All Outputs (85)

Estimating Geostrophic Shear from Seismic Images of Oceanic Structure (2011)
Journal Article
Sheen, K. L., White, N., Caulfield, C. P., & Hobbs, R. W. (2011). Estimating Geostrophic Shear from Seismic Images of Oceanic Structure. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 28(9), 1149-1154. https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-10-05012.1

It is shown that geostrophic vertical shear estimates can be recovered from seismic (i.e., acoustic) images of thermohaline structure. In the Southern Ocean, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current forms a loop within the Falkland Trough before it flows no... Read More about Estimating Geostrophic Shear from Seismic Images of Oceanic Structure.

Re-evaluation of the Mentelle Basin, a polyphase rifted margin basin, offshore southwest Australia: new insights from integrated regional seismic datasets (2011)
Journal Article
Maloney, D., Sargent, C., Direen, N., Hobbs, R., & Gröcke, D. (2011). Re-evaluation of the Mentelle Basin, a polyphase rifted margin basin, offshore southwest Australia: new insights from integrated regional seismic datasets. Solid Earth, 2(2), 107-123. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-2-107-2011

Vintage 2-D (two-dimensional) seismic reflection surveys from the sparsely explored Mentelle Basin (western Australian margin) have been reprocessed and integrated with a recent high-quality 2-D seismic survey and stratigraphic borehole data. Interpr... Read More about Re-evaluation of the Mentelle Basin, a polyphase rifted margin basin, offshore southwest Australia: new insights from integrated regional seismic datasets.

Improving the interpretability of air-gun seismic reflection data using deterministic filters: A case history from offshore Cape Leeuwin, south-west Australia (2011)
Journal Article
Sargent, C., Hobbs, R., & Gröcke, D. (2011). Improving the interpretability of air-gun seismic reflection data using deterministic filters: A case history from offshore Cape Leeuwin, south-west Australia. Geophysics, 76(3), B113-B125. https://doi.org/10.1190/1.3554396

To identify drilling targets for an Integrated Ocean Drilling Program project to investigate high-latitude black shales required reinterpretation of legacy seismic data. The original processing had identified the major structures but was of insuffici... Read More about Improving the interpretability of air-gun seismic reflection data using deterministic filters: A case history from offshore Cape Leeuwin, south-west Australia.

Reconstructing flood basalt lava flows in three dimensions using terrestrial laser scanning (2011)
Journal Article
Nelson, C. E., Jerram, D. A., Hobbs, R. W., Terrington, R., & Kessler, H. (2011). Reconstructing flood basalt lava flows in three dimensions using terrestrial laser scanning. Geosphere, 7(1), 87-96. https://doi.org/10.1130/ges00582.1

Some improvements in subbasalt imaging using pre-stack depth migration (2011)
Journal Article
Flecha, I., Carbonell, R., Hobbs, R., & Zeyen, H. (2011). Some improvements in subbasalt imaging using pre-stack depth migration. Solid Earth, 2(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-2-1-2011

Subbasalt imaging can be improved by carefully applying pre-stack depth migration. Pre-stack depth migration requires a detailed velocity model and an accurate traveltime calculation. Ray tracing methods are fast but, often fail in calculating travel... Read More about Some improvements in subbasalt imaging using pre-stack depth migration.

A framework for 3-D joint inversion of MT, gravity and seismic refraction data (2011)
Journal Article
Moorkamp, M., Heincke, B., Jegen, M., Roberts, A., & Hobbs, R. (2011). A framework for 3-D joint inversion of MT, gravity and seismic refraction data. Geophysical Journal International, 184(1), 477-493. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246x.2010.04856.x

We present a 3-D joint inversion framework for seismic, magnetotelluric (MT) and scalar and tensorial gravity data. Using large-scale optimization methods, parallel forward solvers and a flexible implementation in terms of model parametrization allow... Read More about A framework for 3-D joint inversion of MT, gravity and seismic refraction data.

Detecting and characterizing mesoscale and submesoscale structures of Mediterranean water from joint seismic and hydrographic measurements in the Gulf of Cadiz (2010)
Journal Article
Quentel, E., Carton, X., Gutscher, M. -., & Hobbs, R. (2010). Detecting and characterizing mesoscale and submesoscale structures of Mediterranean water from joint seismic and hydrographic measurements in the Gulf of Cadiz. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, Article L06604. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010gl042766

Ocean temperature and salinity inverted from combined hydrographic and seismic data (2010)
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Papenberg, C., Klaeschen, D., Krahmann, G., & Hobbs, R. (2010). Ocean temperature and salinity inverted from combined hydrographic and seismic data. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, Article L04601. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gl042115

Massively parallel forward modeling of scalar and tensor gravimetry data. (2010)
Journal Article
Moorkamp, M., Jegen, M., Roberts, A., & Hobbs, R. (2010). Massively parallel forward modeling of scalar and tensor gravimetry data. Computers and Geosciences, 36(5), 680-686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2009.09.018

We present an approach to calculate scalar and tensor gravity utilizing the massively parallel architecture of consumer graphics cards. Our parametrization is based on rectilinear blocks with constant density within each blocks. This type of parametr... Read More about Massively parallel forward modeling of scalar and tensor gravimetry data..

