Full waveform inversion of reflection seismic data for ocean temperature profiles

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Wood, Warren T ^a   Holbrook, W Steven ^b   Sen, Mrinal K ^c   Stoffa, Paul L ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE; WATER WAVES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

INTERNAL WAVES; OCEAN MIXING; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; SEISMIC OCEANOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

SEISMIC WAVES;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; AIR GUN; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA INVERSION; HYDROPHONE; INTERNAL WAVE; MIXING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 44249125040     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032359     Document Type: Article

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