Estimation of surface wave Green's functions from correlation of direct waves, coda waves, and ambient noise in SE Tibet

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 177, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 1-11

  Yao, Huajian ^a   Campman, Xander ^b   de Hoop, Maarten V ^c   van der Hilst, Robert D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient noise; Beamforming; Coda; Empirical Green's function; Seismic interferometry; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; BROAD BANDS; CODA; CODA WAVES; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CROSS-CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIRECT WAVES; DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS; EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTION; EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; GROUND MOTIONS; INFLUENCE SURFACES; MEDIUM HETEROGENEITY; PLANE WAVE; REGIONAL SCALE; SCALE LENGTH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEISMIC INTERFEROMETRY; SOURCE DISTRIBUTION; TIME PROPERTIES; TOMOGRAPHIC VELOCITY; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; WAVEFIELDS;

BEAMFORMING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES; WINDOWS;

GREEN'S FUNCTION;

AMBIENT NOISE; CODA; CORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GREEN FUNCTION; GROUND MOTION; HETEROGENEITY; INTERFEROMETRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SURFACE WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE FIELD;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

EID: 70349792427     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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