Ellipticity corrections for seismic phases

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The advent of broad-band seismology has meant that use is being made of a wide range of seismic phases, for many of which ellipticity corrections have not been readily available. In particular, when many seismic phases are used in location schemes, it is important that the systematic effects of ellipticity are included for each phase. An efficient and effective procedure for constructing ellipticity corrections is to make use of the ray-based approach of Dziewonksi & Gilbert (1976), as reformulated by Doornbos (1988), in conjunction with the rapid evaluation of traveltimes and slownesses for a given range using the tau-spline procedure of Buland & Chapman (1983). Ellipticity coefficients have been tabulated for a wide range of seismic phases and are available in electronic form. The ellipticity correction procedures have been extended to include an allowance for diffraction phenomena, for example Pdiff, Sdiff diffracted along the core-mantle boundary. Corrections for additional phases can be generated by building the ellipticity coefficients from suitable combinations of the coefficients for different phase segments.

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Kennett, B. L. N., & Gudmundsson, O. (1996). Ellipticity corrections for seismic phases. Geophysical Journal International, 127(1), 40–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb01533.x

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