Error bars for the global seismic Q profile

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 230, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 413-423

  Resovsky, Joseph ^a   Trampert, Jeannot ^a   Van der Hilst, R D ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Neighbourhood algorithm; Seismic attenuation

Indexed keywords

RADIAL Q MODELS; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SHEAR ATTENUATION; SURFACE WAVE DATA;

ATTENUATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINERALOGY; OSCILLATIONS; RADIATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 12744260375     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.12.008     Document Type: Article

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