George Helffrich, James Wookey, Ian Bastow

The Seismic Analysis Code

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Seismic Analysis Code (SAC) is one of the most widely used analysis packages for regional and teleseismic seismic data. For the first time, this book provides users at introductory and advanced levels with a complete guide to SAC. It leads new users of SAC through the steps of learning basic commands, describes the SAC processing philosophy, and presents its macro language in full, supported throughout with example inputs and outputs from SAC. For more experienced practitioners, the book describes SAC's many hidden features, including advanced graphics aspects, its file structure, how to write independent programs to access and create files, and much more. Tutorial exercises engage users with newly acquired skills, providing data and code to implement the standard methods of teleseismic shear-wave splitting and receiver function analysis. Methodical and authoritative, this is a key resource for researchers and graduate students in global seismology, earthquake seismology and geophysics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781107613195
• ISBN-10: 1107613191
• Artikelnr.: 38613403

Autorenporträt

George Helffrich is a Professor of Seismology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. His research interests include using observational seismology to study features of the crust, mantle and core. Recently, he has based his analysis techniques on large-scale seismic array data, using SAC as the primary seismological data analysis tool. Before embarking on his research career, Professor Helffrich was a programmer who developed and supported mainframe operating systems. Bringing this experience to the seismological realm, he has contributed to the development of SAC for over twenty years.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. SAC data format; 3. SAC processing philosophy; 4. Basic SAC commands; 5. SAC macros; 6. Accessing SAC functionality and data from external programs; 7. Graphical data annotation; 8. Array data handling; 9. Spectral estimation in SAC; 10. 3D data in SAC; 11. Implementation of common processing methodologies using SAC; Appendix A. Alphabetical list of SAC commands; Appendix B. Keyword in context for SAC command descriptions; References; Index.