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7 - Correlations and Ambient Noise

from Part II - Correlation Wavefields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2020

Brian L. N. Kennett
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
Andreas Fichtner
Affiliation:
ETH Zurich
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An important recent development has been the exploitation of the seismic noise field by the use of correlations between seismograms recorded at different positions. We discuss the nature of the ambient noise field, which is dominated by microseismic signals generated in the oceans. The dominant component of the correlation field comes from surface waves, and cross-correlation procedures can extract an empirical Green’s function representing propagation along the path between the stations being correlated.Such results are widely exploited in ambient noise tomography. In some circumstances body waves can also be extracted from the noise field.

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Exploiting Seismic Waveforms
Correlation, Heterogeneity and Inversion
, pp. 157 - 178
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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