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Titel |
Monitoring a CO2-Storage site with Passive Image Interferometry |
VerfasserIn |
Martina Gassenmeier, Christoph Sens-Schönfelder, Michael Korn |
Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2013
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Medientyp |
Artikel
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Sprache |
Englisch
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Digitales Dokument |
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Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 15 (2013) |
Datensatznummer |
250072314
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Zusammenfassung |
In seismology, Passive Image Interferometry (PII), based on ambient seismic noise, can be
used to detect small temporal changes in the propagation of the seismic wavefield. As these
changes can be related to changes of elastic properties in the propagation medium, PII can be
used to observe dynamic processes in the earth’s crust. This technique was successfully
applied, inter alia, to monitor seasonal variations in response to environmental changes or
stress changes caused by earthquakes or material changes due to the eruption of
volcanoes.
PII is based on the possibility of reconstructing the Green’s function between a pair of
receivers from continuous records of seismic noise. With two seismometers as receivers, the
Green’s Function describes the propagation of a seismic wave between the two receivers. It
can be reconstructed by cross-correlating the ambient seismic noise, recorded at the receivers.
A change in the medium between the seismometers directly affects the shape of the
cross-correlation functions (CCFs), from which a change in the seismic velocities can be
derived.
Our idea is to investigate the potential application of this technique to monitor the
emplacement of CO2 at the test site for CO2 sequestration in Ketzin (Brandenburg,
Germany). We calculated CCFs of the ambient noise field for a time period of about 4 years
from the beginning of the injection. The analysis of the cross-correlations showed that they
are asymmetric and dominated by a phase traveling with about 300 m/s, which is consistent
with Rayleigh waves traveling in the shallow sediments. The noise direction was
analysed with an optimal rotation algorithm over 1 month of data and showed a
prominant direction incoming from north-east in a frequency range between 0.5
and 4 Hz. This direction matches with the location of a large windpark a few km
away from the array. For lower frequencies, the noise is dominantly incident from
north-west.
To analyse possible velocity changes for each day, we computed stretched versions of
a reference CCF in different frequency bands and calculated correlation values
between time windows in the coda part of the stretched traces and the reference
trace.
Due to the almost continuous injection of CO2 we expect a monotonic decrease of the
seismic velocities.
So far, we can observe velocity variations with a period of approx. one year that indicates a
seasonal influence, most probably due to environmental influences, which overlay the effect
of the CO2 injection. |
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