Mantle-circulation models with sequential data assimilation: Inferring present-day mantle structure from plate-motion histories

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1800, 2002, Pages 2545-2567

  Bunge, Hans Peter ^a   Richards, M A ^a   Baumgardner, J R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Earth's interior; Geodynamics; Mantle convection

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISASTER; FLOW KINETICS; GEOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEDIMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; VIBRATION; VISCOSITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTION; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NATURAL DISASTERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY; VIBRATION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0037111641     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2002.1080     Document Type: Conference Paper

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