A theory of the Earth's background free oscillations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2002, Pages

  Fukao, Yoshio ^a   Nishida, Kiwamu ^a   Suda, Naoki ^b   Nawa, Kazunari ^c   Kobayashi, Naoki ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Earth ground noise; Long period seismology; Normal mode theory; Seismic excitation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; NOISE; OSCILLATION; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0037058542     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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