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1. ReNovRisk: a multidisciplinary programme to study the cyclonic risks in the South-West Indian Ocean

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Alicia Gonzalez, Sabine Garabedian, Claire Rault, Kevin Samyn, David Nortes-Martinez, Dominique Mekies, Soline Bielli, Guillaume Payen, Gwenaëlle Pennober, Florian Jouvenot, Fabrice R. Fontaine, Christelle Barthe, Joris Pianezze, E. J. Rindraharisaona, Julien Cattiaux, Jean-Lambert Join, Idriss Fontaine, Jean-Pierre Cammas, Pascal Mouquet, Bertrand Aunay, Remi Belon, Fabrice Chauvin, Pierre Tulet, Callum Thompson, François Bonnardot, Franck Gabarrot, Olivier Bousquet, Guilhem Barruol, Hélène Vérèmes, Christophe Révillion, Laboratoire de l'Atmosphère et des Cyclones (LACy), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Météo France-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM), Laboratoire GéoSciences Réunion (LGSR), Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-IPG PARIS-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Météo France, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de La Réunion (OSU-Réunion), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR), Centre national de recherches météorologiques (CNRM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Météo France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Économie et de Management de l'Océan Indien (CEMOI), Université de La Réunion (UR), UMR 228 Espace-Dev, Espace pour le développement, Université de Guyane (UG)-Université des Antilles (UA)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Avignon Université (AU)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France, Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP (UMR_7154)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Météo-France Direction Interrégionale Sud-Est (DIRSE), Météo-France, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Avignon Université (AU)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université de Guyane (UG)-Université des Antilles (UA)

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Tropical cyclone, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph], Atmospheric Science, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Climate change, Structural basin, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Interdisciplinary programme, Indian ocean, Geography, 13. Climate action, Multidisciplinary approach, Natural hazard, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), Cyclone, 14. Life underwater, Cyclonic hazards, Resilience (network), Indian Ocean, Environmental planning, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Water Science and Technology
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Today, resilience in the face of cyclone risks has become a crucial issue for our societies. With climate change, the risk of strong cyclones occurring is expected to intensify significantly and to impact the way of life in many countries. To meet some of the associated challenges, the interdisciplinary ReNovRisk programme aims to study tropical cyclones and their impacts on the South-West Indian Ocean basin. This article is a presentation of the ReNovRisk programme, which is divided into four areas: study of cyclonic hazards, study of erosion and solid transport processes, study of water transfer and swell impacts on the coast, and studies of socio-economic impacts. The first transdisciplinary results of the programme are presented together with the database, which will be open access from mid-2021.

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2021
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2. Velocity structure and radial anisotropy of the lithosphere in southern Madagascar from surface wave dispersion

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E. J. Rindraharisaona, Frederik Tilmann, Georg Rümpker, Xiaohui Yuan, Jörg Giese, Jennifer Dreiling, and Keith Priestley

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Seismic anisotropy, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Geophysics, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Geochemistry and Petrology, Seismic tomography, Surface wave, Lithosphere, Dispersion (optics), Structure of the Earth, Anisotropy, Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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SUMMARYWe investigate the upper mantle seismic structure beneath southern Madagascar and infer the imprint of geodynamic events since Madagascar’s break-up from Africa and India and earlier rifting episodes. Rayleigh and Love wave phase velocities along a profile across southern Madagascar were determined by application of the two-station method to teleseismic earthquake data. For shorter periods (

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2020
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3. Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Inhabited Areas of the SWIO Basin at Present and Future Horizons. Part 2: Modeling Component of the Research Program RENOVRISK-CYCLONE

