Ukraine joined CEEIN in 2019. We show how the CEEIN infrasound arrays improve the detection capability of the European infrasound network and discuss coherent noise sources observed at CEEIN stations. We present the first CEEIN bulletin (2017-2020) of infrasound-only and seismo-acoustic events and using ground truth events, we demonstrate how adding infrasound observations to seismic data in the location algorithm improves location accuracy.