Mode-sum to ray-sum transformation in a spherical and an aspherical earth

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 389-412

  Zhao, L ^a,b   Dahlen, F A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body waves; Fr chet derivatives; Green's functions; Normal modes; Perturbation methods; Ray theory; Scattering

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; NORMAL MODE; PERTURBATION; RAY THEORY; SCATTERING;

EID: 0030472090     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb05299.x     Document Type: Article

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