Enhanced uniqueness and linearity of receiver function inversion

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1756-1767

  Jacobsen, Bo Holm ^a   Svenningsen, Lasse ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAY-TIME; RECEIVER FUNCTIONS;

LINEARIZATION;

CONVERGENCE; DATA INVERSION; INVERSE PROBLEM; LINEARITY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 50849097104     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070180     Document Type: Article

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