Seismic Ambient Noise

Abstract

The seismic ambient field allows us to study interactions between the atmosphere, the oceans, and the solid Earth. The theoretical understanding of seismic ambient noise has improved substantially over recent decades, and the number of its applications has increased dramatically. With chapters written by eminent scientists from the field, this book covers a range of topics including ambient noise observations, generation models of their physical origins, numerical modeling, and processing methods. The later chapters focus on applications in imaging and monitoring the internal structure of the Earth, including interferometry for time-dependent imaging and tomography. This volume thus provides a comprehensive overview of this cutting-edge discipline for graduate students studying geophysics and for scientists working in seismology and other imaging sciences. NORI NAKATA is a principal research scientist in geophysics at the Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the Mendenhall Prize from the Colorado School of Mines in 2013 and the Young Scientist Award from the Seismo-logical Society of Japan in 2017. His research interests include crustal and global seismology, exploration geophysics, volcanology, and civil engineering. LUCIA GUALTIERI is a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University , mainly interested in studying the coupling between the solid Earth and the other Earth systems, and in using seismic signals to image the Earth's structure. ANDREAS FICHTNER is a professor leading the Seismology and Wave Physics Group at ETH Zürich. His research interests include inverse theory and tomogra-phy, numerical wave propagation, effective medium theory, and seismic interfer-ometry. He received early career awards from the AGU and the IUGG, and is the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant. He serves as a consultant in the development of Salvus (a suite of full waveform modeling and inversion software) with a focus on seismic and seismological applications.