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Apparent attenuation and dispersion arising in seismic body-wave velocity retrieval

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The fact that seismologists often make measurements, using natural seismic solicitations, of properties of the Earth on rather large scales (laterally and in terms of depth) has led to interrogations as to whether attenuation of body waves is dispersive and even significant. The present study, whose aim is to clarify these complicated issues, via a controlled thought mea- surement, concerns the retrieval of a single, real body wave velocity of a simple geophysical configuration (involving two homogeneous, isotropic, non-dissipative media, one occupying the layer, the other the substratum, from its simulated response to pulsed plane wave probe ra- diation. This inverse problem is solved, at all frequencies within the bandwidth of the pulse. Due to discordance between the models associated with the assumed and trial responses, the imaginary part of the retrieved velocity turns out to be non-nil even when both the layer and substratum are non-lossy, and, in fact, to be all the greater, the larger is the discordance. The reason for this cannot be due to intrinsic attenuation, scattering, or geometrical spreading since these phenomena are absent in the chosen thought experiment, but rather to uncertainty in the measurement model.
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hal-01297621 , version 1 (04-04-2016)

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Armand Wirgin. Apparent attenuation and dispersion arising in seismic body-wave velocity retrieval. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2016, 173 (7), pp.2473-2488. ⟨10.1007/s00024-016-1283-2⟩. ⟨hal-01297621⟩
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