Using smartphones for monitoring atmospheric tides

Colin Price; Ron Maor; Hofit Shachaf

doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2018.04.015

Using smartphones for monitoring atmospheric tides

Colin Price, Ron Maor, Hofit Shachaf

School of the Environment and Earth Sciences

Tel Aviv University

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Abstract

By 2020 there will be more than 6 billion smartphones around the globe, carried by the public. These smartphones are equipped with sensitive sensors that can be used to monitor our environment (temperature, pressure, humidity, magnetic field, etc.) In this paper we use the pressure sensor (barometer) within smartphones to study atmospheric tides. These tides are produced by the absorption of solar radiation by water vapor in the troposphere, and by ozone in the stratosphere. The strongest tides are the semi-diurnal tides (period of 12 h) with maximum pressure at 9am/9pm and minimum pressure at 3am/3pm. Given the proliferation of smartphones around the globe, this source of environmental data may become extremely useful for scientific research in the near future.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
Volume	174
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2018.04.015
State	Published - Sep 2018

Keywords

Atmospheric pressure
Crowd sourcing
Smartphones
Tides

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Geophysics
Atmospheric Science
Space and Planetary Science

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