Effects of 3D attenuation on seismic wave amplitude and phase measurements

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1241-1251

  Savage, Brian ^a   Komatitsch, Dimitri ^b   Tromp, Jeroen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE ANOMALIES; ANELASTIC ATTENUATION; ANELASTICITY; ATTENUATION MODEL; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LOCAL SCALE; SEISMIC STUDIES; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD; SPEED MODELS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TRAVEL TIME; UPPER MANTLE;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SEISMIC WAVES;

AMPLITUDE; ANELASTICITY; MODELING; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 77952638302     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090263     Document Type: Article

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