Improved statistical processing for common-conversion-point stacked receiver functions

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 2 A, 2009, Pages 914-921

  Leahy, Garrett M ^a   Collins, John A ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; ANALYSIS OF DATA; DATA QUALITY; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISPERSIONS; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OCEANIC REGIONS; RAY PATHS; REAL STRUCTURE; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; RF PULSE; SEISMIC ARRAYS; STATISTICAL PROCESSING; TELESEISMIC RECEIVER FUNCTIONS; UPPER MANTLE;

OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AMBIENT NOISE; AMPLITUDE; CORRELATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA QUALITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; RAY TRACING; STACKING; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPPER MANTLE;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; ASIA; COOK ISLANDS; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; RAROTONGA;

EID: 67649990279     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080263     Document Type: Article

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