Broadband seismology and noise under the ocean

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 105-142

  Webb, Spahr C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMOLOGY; SUBMARINE SURVEY;

BOREHOLES; ELASTIC WAVES; OBSERVATORIES; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WATERS;

GEOGRAPHICAL VARIABILITY; HIGHER NOISE LEVELS; NONLINEAR COUPLING; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; SEAFLOOR OBSERVATORIES; TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES; WAVE CLIMATOLOGIES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031860387     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97RG02287     Document Type: Article

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