Fundamental and higher-mode Rayleigh wave characteristics of ambient seismic noise in New Zealand

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Brooks, Laura A ^a   Townend, John ^a   Gerstoft, Peter ^b   Bannister, Stephen ^c   Carter, Lionel ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; AUSTRAL WINTER; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEEP WATER; DISPERSIVE WAVES; FREQUENCY RANGES; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; MODE SIGNALS; NEW ZEALAND; NOISE FIELDS; OCEAN WAVES; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH DISPERSION CURVES; SOURCE REGION; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES;

SEISMOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEEP WATER; EARTH STRUCTURE; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; MODE WATER; OCEAN WAVE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 71949131541     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040434     Document Type: Article

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