“…On the other hand, Malischewsky and Scherbaum (2004) proposed that H/V spectral ratios could be modeled as measurements of Rayleigh wave ellipticity, assuming that seismic noise is dominated by surface waves. They propose an exact formula to calculate the theoretical ellipticity for a given velocity model, which can be either a single layer over a half-space or a multilayered model (Malischewsky et al, 2010;Tran et al, 2011). The same authors have discussed the conditions required to model H/V spectral ratios in terms of theoretical ellipticity, with special emphasis on velocity contrast and values of the Poisson ratio ν.…”