Automated determination of P-phase arrival times at regional and local distances using higher order statistics

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1159-1170

  Kuperkoch L ^a   Meier, T ^b   Lee, J ^a   Friederich, W ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body waves; Early warning; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ARRIVAL TIME; AUTOMATION; BODY WAVE; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; ESTIMATION METHOD; P-WAVE; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SKEWNESS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953098951     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04570.x     Document Type: Article

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