Temperature correction and usefulness of ocean bottom pressure data from cabled seafloor observatories around Japan for analyses of tsunamis, Ocean tides, and low-frequency geophysical phenomena

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1133-1149

  Inazu, Daisuke ^a   Hino, Ryota ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ocean bottom pressure; Ocean tide; Oceanic variation; Temperature correction; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM PRESSURE; ERROR CORRECTION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEAN TIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEAFLOOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TSUNAMI;

JAPAN;

EID: 84861415045     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.07.014     Document Type: Article

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