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Estimation of seawater movement based on reflectors from a seismic profile

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Seismic oceanography is a new cross-discipline of reflection seismology and physical oceanography. The biggest difference between seismic oceanography and traditional reflection seismology is its research object of time-varied seawater. How to estimate the temporal variations of reflectors in water structure and make some corrections in seismic data are basic problems in seismic oceanography research. Here a method of estimation for seawater movement is provided based on the reflectors. The application results of this method to the simulated and field seismic data turn out to be acceptable. As compared with the previous research, this method has the advantages of low-dependence on migration velocity and dip of reflectors, and it is very suitable for correction in a spectral analysis using seismic data, which is very useful in the research of ocean energy budget.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources Research, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Xinghui Huang, Haibin Song, Yang Bai, Jiangxin Chen & Boran Liu

  2. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100049, China

    Xinghui Huang, Yang Bai, Jiangxin Chen & Boran Liu

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Foundation item: The National Major Fundamental Research and Development Project of China under contract No. 2011CB403503; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41076024 and 91028002.

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Huang, X., Song, H., Bai, Y. et al. Estimation of seawater movement based on reflectors from a seismic profile. Acta Oceanol. Sin. 31, 46–53 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-012-0235-7

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