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Fabrice Chauvin, Olivier Bousquet, Jonas Zucule, Frauke Fleischer-Dogley, Quoc-Phi Duong, Edouard Lees, Romain Husson, Alexis Mouche, Callum Thompson, Emmanuel Cordier, François Bonnardot, Radiance Calmer, Navalona Manitriniana Ravoson, Guilhem Barruol, Vincent Amelie, M. Singh, Julien Cattiaux, Bruno Razafindradina, Nicolas Marquestaut, Sylvie Malardel, Alberto Mavume, Chia-Lun Tsai, Stéphane Ciccione, Dominique Mekies, Soline Bielli, Joris Pianezze, M Claeys, E. J. Rindraharisaona, Christelle Barthe, Lova Zakariasy, Gregory Roberts, Pierre Tulet, Jonathan Durand, Marie-Noëlle Bouin, Laboratoire de l'Atmosphère et des Cyclones (LACy), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Météo France, Laboratoire d'aérologie (LAERO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Institute for Coastal Marine Research (CMR), Nelson Mandela University, Centre national de recherches météorologiques (CNRM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Météo France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Center for Atmospheric REmote Sensing (CARE), Kyungpook National University [Daegu], Direction Interrégionale de Météo-Franc pour l'océan Indien, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Seychelles Meteorological Authority, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-IPG PARIS-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Laboratoire GéoSciences Réunion (LGSR), Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), University of Colorado [Boulder], Kélonia - Observatoire des tortues marines, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de La Réunion (OSU-Réunion), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR), Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF), Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Eduardo Mondlane University, Institut et Observatoire de Géophysique d’Antisiranana (IOGA), Institut Supérieur de Technologie d’Antisiranana, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California-University of California, Mauritius Oceanography Institute, University of Mauritius, Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INAM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Kyungpook National University [Daegu] (KNU), Direction Interrégionale de Météo-France pour l'océan Indien (DIROI), Météo-France, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP (UMR_7154)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO - UC San Diego), and University of California (UC)-University of California (UC)

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Atmospheric Science, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, tropical cyclone, ocean-wave-atmosphere coupling, Climate change, Context (language use), Environmental Science (miscellaneous), 01 natural sciences, Meteorology. Climatology, 14. Life underwater, climate modeling, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, geography, cloud-resolving model, geography.geographical_feature_category, Microphysics, 010505 oceanography, Global warming, ocean–wave–atmosphere coupling, 13. Climate action, Climatology, Archipelago, south-west Indian ocean, Environmental science, Cyclone, Climate model, Tropical cyclone, QC851-999
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International audience; The ReNovRisk-Cyclone program aimed at developing an observation network in the south-west Indian ocean (SWIO) in close synergy with the implementation of numerical tools to model and analyze the impacts of tropical cyclones (TC) in the present and in a context of climate change. This paper addresses the modeling part of the program. First, a unique coupled system to simulate TCs in the SWIO is developed. The ocean–wave–atmosphere coupling is considered along with a coherent coupling between sea surface state, wind field, aerosol, microphysics, and radiation. This coupled system is illustrated through several simulations of TCs: the impact of air–sea flux parameterizations on the evolution of TC Fantala is examined, the full coupling developed during the program is illustrated on TC Idai, and the potential of novel observations like space-borne synthetic aperture radar and sea turtles to validate the atmosphere and ocean models is presented with TC Herold. Secondly, the evolution of cyclonic activity in the SWIO during the second half of the 21st century is assessed. It was addressed both using climate simulation and through the implementation of a pseudo global warming method in the high-resolution coupled modeling platform. Our results suggest that the Mascarene Archipelago should experience an increase of TC related hazards in the medium term.

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2021
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4. Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Inhabited Areas of the SWIO Basin at Present and Future Horizons. Part 1: Overview and Observing Component of the Research Project RENOVRISK-CYCLONE

