Assessment of S-net seafloor pressure data quality in view of seafloor geodesy

Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Research Article

Hideto Otsuka¹  Ryota Hino¹  Yusaku Ohta¹  Naotaka Y. Chikasada²  Tatsuya Kubota² 

[1] Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-6 Aramaki-Aza-Aoba, Aoba-Ku, 980-8578, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan;National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, 3-1 Tennodai, 305-0006, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan;

关键词: S-net;    Seafloor pressure observation;    OBPR;    Slow slip events;    Pressure–temperature correlation;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40645-022-00526-y

 received in 2022-09-08, accepted in 2022-11-24,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Long-term continuous observation of seafloor pressure is effective for detecting seafloor vertical deformations that are associated with transient tectonic phenomena such as slow slip events. Since the aseismic slip event prior to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, several discoveries have been made on spontaneous slow slip events and various other types of slow earthquake along the Japan and Kuril Trenches. Seafloor observation network for earthquakes and tsunamis along the Japan Trench (S-net) is expected to provide invaluable information on slow slip activities via geodetic signals that are detected by pressure observation. This study inspects the quality of the S-net pressure data in view of seafloor geodesy by comparison with records obtained by more than 100 autonomous ocean bottom pressure recorders (OBPRs) deployed along the Japan Trench. OBPRs have long been standard tools in seafloor geodesy, and the data collected are considered a benchmark in terms of quality. Most of the S-net stations showed noise levels that are considerably higher than those of the OBPRs over periods of more than 2 d. We speculate that a strong correlation between pressure and temperature accounts for much of the long-term noise. In this study, the temperature-dependent fluctuation component was estimated by prediction filtering and removed from the original data, leading to a significant reduction in the noise level at 51 stations, which reached levels almost equivalent to those of OBPRs. Although no significant pressure changes have been identified as associated with the 2018 Boso SSE or repeated tremor bursts in the northern Japan Trench thus far, our findings indicate that these stations are sufficiently sensitive to detect slow slip events occurring nearby.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s) 2022

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