Numerical modeling of influence of ice formations under seismic impacts based on grid-characteristic method.

Today the Arctic is one of the most important regions, where lots of oil and gas deposits are located. The Arctic contains different ice formations that give rise to problems of the North seas’ exploring. The models ought to simulate the situations with the presence of ice constructions and oil slices. The main goal is to find the difference between responses from oil slices and ice formations. This paper represents the modeling results with ice cover and ice field. Wave patterns and seismograms are depicted for each model. Different cases of installing the source of impulse and receivers are examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]