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29th Monitoring Research Review: Ground-Based Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Technologies IMPROVEMENTS TO A MAJOR DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF SEISMIC WAVEFORMS FROM NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS: BOROVOYE SEISMOGRAM ARCHIVE 1 2 2 1 Won-Young Kim , Howard J. Patton , George E. Randall , and Paul G. Richards 1 2 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and Los Alamos National Laboratory Sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory Contract No. FA8718-07-C-0004 ABSTRACT We have just started a three-year project to generate in modern form an easily usable archive of digital seismograms derived from regional waveforms recorded at the Borovoye Observatory (BRV), northern Kazakhstan, over a 30-year period going back to 1966 and spanning the time when state-of-the-art sensors and dataloggers were introduced at this site by several different western groups. The BRV seismograms, which include multi-channel regional signals from more than 300 underground nuclear explosions carried out in Eurasia, were made generally available to western scientists in 2001, but only as copies of the bits in the original digital waveforms. These copies contain large numbers of glitches and did not include instrument responses for approximately two-thirds of the events. Since 2001, scientists at Los Alamos National laboratory (LANL) have processed the BRV regional signals for approximately one third of the events, mainly those for which instrument responses were available. Because many different and important uses of the Borovoye archive have been made in recent years, we are completing the work o