Three-dimensional topography corrections of magnetotelluric data

Details Three-dimensional topography corrections of magnetotelluric data Three-dimensional topography corrections of magnetotelluric data

Aug 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008geoji.174..464n&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 174, Issue 2, pp. 464-474.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

2

Numerical Solutions, Magnetotelluric

Scientific paper

Topographic effects due to irregular surface terrain may prevent accurate interpretation of magnetotelluric (MT) data. Three-dimensional (3-D) topographic effects have been investigated for a trapezoidal hill model using an edge finite-element method. The 3-D topography generates significant MT anomalies, and has both galvanic and inductive effects in any polarization. This paper presents two different correction algorithms, which are applied to the impedance tensor and to both electric and magnetic fields, respectively, to reduce topographic effects on MT data. The correction procedures using a homogeneous background resistivity derived from a simple averaging method effectively decrease distortions caused by surface topography, and improve the quality of subsurface interpretation. Nonlinear least-squares inversion of topography-corrected data successfully recovers most of structures including a conductive or resistive dyke.

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