Effect of seismic source bandwidth on reflection sections to image water structure

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Hobbs, R W ^a   Klaeschen, D ^b   Sallares V ^c   Vsemirnova, E ^a   Papenberg, C ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c CSIC Unidad de Tecnologia Marina UTM   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY BAND WIDTH; IMPEDANCE CONTRAST; RESEARCH VESSELS; SEISMIC ACQUISITION; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; SEISMIC SOURCE; TEMPERATURE TRANSITION; WATER MASS; WATER STRUCTURE;

BANDWIDTH; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SHIPS;

SEISMOLOGY;

RESEARCH VESSEL; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; WATER MASS;

EID: 72049094260     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040215     Document Type: Article

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