Stochastic Heterogeneity Mapping around a Mediterranean salt lens (2010)
Journal Article
Buffett, G., Hurich, C., Vsemirnova, E., Hobbs, R., Sallarès, V., Carbonell, R., …Biescas, B. (2010). Stochastic Heterogeneity Mapping around a Mediterranean salt lens. Ocean Science and Discussions, 6(1), 423-429. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-6-423-2010

We present the first application of Stochastic Heterogeneity Mapping based on the band-limited von Kármán function to a seismic reflection stack of a Mediterranean water eddy (meddy), a large salt lens of Mediterranean water. This process extracts tw... Read More about Stochastic Heterogeneity Mapping around a Mediterranean salt lens.

High resolution seismic imaging of the ocean structure using a small volume airgun source array in the Gulf of Cadiz (2009)
Journal Article
Geli, L., Cosquer, E., Hobbs, R., Klaeschen, D., Papenberg, C., Thomas, Y., …Hua, B. (2009). High resolution seismic imaging of the ocean structure using a small volume airgun source array in the Gulf of Cadiz. Geophysical Research Letters, 36, Article L00D09. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gl040820

Estimating internal wave spectra using constrained models of the dynamic ocean (2009)
Journal Article
Vsemirnova, E., Hobbs, R., Serra, N., Klaeschen, D., & Quentel, E. (2009). Estimating internal wave spectra using constrained models of the dynamic ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 36, Article L00D07. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gl039598

Estimating mixing rates from seismic images of oceanic structure (2009)
Journal Article
Sheen, K., White, N., & Hobbs, R. (2009). Estimating mixing rates from seismic images of oceanic structure. Geophysical Research Letters, 36, Article L00D04. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gl040106

Effect of bandwidth on seismic imaging of rotating stratified turbulence surrounding an anticyclonic eddy from field data and numerical simulations (2009)
Journal Article
Menesguen, C., Hua, B., Papenberg, C., Klaeschen, D., Geli, L., & Hobbs, R. (2009). Effect of bandwidth on seismic imaging of rotating stratified turbulence surrounding an anticyclonic eddy from field data and numerical simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 36, Article L00D05. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gl039951

Effect of seismic source bandwidth on reflection sections to image water structure (2009)
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Hobbs, R., Klaeschen, D., Sallares, V., Vsemirnova, E., & Papenberg, C. (2009). Effect of seismic source bandwidth on reflection sections to image water structure. Geophysical Research Letters, 36, Article L00D08. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gl040215

Estimating movement of reflectors in the water column using seismic oceanography (2009)
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Klaeschen, D., Hobbs, R., Krahmann, G., Papenberg, C., & Vsemirnova, E. (2009). Estimating movement of reflectors in the water column using seismic oceanography. Geophysical Research Letters, 36, Article L00D03. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gl038973

Using a local Monte Carlo strategy to assess 1-D velocity models from wide-angle seismic travel-time data and application to the Rockall Trough (2009)
Journal Article
Pearse, S., Hobbs, R., & Bosch, M. (2009). Using a local Monte Carlo strategy to assess 1-D velocity models from wide-angle seismic travel-time data and application to the Rockall Trough. Tectonophysics, 472(1-4), 284-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2008.07.017

Joint inversion of marine magnetotelluric and gravity data incorporating seismic constraints Preliminary results of sub-basalt imaging off the Faroe Shelf (2009)
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Jegen, M. D., Hobbs, R. W., Tarits, P., & Chave, A. (2009). Joint inversion of marine magnetotelluric and gravity data incorporating seismic constraints Preliminary results of sub-basalt imaging off the Faroe Shelf. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 282(1-4), 47-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.02.018

Seismic reflection along the path of the Mediterranean Undercurrent (2009)
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Buffett, G., Biescas, B., Pelegri, J., Machin, F., Sallares, V., Carbonell, R., …Hobbs, R. (2009). Seismic reflection along the path of the Mediterranean Undercurrent. Continental Shelf Research, 29(15), 1848-1860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2009.05.017

Flood basalt facies from borehole data: implications for prospectivity and volcanology in volcanic rifted margins (2009)
Journal Article
Nelson, C. E., Jerram, D. A., & Hobbs, R. W. (2009). Flood basalt facies from borehole data: implications for prospectivity and volcanology in volcanic rifted margins. Petroleum Geoscience, 15(4), 313-324. https://doi.org/10.1144/1354-079309-842

Flood basalt successions cover many. potentially prospective sedimentary basins world-wide, and a few instances exist of intra-basalt petroleum discoveries. However, little is known about the architecture and rock propel-ties of the lava flows, intru... Read More about Flood basalt facies from borehole data: implications for prospectivity and volcanology in volcanic rifted margins.