High-frequency P-wave seismic noise driven by ocean winds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Jian ^a   Gerstoft, Peter ^a   Shearer, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY BEAMFORMING; CALIFORNIA; COMPRESSIONAL WAVES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MOJAVE DESERT; OCEAN WINDS; OCEAN-WAVE ENERGY; OFFSHORE WIND SPEED; P-WAVES; REMOTE SITES; SEISMIC BACKGROUND NOISE; SEISMIC NOISE;

OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

COUPLING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OCEAN WAVE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC NOISE; SURFACE WAVE; VIBRATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND FORCING; WIND VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA; MOJAVE DESERT; NORTH AMERICA; PARKFIELD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68249149184     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037761     Document Type: Article

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