P-wave arrival time inversion by using the T - P method: Application to the Mt. Vesuvius volcano, southern Italy

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 515-518

  De Matteis, Raffaella ^a,c   Zollo, Aldo ^a   Virieux, Jean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY; VOLCANOES; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

HIGH-RESOLUTION TOMOGRAPHY; INVERSION METHODS; NONLINEAR APPROACH; P WAVE ARRIVAL TIME; SEISMIC INVESTIGATIONS; SHALLOW STRUCTURE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; VELOCITY VARIATIONS;

ITERATIVE METHODS; SEISMOLOGY;

FIRST ARRIVAL TIMES; MOUNT VESUVIUS; NONLINEAR INVERSION METHOD;

ARRIVAL TIME; INVERSION; P WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

ITALY, CAMPANIA, VESUVIUS;

EID: 0031104347     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00186     Document Type: Article

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