Effect of Earthquake Preparation on Changes
 in Meteorological Characteristics
 (Based on the Example of the 2003 Chuya Earthquake)

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the effect of the preparation of the Chuya earthquake on September 27,2003, the strongest event in the Altai-Sayan folded region for the entire instrumental period of seismologicalobservations, on meteorological characteristics (temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric chemicalpotential correction, latent heat of evaporation, and the mean and dispersion values of these data) and theirspectral characteristics in the Gorny Altai region. The meteorological and spectral characteristics are shownto change for a certain time before the main shock. The spectral characteristics distinctly change both duringthe preparation of the main shock and during the aftershock process.