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Synthetic tests indicate the applicability of the FWI approach to robustly reconstruct VP models with a typical hydrate and gas signature. Models of S-wave velocity VS containing a hydrate signature can only be reconstructed when the parameter distribution of VS is already well-known. When we add noise to the modeled data to simulate field-data conditions, it prevents the reconstruction of VS completely, justifying the application of an acoustic approach. We invert for VP models from field data of two parallel profiles of 14\u00a0km length with a distance of 1\u00a0km. Results indicate a characteristic velocity trend for hydrate and gas occurrence at BSR depth in the first of the analyzed profiles. We find no indications for gas accumulations below the BSR on the second profile and only weak indications for hydrate. These differences in the VP signature are consistent with the reflectivity behavior of the migrated seismic streamer data of both profiles in which a zone of high-reflectivity amplitudes is coincident with the potential gas zone derived from the FWI result. Calculating saturation estimates for the potential hydrate and gas zones yields values of up to 30% and 1.2%, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1190\/geo2018-0622.1","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,9]],"date-time":"2019-05-09T13:31:54Z","timestamp":1557408714000},"page":"B311-B324","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1190\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Seismic characterization of submarine gas-hydrate deposits in the Western Black Sea by acoustic full-waveform inversion of ocean-bottom seismic data"],"prefix":"10.1190","volume":"84","author":[{"given":"Laura","family":"Gassner","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 1 , Geophysical Institute, Hertzstrasse 16, Karlsruhe 76187, . 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