Empirical transfer functions: Application to determination of outermost core velocity structure using SmKS phases

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Alexandrakis, Catherine ^a   Eaton, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECONVOLUTION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

OUTER-CORE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SEISMOGRAMS; WIENER DECONVOLUTION;

SEISMOLOGY;

OUTER CORE; SEISMIC WAVE; STACKING; TRANSFER FUNCTION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 38949182620     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031932     Document Type: Article

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