Grid travel-time tracing: second-order method for the first arrivals in smooth media

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 148, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 539-563

  Klimeš, Luděk ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Accuracy; First arrival travel times; Ray tracing; Seismic waves; Slowness vectors

Indexed keywords

RAY TRACING; TRAVELTIME;

EID: 0030439792     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00874578     Document Type: Article

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