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Joris Pianezze, M Claeys, E. J. Rindraharisaona, Pierre Tulet, Bruno Razafindradina, Guilhem Barruol, Romain Husson, Callum Thompson, François Bonnardot, Chia-Lun Tsai, Frauke Fleischer-Dogley, Christelle Barthe, Lova Zakariasy, M. Singh, Julien Cattiaux, Nicolas Marquestaut, Alberto Mavume, Fabrice Chauvin, Stéphane Ciccione, Jonas Zucule, Dominique Mekies, Gregory Roberts, Jonathan Durand, Olivier Bousquet, Emmanuel Cordier, Edouard Lees, Alexis Mouche, Radiance Calmer, Vincent Amelie, Soline Bielli, Laboratoire de l'Atmosphère et des Cyclones (LACy), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France, Institute for Coastal Marine Research (CMR), Nelson Mandela University, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP (UMR_7154)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de La Réunion (OSU-Réunion), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR), Laboratoire d'aérologie (LAERO), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), University of Colorado [Boulder], Laboratoire GéoSciences Réunion (LGSR), Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris), Centre national de recherches météorologiques (CNRM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO - UC San Diego), University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Seychelles Meteorological Authority, Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF), Eduardo Mondlane University, Institut Supérieur de Technologie d’Antisiranana, Direction Interrégionale de Météo-France pour l'océan Indien (DIROI), Météo-France, Mauritius Oceanography Institute, University of Mauritius, Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Kélonia - Observatoire des tortues marines, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Météo France, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-IPG PARIS-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Météo France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California-University of California, Direction Interrégionale de Météo-Franc pour l'océan Indien, and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Atmospheric Science, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Meteorology, tropical cyclone, gliders, Satellite system, Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Structural basin, sea turtles, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, seismic data, biologging, Meteorology. Climatology, 14. Life underwater, south-west Indian Ocean, unmanned airborne system, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Atmospheric sounding, [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, global satellite navigation system, ReNovRisk, austral and cyclonic swells, numerical modelling, climate modelling, Drone, Swell, 13. Climate action, GNSS applications, Cyclone, Environmental science, QC851-999, Tropical cyclone
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International audience; The international research program “ReNovRisk-CYCLONE” (RNR-CYC, 2017–2021) directly involves 20 partners from 5 countries of the south-west Indian-Ocean. It aims at improving the observation and modelling of tropical cyclones in the south-west Indian Ocean, as well as to foster regional cooperation and improve public policies adapted to present and future tropical cyclones risk in this cyclonic basin. This paper describes the structure and main objectives of this ambitious research project, with emphasis on its observing components, which allowed integrating numbers of innovative atmospheric and oceanic observations (sea-turtle borne and seismic data, unmanned airborne system, ocean gliders), as well as combining standard and original methods (radiosoundings and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) atmospheric soundings, seismic and in-situ swell sampling, drone and satellite imaging) to support research on tropical cyclones from the local to the basin-scale.

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2021
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5. Cyclone Signatures in the South-West Indian Ocean from Two Decades of Microseismic Noise

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E. J. Rindraharisaona, Fabrice R. Fontaine, Emmanuel Cordier, Guilhem Barruol, Alicia Gonzalez, Laboratoire GéoSciences Réunion (LGSR), Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-IPG PARIS-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Laboratoire de l'Atmosphère et des Cyclones (LACy), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Météo France-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire volcanologique et sismologique de martinique (OVSM), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - CNRS - UBFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), and Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)

