Directionality analysis and Rayleigh wave tomography of ambient seismic noise in southern Norway

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 287-300

  Köhler, Andreas ^a   Weidle, Christian ^a   Maupin, Valérie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Europe; Interferometry; Seismic tomography; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; ANALYSIS OF DATA; AZIMUTHAL DISTRIBUTIONS; BROAD-BAND DATA; COAST LINES; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CROSS-CORRELATION FUNCTION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA SETS; DISPERSION CURVES; EUROPE; GROUP VELOCITIES; LOCAL SURFACES; LOW QUALITIES; MEASUREMENT TIME; MOHO DEPTH; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHORT PERIODS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SOURCE AREA; SOUTHERN NORWAY; SUMMER MONTHS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; TIME WINDOWS; TIME-PERIODS; VERTICAL COMPONENT; WAVE GROUP; WAVEFIELDS; WINTER MONTHS;

DISPERSION (WAVES); INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT VELOCITY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AMBIENT NOISE; AZIMUTH; BROADBAND DATA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; INTERFEROMETRY; MOHO; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SURFACE WATER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

NORWAY;

EID: 78650091394     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04830.x     Document Type: Article

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