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Post-Processing Scripts

Several post-processing scripts/programs are provided in the utils/ directory, and most of them need to be adjusted when used on different systems, for example, the path of the executable programs. Here we only list a few of the available scripts and provide a brief description, and you can either refer to the related sections for detailed usage or, in a lot of cases, type the script/program name without arguments for its usage.

Process Data and Synthetics

In many cases, the SEM synthetics are calculated and compared to data seismograms recorded at seismic stations. Since the SEM synthetics are accurate for a certain frequency range, both the original data and the synthetics need to be processed before a comparison can be made.

For such comparisons, the following steps are recommended:

  1. Make sure that both synthetic and observed seismograms have the correct station/event and timing information.

  2. Convolve synthetic seismograms with a source-time function with the half duration specified in the CMTSOLUTION file, provided, as recommended, you used a zero half duration in the SEM simulations.

  3. Resample both observed and synthetic seismograms to a common sampling rate.

  4. Cut the records using the same window.

  5. Remove the trend and mean from the records and taper them.

  6. Remove the instrument response from the observed seismograms (recommended) or convolve the synthetic seismograms with the instrument response.

  7. Make sure that you apply the same filters to both observed and synthetic seismograms. Preferably, avoid filtering your records more than once.

  8. Now, you are ready to compare your synthetic and observed seismograms.

We generally use the following scripts provided in the utils/scripts/seis_process/ directory:

Data processing script process_data.pl

This script cuts a given portion of the original data, filters it, transfers the data into a displacement record, and picks the first P and S arrivals. For more functionality, type ‘process_data.pl’ without any argument. An example of the usage of the script:

process_data.pl -m CMTSOLUTION -s 1.0 -l 0/4000 -i -f -t 40/500 -p -x bp DATA/1999.330*.BH?.SAC

which has resampled the SAC files to a sampling rate of 1 seconds, cut them between 0 and 4000 seconds, transfered them into displacement records and filtered them between 40 and 500 seconds, picked the first P and S arrivals, and added suffix ‘bp’ to the file names.

Note that all of the scripts in this section actually use the SAC and/or IASP91 to do the core operations; therefore make sure that the SAC and IASP91 packages are installed properly on your system, and that all the environment variables are set properly before running these scripts.

Synthetics processing script process_syn.pl

This script converts the synthetic output from the SEM code from ASCII to SAC format, and performs similar operations as ‘process_data.pl’. An example of the usage of the script:

process_syn.pl -m CMTSOLUTION -h -a STATIONS -s 1.0 -l 0/4000 -f -t 40/500 -p -x bp SEM/*.BX?.semd

which will convolve the synthetics with a triangular source-time function from the CMTSOLUTION file, convert the synthetics into SAC format, add event and station information into the SAC headers, resample the SAC files with a sampling rate of 1 seconds, cut them between 0 and 4000 seconds, filter them between 40 and 500 seconds with the same filter used for the observed data, pick the first P and S arrivals, and add the suffix ‘bp’ to the file names.

More options are available for this script, such as adding time shift to the origin time of the synthetics, convolving the synthetics with a triangular source-time function with a given half duration, etc. Type process_syn.pl without any argument for a detailed usage.

In order to convert between SAC format and ASCII files, useful scripts are provided in the subdirectories utils/scripts/sac2000_alpha_convert/ and utils/scripts/seis_process/asc2sac/.

Script rotate.pl

The original data and synthetics have three components: vertical (BHZ resp. BXZ), north (BHN resp. BXN) and east (BHE resp. BXE). However, for most seismology applications, transverse and radial components are also desirable. Therefore, we need to rotate the horizontal components of both the data and the synthetics to the transverse and radial direction, and rotate.pl can be used to accomplish this:

rotate.pl -l 0 -L 180 -d DATA/*.BHE.SAC.bp
rotate.pl -l 0 -L 180 SEM/*.BXE.semd.sac.bp

where the first command performs rotation on the SAC data obtained through Seismogram Transfer Program (STP), while the second command rotates the processed SEM synthetics.

Collect Synthetic Seismograms

The forward and adjoint simulations generate synthetic seismograms in the OUTPUT_FILES/ directory by default. For the forward simulation, the files are named like NT.STA.BX?.semd for two-column time series, or NT.STA.BX?.semd.sac for ASCII SAC format, where NT and STA are the network code and station name, and BX? stands for the component name. Please see the Appendix [cha:Coordinates] and [cha:channel-codes] for further details.

The adjont simulations generate synthetic seismograms with the name NT.S?????.S??.sem (refer to Section [sec:Adjoint-simulation-sources] for details). The kernel simulations output the back-reconstructed synthetic seismogram in the name NT.STA.BX?.semd, mainly for the purpose of checking the accuracy of the reconstruction. Refer to Section [sec:Adjoint-simulation-finite] for further details.

You do have further options to change this default output behavior, given in the DATA/Par_file:

USE_BINARY_FOR_SEISMOGRAMS
Set to .true. to have seismograms written out in binary format.

WRITE_SEISMOGRAMS_BY_MAIN
Set to .true. to have only the main process writing out seismograms. This can be useful on a cluster, where only the main process node has access to the output directory.

Clean Local Database

After all the simulations are done, the seismograms are collected, and the useful database files are copied to the frontend, you may need to clean the local scratch disk for the next simulation. This is especially important in the case of kernel simulation, where very large files are generated for the absorbing boundaries to help with the reconstruction of the regular forward wavefield. A sample script is provided in utils/scripts/Cluster:

cleanbase.pl machines

where machines is a file containing the node names.

Plot Movie Snapshots and Synthetic Shakemaps

Script movie2gif.gmt.pl

With the movie data saved in OUTPUT_FILES/ at the end of a movie simulation (MOVIE_SURFACE=.true.), you can run the ‘create_movie_shakemap_AVS_DX_GMT’ code to convert these binary movie data into GMT xyz files for futher processing. A sample script movie2gif.gmt.pl is provided to do this conversion, and then plot the movie snapshots in GMT, for example:

movie2gif.gmt.pl -m CMTSOLUTION -g -f 1/40 -n -2 -p

which for the first through the 40th movie frame, converts the moviedata files into GMT xyz files, interpolates them using the ’nearneighbor’ command in GMT, and plots them on a 2D topography map. Note that ‘-2’ and ‘-p’ are both optional.

Script plot_shakemap.gmt.pl

With the shakemap data saved in OUTPUT_FILES/ at the end of a shakemap simulation (CREATE_SHAKEMAP=.true.), you can also run ‘create_movie_shakemap_AVS_DX_GMT’ code to convert the binary shakemap data into GMT xyz files. A sample script plot_shakemap.gmt.pl is provided to do this conversion, and then plot the shakemaps in GMT, for example:

plot_shakemap.gmt.pl data _dir type(1,2,3) CMTSOLUTION

where type=1 for a displacement shakemap, 2 for velocity, and 3 for acceleration.

Map Local Database

A sample program remap_database is provided to map the local database from a set of machines to another set of machines. This is especially useful when you want to run mesher and solver, or different types of solvers separately through a scheduler (refer to Chapter [cha:Scheduler]).

run_lsf.bash --gm-no-shmem --gm-copy-env remap_database old_machines 150

where old_machines is the LSF machine file used in the previous simulation, and 150 is the number of processors in total.

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