Single station determination of Rayleigh wave ellipticity by using the random decrement technique (RayDec)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Hobiger, M ^a,c   Bard, P Y ^a,c   Cornou, C ^a,c   Le Bihan, N ^b  

^a GIPSA LAB   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; DYNAMIC PARAMETERS; FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY; RANDOM DECREMENT TECHNIQUE; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEISMIC NOISE; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

FLUID DYNAMICS; UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES;

RAYLEIGH WAVES;

AMBIENT NOISE; PARAMETERIZATION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; S-WAVE; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEISMIC NOISE; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 70349599531     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038863     Document Type: Article

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