{"id":2342,"date":"2019-03-06T17:01:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T08:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2019-03-08T10:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T01:02:36","slug":"beyond-receiver-functions-greens-function-estimation-by-transdimensional-inversion-and-its-application-to-obs-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/research\/2342\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Receiver Functions: Green’s Function Estimation by Transdimensional Inversion and Its Application to OBS Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Takeshi Akuhara1<\/sup>\u00a0, Michael G. Bostock2<\/sup>\u00a0, Alexandre P. Plourde2<\/sup>, and Masanao Shinohara1<\/sup><\/p>\n

1<\/sup>Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan,\u00a02<\/sup>Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, The
\nUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada<\/p>\n

JGR: Solid Earth\u3000First published:\u00a024 January 2019\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2018JB016499<\/a><\/p>\n

Abstract <\/strong>
\nReceiver functions, calculated by deconvolving P (or vertical) component records of teleseismic waveforms from the corresponding SV (or radial) components, have been widely used to obtain receiver\u2010side Green’s functions in an approximate form. Conventional receiver function methods, however, often fail due to numerical instability of the deconvolution and strong multiples on the P components. These problems become severe when analyzing in high frequency and using data from ocean bottom seismometers (OBSs).
\nWe present a novel technique to estimate Green’s functions of receiver\u2010side structure from teleseismic P waveforms. In this method, two components of Green’s functions, which are assumed to form a series of pulses, are directly related in a single equation without explicit deconvolution. Based on the equation, we construct posterior probability distributions regarding the number of pulses, their timing, and amplitudes within a transdimensional Bayesian framework. A reversible\u2010jump Markov chain Monte Carlo method is used for this purpose, and we further utilize a parallel tempering method to achieve rapid convergence.
\nSynthetic tests and application to an OBS installed at the Yamato Basin, the Sea of Japan, show that the proposed method can estimate radial\u2010component Green’s functions more accurately than conventional receiver function methods. We suggest that the high\u2010frequency Green’s functions estimated by the new method can be used to reveal fine\u2010scale (in order ~100 m) structure of the seafloor sediment.<\/p>\n

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Comparison of R component Green’s functions estimated using different methods, a damped spectral division(top), the iterative deconvolution (middle), and the proposed method (bottom). Black and red traces represent calculated and true Green’s functions, respectively.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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