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Ekström et al. 1997
Ekström, G., Tromp, J. and Larson, E.W.F. (1997). Measurements and global models of surface wave propagation. Journal of Geophysical Research 102: doi: 10.1029/96JB03729. issn: 0148-0227.

A new technique for making single-station phase velocity measurements is developed and applied to a large number of globally recorded Rayleigh and Love waves in the period range 35--150 s. The method is based on phase-matched filter theory and iteratively suppresses the effect of interfering overtones by minimizing residual dispersion. The model surface wave signal is described by its amplitude and apparent phase velocity, both of which are parameterized in terms of smooth B-spline functions of frequency. A misfit function is constructed which represents the difference between the model and observed waveforms, and the optimal spline coefficients are estimated in an iterative misfit minimization algorithm. In order to eliminate cycle skips in the measurements of phase at short periods, the waveforms are first matched at long periods, and the frequency range is gradually extended to include higher frequencies. The application of the algorithm to records from the Global Seismographic Network, using earthquakes in the Harvard centroid-moment tensor catalog, results in the determination of more than 50,000 high-quality dispersion curves. The observed variations in measured dispersion for pairwise similar paths are used to estimate realistic uncertainties in the data. Phase delays at discrete periods are inverted for global maps of variations in phase velocity expanded in spherical harmonics up to degree 40. A realistic resolution test indicates that structures are well recovered up to at least degree 20. The new phase velocity maps explain 70--96% of the observed variance in phase residuals, reflecting the high internal consistency of the dispersion measurements.¿ 1997 American Geophysical Union

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Keywords
Seismology, Surface waves and free oscillations
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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