Scattering and Attenuations of Seismic Waves Part I

This is volume I of the two-volume special issue Scattering and Attenuation of Seismic Waves which will contain total 17 invited review papers and about 30 c- tributed papers. The scope and contents of the special issue are described in the following Introduction. This volume includes 21 contributed papers arranged in the following order: Scattering theory and modeling including the scattering attenuation and its separation from the intrinsic attenuation; numerical method and simulation; field observation including coda Q and surface wave Q measurement; inversion; laboratory attenuation measurement of rock samples. We thank the following colleagues for reviewing manuscripts for the special issue: J. D. Achenbach D. L. Anderson N. C. Banik D. R. Baumgardt A. Ben-Menahem J. G. Berryman N. Biswas N. Bleistein D. M. Boore M. Bouchon J. N. Brune T. Q. Cao J. Capon C. H. Cheng B. Chouet E. Cranswick A. Dainty P. M. Davis z. A. Der A. Frankel I. N. Gupta R. A. W. Haddon D. HeImberger R. B. Herrmann J. D. Hudson E. Husebye A. S. Jin L. Knopoff K. L. Lamer P. C. Leary W. H. K. Lee I. Lerche A. R. Levander Y. G. Li P. Malin T. V. McEvilly K. L. McLaughlin W. Menke R. F. Mereu W. D. Mooney G. D. Nelson R. L. Nowack A. M. Nur O. W. NuttIi H. J. Patton J. Y. Peng W. A. Peppin W. S.