On reduction of long-period horizontal seismic noise using local barometric pressure

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 780-796

  Zürn, Walter ^a   Exss J ^b   Steffen, H ^c   Kroner, C ^d   Jahr, T ^d   Westerhaus, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b Thinking Objects GmbH   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barometric pressure; Horizontal seismic noise; Modelling; Tilt

Indexed keywords

BAROMETRY; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAVITY WAVE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MODELING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC NOISE; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EID: 35348913140     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03553.x     Document Type: Article

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