Automated multimode inversion of surface and S waveforms

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 951-964

  Lebedev, Sergei ^a   Nolet, Guust ^b   Meier, Thomas ^c   van der Hilst, Rob D ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse problem; Scattering; Synthetic seismograms; Tomography; Upper mantle; Waveform analysis

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEM; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAM; SURFACE WAVE; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SCATTERING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 31744445223     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02708.x     Document Type: Article

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