Advances in Geophysics

Earth heterogeneity and scattering effects on seismic waves

Series Editor:
  • Renata Dmowska, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Edited by
  • Haruo Sato, Tohoku University, Sendai-shi, Japan
  • Michael Fehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Audience
graduate students, scientists and engineers of geophysics, physics, acoustics, civil engineering, environmental sciences, geology and planetary sciences.

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Advances in Geophysics

Hardbound, 496 Pages

Published: November 2008

Imprint: Academic Press

ISBN: 978-0-12-374509-5

Contents

  • 1.Geometrical optics of acoustic media with anisometric randomheterogeneities: Travel time statistics of reflected and refracted waves. 2. Monitoring temporal variations of physical properties inside the lithosphere by cross-correlating P and S arrivals and the coda of doublets. 3. Source Effects from Broad Area Network Calibration of Regional Distance Coda Waves. 4. A scattering wave-guide of heterogeneous subducting plate. 5. Coherent Back-scattering and weak Localization of Seismic Waves. 6. Observing and modeling elastic scattering in the deep Earth. 7. Coda Q and coda energy distribution. 8. Synthesis of vector-wave envelopes in random elastic media on the basis of the Markov approximation. 9. Seismic wave scattering in volcanoes.

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