On the reliability of attenuation measurements from ambient noise cross-correlations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Lin, Fan Chi ^a   Ritzwoller, Michael H ^a   Shen, Weisen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; GREEN'S FUNCTION; SEISMOLOGY;

AMBIENT NOISE; ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS; AZIMUTHAL VARIATIONS; CENTRAL STATIONS; CROSS-CORRELATIONS; EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRICAL SPREADING; LOCAL VARIATIONS; NOISE SOURCE; PROCESSING PROCEDURES; RAYLEIGH WAVE ATTENUATION; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARED; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC EVENT; SPECTRAL WHITENING; SYMMETRIC COMPONENTS; WYOMING;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

AMBIENT NOISE; AZIMUTH; CORRELATION; ERROR CORRECTION; RAYLEIGH WAVE; TIME SERIES; WAVE ATTENUATION;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 79958790151     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047366     Document Type: Article

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