Excitation of long-period Rayleigh waves by large storms over the North Atlantic Ocean

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 330-338

  Kurrle, Dieter ^a,c   Widmer Schnidrig, Rudolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b Black Forest Observatory (BFO)   (Germany)

^c Landesamt fur Geologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

BROAD BANDS; CALIFORNIA; EARTH'S FREE OSCILLATION; FREE OSCILLATION; FREQUENCY RANGES; GERMANY; GROUND MOTIONS; LOWER FREQUENCIES; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN WAVES; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC NOISE;

OCEANOGRAPHY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STORMS; SURFACE WAVES;

WATER WAVES;

GROUND MOTION; OCEAN WAVE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC NOISE; STORM; SURFACE WAVE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CALIFORNIA; GERMANY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78349276187     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04723.x     Document Type: Article

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