Seismic ray method: Recent developments

Advances in Geophysics

Volumn 48, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-126

  Červený, Vlastislav ^a   Klimeš, Luděk ^a   Pšenčík, Ivan ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN BEAM; INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 33750907894     PISSN: 00652687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2687(06)48001-8     Document Type: Review

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