TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hetenyi, Gyorgy
A1  - Molinari, Irene
A1  - Clinton, John
A1  - Bokelmann, Gotz
A1  - Bondar, Istvan
A1  - Crawford, Wayne C.
A1  - Dessa, Jean-Xavier
A1  - Doubre, Cecile
A1  - Friederich, Wolfgang
A1  - Fuchs, Florian
A1  - Giardini, Domenico
A1  - Graczer, Zoltan
A1  - Handy, Mark R.
A1  - Herak, Marijan
A1  - Jia, Yan
A1  - Kissling, Edi
A1  - Kopp, Heidrun
A1  - Korn, Michael
A1  - Margheriti, Lucia
A1  - Meier, Thomas
A1  - Mucciarelli, Marco
A1  - Paul, Anne
A1  - Pesaresi, Damiano
A1  - Piromallo, Claudia
A1  - Plenefisch, Thomas
A1  - Plomerova, Jaroslava
A1  - Ritter, Joachim
A1  - Rumpker, Georg
A1  - Sipka, Vesna
A1  - Spallarossa, Daniele
A1  - Thomas, Christine
A1  - Tilmann, Frederik
A1  - Wassermann, Joachim
A1  - Weber, Michael
A1  - Weber, Zoltan
A1  - Wesztergom, Viktor
A1  - Zivcic, Mladen
A1  - Abreu, Rafael
A1  - Allegretti, Ivo
A1  - Apoloner, Maria-Theresia
A1  - Aubert, Coralie
A1  - Besancon, Simon
A1  - de Berc, Maxime Bes
A1  - Brunel, Didier
A1  - Capello, Marco
A1  - Carman, Martina
A1  - Cavaliere, Adriano
A1  - Cheze, Jerome
A1  - Chiarabba, Claudio
A1  - Cougoulat, Glenn
A1  - Cristiano, Luigia
A1  - Czifra, Tibor
A1  - Danesi, Stefania
A1  - Daniel, Romuald
A1  - Dannowski, Anke
A1  - Dasovic, Iva
A1  - Deschamps, Anne
A1  - Egdorf, Sven
A1  - Fiket, Tomislav
A1  - Fischer, Kasper
A1  - Funke, Sigward
A1  - Govoni, Aladino
A1  - Groschl, Gidera
A1  - Heimers, Stefan
A1  - Heit, Ben
A1  - Herak, Davorka
A1  - Huber, Johann
A1  - Jaric, Dejan
A1  - Jedlicka, Petr
A1  - Jund, Helene
A1  - Klingen, Stefan
A1  - Klotz, Bernhard
A1  - Kolinsky, Petr
A1  - Kotek, Josef
A1  - Kuhne, Lothar
A1  - Kuk, Kreso
A1  - Lange, Dietrich
A1  - Loos, Jurgen
A1  - Lovati, Sara
A1  - Malengros, Deny
A1  - Maron, Christophe
A1  - Martin, Xavier
A1  - Massa, Marco
A1  - Mazzarini, Francesco
A1  - Metral, Laurent
A1  - Moretti, Milena
A1  - Munzarova, Helena
A1  - Nardi, Anna
A1  - Pahor, Jurij
A1  - Pequegnat, Catherine
A1  - Petersen, Florian
A1  - Piccinini, Davide
A1  - Pondrelli, Silvia
A1  - Prevolnik, Snjezan
A1  - Racine, Roman
A1  - Regnier, Marc
A1  - Reiss, Miriam
A1  - Salimbeni, Simone
A1  - Santulin, Marco
A1  - Scherer, Werner
A1  - Schippkus, Sven
A1  - Schulte-Kortnack, Detlef
A1  - Solarino, Stefano
A1  - Spieker, Kathrin
A1  - Stipcevic, Josip
A1  - Strollo, Angelo
A1  - Sule, Balint
A1  - Szanyi, Gyongyver
A1  - Szucs, Eszter
A1  - Thorwart, Martin
A1  - Ueding, Stefan
A1  - Vallocchia, Massimiliano
A1  - Vecsey, Ludek
A1  - Voigt, Rene
A1  - Weidle, Christian
A1  - Weyland, Gauthier
A1  - Wiemer, Stefan
A1  - Wolf, Felix
A1  - Wolyniec, David
A1  - Zieke, Thomas
T1  - The AlpArray seismic network
BT  - a large-scale european experiment to image the alpine orogen
JF  - Surveys in Geophysics
N2  - The AlpArray programme is a multinational, European consortium to advance our understanding of orogenesis and its relationship to mantle dynamics, plate reorganizations, surface processes and seismic hazard in the Alps-Apennines-Carpathians-Dinarides orogenic system. The AlpArray Seismic Network has been deployed with contributions from 36 institutions from 11 countries to map physical properties of the lithosphere and asthenosphere in 3D and thus to obtain new, high-resolution geophysical images of structures from the surface down to the base of the mantle transition zone. With over 600 broadband stations operated for 2 years, this seismic experiment is one of the largest simultaneously operated seismological networks in the academic domain, employing hexagonal coverage with station spacing at less than 52 km. This dense and regularly spaced experiment is made possible by the coordinated coeval deployment of temporary stations from numerous national pools, including ocean-bottom seismometers, which were funded by different national agencies. They combine with permanent networks, which also required the cooperation of many different operators. Together these stations ultimately fill coverage gaps. Following a short overview of previous large-scale seismological experiments in the Alpine region, we here present the goals, construction, deployment, characteristics and data management of the AlpArray Seismic Network, which will provide data that is expected to be unprecedented in quality to image the complex Alpine mountains at depth.
