The perturbed traveltime equation and the adjoint-states gradient of the traveltime error

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 679-683

  Mulder, W A ^a  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Ray theory; Seismic velocities; Travel time tomography

Indexed keywords

EQUATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 33750715731     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.02932.x     Document Type: Article

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