Characterising the New Zealand ambient seismic noise field: An oceanographic interpretation of western North Island spectra and beamforming results

Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society 2009 - Acoustics 2009: Research to Consulting

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 328-332

  Brooks, Laura A ^a   Townend, John ^a   Gerstoft, Peter ^b   Bannister, Stephen ^c   Carter, Lionel ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; BEAM FORMERS; EPISODIC EVENTS; GEOGRAPHIC ISOLATION; NEW ZEALAND; NOISE FIELDS; NONLINEAR OCEAN WAVES; PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; SEA FLOOR; SEISMIC NOISE; SHALLOW-WATER; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SPECTROGRAMS; SURFACE WAVE VELOCITY; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; WAVE CHARACTERISTICS; WAVE CLIMATES; WAVE FREQUENCIES; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVEFIELDS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BEAMFORMING; EARTHQUAKES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 84867810660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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