Passive seismic recording of cryoseisms in Adventdalen, Svalbard

Romeyn, Rowan; Hanssen, Alfred; Ruud, Bent Ole; Stemland, Helene Meling; Johansen, Tor Arne

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-283-2021

Articles | Volume 15, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-283-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-283-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 1

Research article

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20 Jan 2021

Research article |

| 20 Jan 2021

Passive seismic recording of cryoseisms in Adventdalen, Svalbard

Rowan Romeyn, Alfred Hanssen, Bent Ole Ruud, Helene Meling Stemland, and Tor Arne Johansen

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Final revised paper (published on 20 Jan 2021)
Preprint (discussion started on 25 Jun 2020)

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Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of manuscript tc-2020-141', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Aug 2020
- RC2: 'Review of "Passive seismic recording of cryoseisms in Adventdalen, Svalbard"', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Aug 2020
  - AC2: 'Inversion of dispersion curves/spectra', Rowan Romeyn, 07 Sep 2020
  - AC3: 'Interpreting variation between Spring & Autumn data', Rowan Romeyn, 07 Sep 2020
  - AC4: 'General comment', Rowan Romeyn, 07 Sep 2020
- AC1: 'Source localisation/match field processing', Rowan Romeyn, 07 Sep 2020
- AC2: 'Inversion of dispersion curves/spectra', Rowan Romeyn, 07 Sep 2020
- AC3: 'Interpreting variation between Spring & Autumn data', Rowan Romeyn, 07 Sep 2020
- AC4: 'General comment', Rowan Romeyn, 07 Sep 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (08 Oct 2020) by Adam Booth

AR by Rowan Romeyn on behalf of the Authors (30 Oct 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (11 Nov 2020) by Adam Booth

RR by Aurélien Mordret (23 Nov 2020)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (07 Dec 2020) by Adam Booth

Short summary

A series of unusual ground motion signatures were identified in geophone recordings at a frost polygon site in Adventdalen on Svalbard. By analysing where the ground motion originated in time and space, we are able to classify them as cryoseisms, also known as frost quakes, a ground-cracking phenomenon that occurs as a result of freezing processes. The waves travelling through the ground produced by these frost quakes also allow us to measure the structure of the permafrost in the near surface.