Time-dependent stochastic inversion in acoustic travel-time tomography of the atmosphere

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2579-2588

  Vecherin, Sergey N ^a   Ostashev, Vladimir E ^a,b   Goedecke, George H ^a   Wilson, D Keith ^c   Voronovich, Alexander G ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PROPAGATION MEDIUM; SPATIAL COVARIANCE; STOCHASTIC INVERSIONS; TRAVEL-TIME TOMOGRAPHY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TOMOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND;

EID: 33646456347     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2180535     Document Type: Article

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