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Atmospheric Science, Microseism, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SDU.STU.GP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph], microseismic noise, lcsh:QC851-999, Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Seismic noise, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Wind speed, Seismic wave, 13. Climate action, Wave height, Cyclone, Hindcast, lcsh:Meteorology. Climatology, tropical cyclones, 14. Life underwater, Tropical cyclone, Indian Ocean, Seismology, Geology, wave height, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Tropical Cyclones (TC) represent the most destructive natural disaster affecting the islands in the South-West Indian Ocean (SWIO) each year. Monitoring ocean activity is therefore of primary importance to secure lands, infrastructures and peoples, but the little number of oceanographic instruments makes it challenging, particularly in real time. Long-term seismological records provide a way to decipher and quantify the past cyclonic activity by analyzing microseisms, seismic waves generated by the ocean activity and propagating through the solid Earth. In the present study, we analyze this microseismic noise generated by cyclones that develop in the SWIO basin between 1999 and 2020, using broadband seismic stations in La Réunion. The power spectral density (PSD), together with the root mean square (RMS) analyses of continuous seismic data recorded by the permanent Geoscope RER seismic station, indicate the intensification of the microseismic noise amplitude in proportion to the cyclone intensity. Thus, we establish a relationship between the cyclone intensity and the PSD of the Secondary Microseisms (SM) in frequency band ∼0.14 to 0.25 Hz (4 to 7 s period). The Pearson coefficient between the observed and estimated TC intensity are &gt, 0.8 in the presence of a cyclone with mean wind speeds &gt, 75 km/h and with a seismic station distance-to-storm center D &lt, 3000 km. A polarization analysis in the time and frequency domains allows the retrieval of the backazimuth of the SM sources during isolated cyclone events and well-polarized signal, i.e., CpH &gt, 0.6. We also analyzed the RMS of the Primary Microseisms (PM frequency between ∼0.05 and 0.1 Hz, i.e., for 10 to 20 s period) for cyclones passing nearby La Réunion (D &lt, 500 km), using the available temporary and permanent broadband seismic stations. We also found high correlation coefficients (&gt, 0.8) between the PM amplitude and the local wave height issued from the global hindcast model demonstrating that the PM amplitude can be used as a robust proxy to perform a real-time wave-height monitoring in the neighboring ocean. Transfer functions are calculated for several cyclones to infer wave height from the seismic noise amplitude recorded on land. From the analysis of two decades of data, our results suggest that it is possible to quantify the past ocean activity for as long as continuous seismic archives are available, emphasizing microseismic noise as a key observable for quantifying and understanding the climate change.

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2021
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6. Crustal structure of southern Madagascar from receiver functions and ambient noise correlation: Implications for crustal evolution

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Georg Rümpker, Guilhem Barruol, Gérard Rambolamanana, Frederik Tilmann, Xiaohui Yuan, Jörg Giese, and E. J. Rindraharisaona

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geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Rift, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Continental collision, Subduction, Proterozoic, Continental crust, Archean, Geochemistry, Crust, Geophysics, Sedimentary basin, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Space and Planetary Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), 14. Life underwater, Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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The Precambrian rocks of Madagascar were formed and/or modified during continental collision known as the Pan-African orogeny. Aborted Permo-Triassic Karoo rifting and the subsequent separation from Africa and India resulted in the formation of sedimentary basins in the west and volcanic activity predominantly along the margins. Many geological studies have documented the imprint of these processes, but little was known about the deeper structure. We therefore deployed seismic stations along an SE-NW trending profile spanning nearly all geological domains of southern Madagascar. Here, we focus on the crustal structure, which we determined based on joint analysis of receiver functions and surface waves derived from ambient noise measurements. For the sedimentary basin we document a thinning of the underlying crystalline basement by up to ∼60% to 13 km. The crustal velocity structure demonstrates that the thinning was accomplished by removal or exhumation of the lower crust. Both the Proterozoic and Archean crust have a 10 km thick upper crust and 10-12 km thick midcrust. However, in contrast to the typical structure of Proterozoic and Archean aged crust, the Archean lower crust is thicker and faster than the Proterozoic one, indicating possible magmatic intrusions; an underplated layer of 2-8 km thickness is present only below the Archean crust. The Proterozoic mafic lower crust might have been lost during continental collision by delamination or subduction, or thinned as a result of extensional collapse. Finally, the Cretaceous volcanics along the east coast are characterized by thin crust (30 km) and very large VP/VS ratios.

