期刊
JOURNAL OF GEODYNAMICS
卷 88, 期 -, 页码 14-22出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jog.2015.04.005
关键词
Local Green's function; Site-dependent load Love number; Surface deformation; Hydrological loading; Scatter plot
资金
- Science Foundation of Ireland [11/RFP.1/GEO/3309]
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) [11/RFP.1/GEO/3309] Funding Source: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
The influence of the elastic Earth properties on seasonal or shorter periodic surface deformations due to atmospheric surface pressure and terrestrial water storage variations is usually modeled by applying a local half-space model or an one dimensional spherical Earth model like PREM from which a unique set of elastic load Love numbers, or alternatively, elastic Green's functions are derived. The first model is valid only if load and observer almost coincide, the second model considers only the response of an average Earth structure. However, for surface loads with horizontal scales less than 2500 km(2), as for instance, for strong localized hydrological signals associated with heavy precipitation events and river floods, the Earth elastic response becomes very sensitive to inhomogeneities in the Earth crustal structure. We derive a set of local Green's functions defined globally on a 1 degrees x 1 degrees grid for the 3-layer crustal structure TEA12. Local Green's functions show standard deviations of +/- 12% in the vertical and +/- 21% in the horizontal directions for distances in the range from 0.1 degrees to 0.5 degrees By means of Green's function scatter plots, we analyze the dependence of the load response to various crustal rocks and layer thicknesses. The application of local Green's functions instead of a mean global Green's function introduces a variability of 0.5-1.0 mm into the hydrological loading displacements, both in vertical and in horizontal directions. Maximum changes due to the local crustal structures are from -25% to +26% in the vertical and -91% to +55% in the horizontal displacements. In addition, the horizontal displacement can change its direction significantly. The lateral deviations in surface deformation due to local crustal elastic properties are found to be much larger than the differences between various commonly used one-dimensional Earth models. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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