A new seismic velocity model for the moon from a Monte Carlo inversion of the Apollo lunar seismic data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1591-1594

  Khan, A ^a   Mosegaard, K ^a   Rasmussen, K L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b National Museum of Denmark   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOON; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

ALGORITHMS; LUNAR MISSIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOON; VELOCITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES;

APOLLO LUNAR SEISMIC DATA; MONTE CARLO INVERSION; SEISMIC VELOCITY MODEL;

SEISMOLOGY;

CONSTANT VELOCITIES; HIGH VELOCITY; INVERSE MONTE CARLO METHOD; LOWER BOUNDARY; P- AND S-WAVES; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC VELOCITY MODELS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0034352865     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL008452     Document Type: Article

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