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2017
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7. Shear velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle of Madagascar derived from surface wave tomography

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G. I. Aleqabi, Patrick J. Shore, Gérard Rambolamanana, Michael E. Wysession, Douglas A. Wiens, Tsiriandrimanana Rakotondraibe, Andrew A. Nyblade, E. J. Rindraharisaona, M. J. Pratt, Guilhem Barruol, Fenitra Andriampenomanana, Robert D. Tucker, Washington University in Saint Louis (WUSTL), Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System-Penn State System, Institut et Observatoire de Géophysique et Astronomie d'Antananarivo, Madagascar (IOGA), University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-IPG PARIS-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Laboratoire GéoSciences Réunion (LGSR), Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, GeoForschungsZentrum - Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam (GFZ), MACOMO project was provided by NSF award EAR-0838426DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) grant SI1538/2-1, ANR-11-BS56-0013,RHUM-RUM,Imagerie mantellique du point chaud de La Réunion(2011), and Washington University in St Louis

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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SDU.STU.GP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph], Volcanism, tomography, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, ambient noise, 01 natural sciences, Geochemistry and Petrology, Asthenosphere, Madagascar, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), surface wave, 14. Life underwater, Shear velocity, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, ambient noise tomography, Crust, Sedimentary basin, Continental fragment, Geophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Magmatism, Intraplate earthquake, intraplate volcanism, Geology, Seismology
Abstract

International audience; The crust and upper mantle of the Madagascar continental fragment remained largely unexplored until a series of recent broadband seismic experiments. An island-wide deployment of broadband seismic instruments has allowed the first study of phase velocity variations, derived from surface waves, across the entire island. Late Cenozoic alkaline intraplate volcanism has occurred in three separate regions of Madagascar (north, central and southwest), with the north and central volcanism active until

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2017
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8. Seismic anisotropy of the lithosphere and asthenosphere beneath southern Madagascar from teleseismic shear wave splitting analysis and waveform modeling

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Miriam Christina Reiss, Frederik Tilmann, Georg Rümpker, Xiaohui Yuan, E. J. Rindraharisaona, and Jörg Giese

Subjects
Seismic anisotropy, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Crust, Shear wave splitting, Geophysics, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Physics::Geophysics, Gondwana, Space and Planetary Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, Asthenosphere, Lithosphere, Surface wave, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), Anisotropy, Geology, Seismology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Madagascar occupies a key position in the assembly and break-up of the supercontinent Gondwana. It has been used in numerous geological studies to reconstruct its original position within Gondwana and to derive plate kinematics. Seismological observations in Madagascar to date have been sparse. Using a temporary, dense seismic profile across southern Madagascar, we present the first published study of seismic anisotropy from shear-wave splitting analyses of teleseismic phases. The splitting parameters obtained show significant small-scale variation of fast polarization directions and delay times across the profile, with fast polarization rotating from NW in the center to NE in the east and west of the profile. The delay times range between 0.4 and 1.5 s. A joint inversion of waveforms at each station is applied to derive hypothetical one-layer splitting parameters. We use finite-difference, full-waveform modelling to test several hypotheses about the origin and extent of seismic anisotropy. Our observations can be explained by asthenospheric anisotropy with a fast polarization direction of 50°, approximately parallel to the absolute plate motion direction, in combination with blocks of crustal anisotropy. Predictions of seismic anisotropy as inferred from global mantle flow models or global anisotropic surface wave tomography are not in agreement with the observations. Small-scale variations of splitting parameters require significant crustal anisotropy. Considering the complex geology of Madagascar, we interpret the change in fast-axis directions as a ~150 km wide zone of ductile deformation in the crust as a result of the intense reworking of lithospheric material during the Pan-African orogeny. This fossil anisotropic pattern is underlain by asthenospheric anisotropy induced by plate motion.

