Surface wave tomography: Finite-frequency effects lost in the null space

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 394-400

  Trampert, Jeannot ^a   Spetzler, Jesper ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Finite frequency kernels; Inverse theory; Model comparison; Phase velocity; Ray theory; Surface wave tomography

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVE;

EID: 33645971307     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.02864.x     Document Type: Article

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