Null-space and statistical significance of first-arrival traveltime inversion

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 549-554

  Morozov, Igor B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

First arrival traveltimes; IASP91; Inversion; Model uncertainty; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; DATA INVERSION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 1642528876     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02133.x     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Aki, K. & Richards, P.G., 2002. Quantitative Seismology, 2nd edn, University Science Books, Sausalito.
2. Bessonova, E.N., Fishman, V.M., Ryaboy, V.Z. & Sitnikova, G.A., 1974. The tau method for inversion of traveltimes, 1, Deep seismic sounding data, Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 36, 377-398.
3. Buland, R. & Chapman, C.H., 1983. The computation of seismic travel times, Bull. seism. Soc. Am., 73, 1271-1302.
4. Christensen, N.I. & Mooney, W.D., 1995. Seismic velocity structure and composition of the continental crust: a global view, J. geophys. Res., 100, 9761-9788.
5. Healy, J.H., 1963. Crustal structure along the coast of California from seismic-refraction measurements, J. geophys. Res., 68, 5777-5787.
6. Kennett, B.L.N. & Engdahl, R., 1991. Traveltimes for global earthquake location and phase identification, Geophys. J. Int. 105, 429-465.
7. Menke, W., 1989. Geophysical data analysis: discrete inverse theory, p. 289 Academic, San Diego.
8. Pavlenkova, N.I., 1982. The intercept-time method: possibilities and limitations, J. Geophys., 51, 85-95.
9. Pullammanappallil, S.K. & Louie, J.N., 1994. A generalized simulated-annealing optimisation for inversion of first-arrival times, Bull. seism. Soc. Am., 84, 1397-1409.
10. Schueller, W., Morozov, I.B. & Smithson, S.B., 1997. Crustal and uppermost mantle velocity structure of northern Eurasia along the profile QUARTZ, Bull. seism. Soc. Am., 87, 414-426.
11. Yomogida, K., 1992. Fresnel zone inversion for lateral heterogeneities in the Earth, Pure appl. Geophys., 138, 391-406.
12. Zelt, C.A., 1999. Modelling strategies and model assessment for wide-angle seismic traveltime data, Geophys. J. Int. 139, 183-204.
13. Zhang, J. & Toksoz M.N., 1998. Nonlinear refraction traveltime tomography, Geophysics, 63, 1726-1737.