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Parolai et al. 2005
Parolai, S., Picozzi, M., Richwalski, S.M. and Milkereit, C. (2005). Joint inversion of phase velocity dispersion and H/V ratio curves from seismic noise recordings using a genetic algorithm, considering higher modes. Geophysical Research Letters 32: doi: 10.1029/2004GL021115. issn: 0094-8276.

Seismic noise contains information on the local S-wave velocity structure, which can be obtained from the phase velocity dispersion curve by means of array measurements. The H/V ratio from single stations also contains information on the average S-wave velocity and the total thickness of the sedimentary cover. A joint inversion of the two data sets therefore might allow constraining the final model well. We propose a scheme that does not require a starting model because of usage of a genetic algorithm. Furthermore, we tested two suitable cost functions for our data set, using a-priori and data driven weighting. The latter one was more appropriate in our case. In addition, we consider the influence of higher modes on the data sets and use a suitable forward modeling procedure. Using real data we show that the joint inversion indeed allows for better fitting the observed data than using the dispersion curve only.

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Exploration Geophysics, Computational methods, seismic, Seismology, Earthquake ground motions and engineering seismology, Seismology, Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction (1217, 1242), Seismology, Surface waves and free oscillations
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Geophysical Research Letters
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