Effects of the density perturbation in scattering

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2004, Pages

  Hong, Tae Kyung ^a   Kennett, B L N ^b   Wu, Ru Shan ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SCATTERING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; GEOPHYSICS;

CODA LEVELS; DENSITY PERTURBATIONS;

GEOPHYSICS; EARTH SCIENCES;

CODA; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE SCATTERING;

DENSITY PERTURBATION; DENSITY VARIATIONS; FREQUENCY SHIFT; INFLUENCE OF DENSITY; SEISMIC PHASIS; SMALL-SCALE HETEROGENEITY; TEMPORAL DECAY; VELOCITY PERTURBATION;

EID: 4544351498     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019933     Document Type: Article

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