Finite-frequency sensitivity of body waves to anisotropy based upon adjoint methods

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 368-389

  Sieminski, Anne ^a   Liu, Qinya ^b   Trampert, Jeannot ^a   Tromp, Jeroen ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint methods; Body waves; Fr chet derivatives; Seismic anisotropy; Sensitivity; Shear wave splitting

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT METHOD; BODY WAVE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 35248846418     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03528.x     Document Type: Article

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