A physical-model study of the statistics of seismic waveform fluctuations in random heterogeneous media

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 575-595

  Sivaji, C ^a,d   Nishizawa, O ^a   Kitagawa, G ^b   Fukushima, Y ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous media; Physical model; Scattering wave caustics; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MODELING; SCATTERING; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036128773     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246x.2002.01606.x     Document Type: Article

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