Frequency-dependent effects on global S-wave traveltimes: Wavefront-healing, scattering and attenuation

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1025-1042

  Zaroli, Christophe ^a,c   Debayle, Eric ^a   Sambridge, Malcolm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Body waves; Seismic attenuation; Seismic tomography; Wave scattering and diffraction

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; BODY WAVES; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DISTRIBUTED DATA; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT ATTENUATION; HEALING PHENOMENA; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH VELOCITY; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW-VELOCITY ANOMALY; PHYSICAL DISPERSION; S-WAVES; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC PHASIS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SH WAVE; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; TELESEISMIC; TIME WINDOWS; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE FORMS; WAVE SCATTERING AND DIFFRACTION;

DIFFRACTION; DISPERSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFRONTS;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

ALGORITHM; BODY WAVE; DATA SET; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE DIFFRACTION; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 77955127593     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04667.x     Document Type: Article

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