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Comparative Study on Separation Method of Attenuation Quality Factor  

Chung, Tae-Woong (Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Sejong University)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.12, no.4, 2009 , pp. 281-288 More about this Journal
Abstract
Using analytical method, intrinsic absorption and scattering attenuation was lately separated from total quality factor $(Q^{-1}_t)$ on the seismic data of Korean Peninsula. However, we should use numerical method rather than the analytical method to consider depth dependent structure of scattering. The direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method, as a kind of the numerical method, is good option due to its extended availability from 1 to 3-dimensional model; but there is few study to use it. In this paper, we introduced the analytical method and the DSMC method, and compared the results of the two analysis applied to the isotropic scattering model. While the scattering attenuation coefficients $(\eta_s)$ are identical, the intrinsic absorption coefficients $(\eta_i)$ for the analytical method are larger than those for DSMC method and have large errors. In addition, the $(Q^{-1}_t)$ by the previous studies show closer to DSMC method than analytical method.
Keywords
Korean Peninsula; intrinsic absorption; scattering attenuation; the analytical method; the DSMC method;
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