Inversion of massive surface wave data sets: Model construction and resolution assessment

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Debayle, Eric ^a   Sambridge, Malcolm ^b  

^a UMR 7063   (France)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Global tomography; Resolution Voronoi; Surface wave

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA INVERSION; RESOLUTION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; SURFACE WAVE;

EID: 2542476960     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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