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2016
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9. Seismicity and seismotectonics of Madagascar revealed by the 2011–2013 deployment of the island-wide MACOMO broadband seismic array

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M. J. Pratt, Michael E. Wysession, Andrew A. Nyblade, E. J. Rindraharisaona, Raymond Durrheim, G. I. Aleqabi, Fenitra Andriampenomanana, Georg Rümpker, Tsiriandrimanana Rakotondraibe, Gérard Rambolamanana, and Patrick J. Shore

Subjects
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Seismotectonics, Induced seismicity, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Plate tectonics, Geophysics, Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Seismic array, Hotspot (geology), Shear zone, Seismology, Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes
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The seismicity and seismotectonics of Madagascar have been studied using an island-wide distribution of broadband seismic stations. The 28-station MAdagascar-COmoros-MOzambique (MACOMO) array was deployed for a 23-month period between 2011 and 2013. MACOMO data were supplemented by seven temporary stations from the Seismological Signatures in the Lithosphere/Asthenosphere system of Southern Madagascar (SELASOMA) project, ten temporary stations from the Reunion Hotspot and Upper Mantle - Reunions Unterer Mantel project (RHUM-RUM), and 11 permanent stations. A total of 695 earthquakes with magnitudes between ML1 and ML5.3 located within Madagascar were recorded, a new local magnitude scale was developed, and focal mechanisms were determined for 23 well-recorded events. Most of the seismicity is clustered within central Madagascar, forming NW-SE trends in the Ankaratra region and NE-SW trends in the Alaotra and Ankay regions that roughly align with extensional tectonic features. The northern and southern parts of Madagascar also show seismicity clusters that align parallel to existing tectonic features, primarily Precambrian shear zones. Focal mechanisms exhibit a wide orientation of nodal planes, show predominantly normal faulting throughout Madagascar, and provide no evidence for a sharp east-west striking plate boundary between the Lwandle and Somalian plates in the middle of the island. However, a diffuse plate boundary cannot be excluded. We suggest that topographically-generated extensional stresses is the cause of most seismicity, given that significantly fewer earthquakes are located in the lower elevation areas of the island compared to regions of higher elevations. The frequency-magnitude distribution has a b-value of ~1.2 and indicates that events with magnitude ML5 or greater should occur with an average repeat time of ~1.4 years. However, no earthquake exceeding ML6 has been recorded in the last century, suggesting that the frequency-magnitude distribution could be truncated.

Published
2020
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10. Crustal Radial Anisotropy and Linkage to Geodynamic Processes: A Study Based on Seismic Ambient Noise in Southern Madagascar

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Georg Rümpker, Jörg Giese, Jennifer Dreiling, E. J. Rindraharisaona, Frederik Tilmann, Xiaohui Yuan, Michael E. Wysession, and Publikationen aller GIPP-unterstützten Projekte, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum

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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Ambient noise level, Linkage (mechanical), 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Geophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, law, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), Anisotropy, Geology, Seismology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

We determined radial anisotropy in the crust of southern Madagascar from the differences between the speeds of vertically and horizontally polarized shear waves (VSV and VSH), which we derived from Rayleigh and Love wave dispersion determined from seismic ambient noise correlations. The amalgamated Precambrian units in the east and the Phanerozoic Morondava basin in the west of southern Madagascar were shaped by different geodynamic processes. The crystalline basement was strongly deformed and metamorphosed to varying degrees during the assembly of Gondwana in the Pan‐African Orogeny, whereas the Morondava basin was completed with the separation of Africa and Madagascar. The different developments are reflected in first‐order differences in the radial anisotropy patterns. In the Precambrian domains, positive anisotropy (VSVVSH) sandwiched in between. The upper crustal anisotropy may reflect shallowly dipping layering within the Archean and adjacent imbricated nappe stacks, whereas the lower crustal anisotropy likely represents fossilized crustal flow during the postorogenic or synorogenic collapse of the Pan‐African Orogen. The negative anisotropy layer may have preserved vertically oriented large shear zones of late Pan‐African age. Within the Morondava basin, negative anisotropy in the uppermost ∼5 km could have been generated by steep normal faults, jointing, and magmatic dike intrusions. The deeper sediments and underlying crustal basement are characterized by positive anisotropy. This is consistent with horizontal bedding in the sediments and with fabric alignment in the basement created by extension during the basin formation.

Published
2018
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