Quasi-shear wave coupling in weakly anisotropic 3-D media   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

R.T. Coates  C. H. Chapman 《Geophysical Journal International》1990,103(2):301-320

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Generalized Ray Theory for an Inhomogeneous Medium     

C. H. Chapman 《Geophysical Journal International》1974,36(3):673-704

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Combining borehole temperature and meteorologic data to constrain past climate change     

David S. Chapman  Timothy J. Chisholm  Robert N. Harris 《Global and Planetary Change》1992,6(2-4)

Geothermal observations from a suite of boreholes in western Utah, USA, combined with meteorologic data at nearby weather stations are used to test the hypothesis that temperatures in the earths subsurface contain an accurate record of recent climate change. The change in air temperature over the last hundred years successfully predicts detailed subsurface temperature profiles to better than ±0.05°C, indicating that ground temperatures tract air temperatures over long periods and that climate change signals are conducted into, and recorded in, the solid earth by the process of heat conduction. We combine borehole temperature data with meteorologic data from the nearest weather station to determine the time averaged difference between surface ground temperature and surface air temperature for borehole-weather station pairs and to infer the long term mean air temperature prior to the observational record. For our western Utah sites the preobservational mean temperature is close to the average surface air temperature for this century suggesting that up to 0.5°C of warming deduced from the last 100 years of weather station data may be attributed to recovery from a cool period at the turn of the century.  相似文献   

Generalized Born scattering of elastic waves in 3-D media   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Richard T. Coates  C. H. Chapman 《Geophysical Journal International》1991,107(2):231-263

It is well known that when a seismic wave propagates through an elastic medium with gradients in the parameters which describe it (e.g. slowness and density), energy is scattered from the incident wave generating low-frequency partial reflections. Many approximate solutions to the wave equation, e.g. geometrical ray theory (GRT), Maslov theory and Gaussian beams, do not model these signals. The problem of describing partial reflections in 1-D media has been extensively studied in the seismic literature and considerable progress has been made using iterative techniques based on WKBJ, Airy or Langer type ansätze. In this paper we derive a first-order scattering formalism to describe partial reflections in 3-D media. The correction term describing the scattered energy is developed as a volume integral over terms dependent upon the first spatial derivatives (gradients) of the parameters describing the medium and the solution. The relationship we derive could, in principle, be used as the basis for an iterative scheme but the computational expense, particularly for elastic media, will usually prohibit this approach. The result we obtain is closely related to the usual Born approximation, but differs in that the scattering term is not derived from a perturbation to a background model, but rather from the error in an approximate Green's function. We examine analytically the relationship between the results produced by the new formalism and the usual Born approximation for a medium which has no long-wavelength heterogeneities. We show that in such a case the two methods agree approximately as expected, but that in a media with heterogeneities of all wavelengths the new gradient scattering formalism is superior. We establish analytically the connection between the formalism developed here and the iterative approach based on the WKBJ solution which has been used previously in 1-D media. Numerical examples are shown to illustrate the examples discussed.  相似文献   

The Turning Point of Elastodynamic Waves     

C. H. Chapman 《Geophysical Journal International》1974,39(3):613-621

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Grain carriers of isotopic anomalies     

Steven H. Margolis  Sydney W. Falk Jr 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1979,65(1):119-128

The dynamics of grain motion through gas are examined in terms of the injection of isotopically anomalous (compared to solar abundances) material into the early solar nebula. Calculations indicate that the injected grains cannot penetrate to the center of any of a range of reasonable configurations, suggesting the formation of an edge region enriched in injected material. Furthermore, the dynamical behavior of grains in turbulent flows indicates that pockets of grains can have some resistance to turbulent diffusion. The constraints developed here are used to delineate a set of consistent, injected-grain models for the origin of the isotopic anomalies in meteorite inclusions.Invited contribution to the Proceedings of a Workshop onThermodynamics and Kinetics of Dust Formation in the Space Medium held at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, 6–8 September, 1978.  相似文献   

The "So What?" factor     

Chapman PM  Guerra LM 《Marine pollution bulletin》2005,50(12):529-1458

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Seismic excitation of the Chandler wobble revisited     

L. Mansinha  D. E. Smylie  C. H. Chapman 《Geophysical Journal International》1979,59(1):1-17

Summary. An overview is taken of the last decade of studies of the effect of earthquakes on the polar motion. The treatment of the liquid outer core in static deformation is reviewed and some misconceptions in a number of papers are pointed out. Volterra's formula is generalized to the case of a liquid core which does not obey the highly idealized Adams—Williamson density law. The focal mechanism representation of Smylie & Mansinha (1971) is corrected for neglected terms arising from coordinate curvature, bringing the computed polar shifts into near numerical agreement with those of other workers. On the basis of the comparison of the observed and computed polar shifts for the Chile 1960 and Alaska 1964 events, it is suggested that the observed polar shifts for large earthquakes may be useful as discriminators in selecting focal mechanism parameters. The observed level of Chandler wobble excitation provides a constraint on some of the more extreme values of seismic moment recently proposed, unless these are supposed to depend only weakly on magnitude. The cumulative effect of the 30 largest earthquakes in the period 1901–64, recently examined by O'Connell & Dziewonski, is found to yield a rms Chandler wobble excitation of 0".10, using the random walk theory of Mansinha & Smylie (1967). This is close to the observed level (∼ 0".15). In addition to yielding the solution to a very long-standing geophysical puzzle, the study of the effect of earthquakes on the polar motion over the last decade may have produced a useful tool for the elucidation of seismic mechanism.  相似文献   

Time-averaged spectroheliograms     

G. A. Chapman 《Solar physics》1972,26(2):299-304

The great improvement in signal-to-noise as a result of time-averaging a sequence of 6103-core spectroheliograms is shown. It is suggested that such a technique should greatly enhance the network seen on filtergrams made with the 3840 Å violet filter (Chapman, 1970). Finally, the evolution of a sunspot, observed with time-lapse spectroheliograms is discussed.  相似文献   

The Magnetic Field and Energy of an Axisymmetric Van Allen Belt     

S. Chapman  P. C. Kendall  P. N. Swartztrauber  D. W. Windle 《Geophysical Journal International》1968,15(3):317-329

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