Improved inversion for seismic structure using transformed, S-wavevector receiver functions: Removing the effect of the free surface

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2003, Pages

  Reading, Anya ^a   Kennett, Brian ^a   Sambridge, Malcolm ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; SURFACE WAVES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SEISMIC STRUCTURE;

SEISMOLOGY;

DATA INVERSION; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

EID: 17744417917     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018090     Document Type: Article

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