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AtmoScopeInterdisciplinary Research Using Broadband BarometersCo-located with EarthScope SeismometersAndreas MuschinskiParos Professor of Measurement Sciences—University of MassachusettsAtmospheric pressure and infrasound signals often carry seismic information, andatmospheric information is often contained in seismometer measurements.Interestingly, however, much of this interface between seismology andatmospheric science is still virgin territory. Here we propose the AtmoScopeprogram, the observational centerpiece of which will be an array of severalhundred state-of-the-art, broadband barometers collocated with the seismometersof the 70-km grid, Transportable Array of the NSF-funded EarthScope program.The AtmoScope observations will be of mutual benefit for scientists and engineersin geophysics, atmospheric physics, operational meteorology, and related areas.The AtmoScope program will foster disciplinary and interdisciplinary research onthe following topics:Paroscientific, Inc.