On the computation of long period seismograms in a 3-D earth using normal mode based approximations

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 520-536

  Romanowicz, Barbara A ^a   Panning, Mark P ^b   Gung, Yuancheng ^c   Capdeville, Yann ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Seismic tomography; Surface waves and free ascillations; Theoretical seismology; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAM; SURFACE WAVE; THEORETICAL STUDY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 54849417197     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03914.x     Document Type: Article

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