Global oceanic microseism sources as seen by seismic arrays and predicted by wave action models

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hillers, G ^a   Graham, N ^b   Campillo, M ^a   Kedar, S ^c   Landes M ^d   Shapiro, N ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d ACEA DAM DIF   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

microseisms; noise seasonality; noise source; seismic noise; wave action models

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; EXCITED STATES; OCEAN CURRENTS;

MICROSEISMS; NOISE SOURCE; SEASONALITY; SEISMIC NOISE; WAVE ACTION MODELS;

SEISMOLOGY;

AMBIENT NOISE; ARRAY; CORRELATION; DATA SET; HOT SPOT; MICROTREMOR; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OPEN OCEAN; SEA STATE; SEISMIC NOISE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; WAVE ACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84856521453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003875     Document Type: Article

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