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Volume 50 Supplement 11-12

Special Issue: Ocean Hemisphere network Project (OHP)

MOISE: A pilot experiment towards long term sea-floor geophysical observatories

Earth, Planets and Space volume 50, pages 927–937 (1998)Cite this article

Abstract

We describe the scientific purposes and experimental set-up of an international deployment of a 3 component broadband seismometer package on the ocean floor in Monterey Bay which took place during the summer of 1997. Highlights of this experiment were the installation, performed using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), the underwater connection of the different components of the package, and the successful retrieval of 3 months of broadband seismic and auxiliary data. Examples of recordings of teleseisms and regional earthquakes are presented and the background noise characteristics are discussed, in comparison with those of near-by broadband land sites, current-meter data from the vicinity of the ocean bottom package, as well as pressure data from deeper ocean sites.

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  1. Seismological Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Barbara Romanowicz, Robert Uhrhammer, Michael Pasyanos & Douglas Neuhauser

  2. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, USA

    Debra Stakes, Michael Begnaud & Steven Etchemendy

  3. Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France

    Jean Paul Montagner & Eleonore Stutzmann

  4. Division Technique, Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers, Paris, France

    Jean-Francois Karczewski

  5. Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France

    Pascal Tarits

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Romanowicz, B., Stakes, D., Montagner, J.P. et al. MOISE: A pilot experiment towards long term sea-floor geophysical observatories. Earth Planet Sp 50, 927–937 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03352188

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Keywords

  • Seismic Noise
  • Ocean Bottom
  • Broadband Seismometer
  • Broadband Seismic Station
  • Infragravity Wave