KW  - Seismology
KW  - Alps
KW  - Seismic network
KW  - Geodynamics
KW  - Seismic imaging
KW  - Mountain building
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-018-9472-4
SN  - 0169-3298
SN  - 1573-0956
VL  - 39
IS  - 5
SP  - 1009
EP  - 1033
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gassner, Alexandra
A1  - Thomas, Christine
A1  - Krüger, Frank
A1  - Weber, Michael H.
T1  - Probing the core-mantle boundary beneath Europe and Western Eurasia: A detailed study using PcP
JF  - Physics of the earth and planetary interiors
N2  - We use PcP (the core reflected P phase) recordings of deep earthquakes and nuclear explosions from the Grafenberg (Germany) and NORSAR (Norway) arrays to investigate the core-mantle boundary region beneath Europe and western Eurasia. We find evidence for a previously unknown ultra-low velocity zone 600 km south-east of Moscow, located at the edge of a middle-size low shear- velocity region imaged in seismic tomography that is located beneath the Volga river region. The observed amplitude variations of PcP can be modelled by velocity reductions of P and S-waves of -5% and -15%, respectively, with a density increase of +15%. Travel time delays of pre-and postcursors are indicating a thickness of about 13 km for this ultra-low velocity region (ULVZ). However, our modelling also reveals highly ambiguous amplitude variations of PcP and a reflection off the top of the anomaly for various ULVZs and topography models. Accordingly, large velocity contrasts of up to -10% in V-P and -20% in Vs cannot be excluded. In general, the whole Volga river region shows a complex pattern of PcP amplitudes caused most likely by CMB undulations. Further PcP probes beneath Paris, Kiev and northern Italy indicate likely normal CMB conditions, whereas the samples below Finland and the Hungary-Slovakia border yield strongly amplified PcP signals suggesting strong CMB topography effects.
 We evaluate the amplitude behaviour of PcP as a function of distance and several ULVZ models using the 1D reflectivity and the 2D Gauss beam method. The influence of the velocity and density perturbations is analysed as well as the anomaly thickness, the dominant period of the source wavelet and interface topographies. Strong variation of the PcP amplitude are obtained as a function of distance and of the impedance contrast. We also consider two types of topographies: undulations atop the CMB in the presence of flat ULVZs and vice versa. Where a broad range of CMB topography dimensions lead to large PcP amplitude variations, only large ULVZ undulations generate significant amplitude scattering. Consequently, this indicates that topography effects of anomalies may mask the true medium parameters as well as the ULVZ thickness. Moreover, there might be a possibility of misinterpreting the precursor as PcP, in particular for thin ULVZs. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW  - Core-mantle boundary
KW  - Ultra-low velocity zones
KW  - Seismology
KW  - Amplitude and waveform analysis of PcP
KW  - Earthquakes
KW  - Nuclear explosions
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2015.06.007
SN  - 0031-9201
SN  - 1872-7395
VL  - 246
SP  - 9
EP  - 24
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -