Global and regional surface-wave inversions: A spherical-spline parameterization

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 207-210

  Wang, Zheng ^a   Tromp, Jeroen ^a   Ekström, Göran ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE VELOCITY; SPHERES;

SPHERICAL SPLINE INVERSION METHOD;

SURFACE WAVES;

COMPACTLY SUPPORTED; MODEL PARAMETERIZATION; NON LINEAR INVERSION; SPHERICAL HARMONIC REPRESENTATIONS; SPHERICAL SPLINES; SURFACE WAVE INVERSION; VARIABLE RESOLUTION; WAVE PHASE VELOCITIES;

EID: 0031676748     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03634     Document Type: Article

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