Body tides on a 3-D elastic earth: Toward a tidal tomography

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 86-90

  Latychev, Konstantin ^a   Mitrovica, Jerry X ^a   Ishii, Miaki ^b   Chan, Ngai Ham ^a   Davis, James L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D Earth models; body tides; seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

3-D EARTH MODELS; BODY TIDES; DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHIES; EARTH STRUCTURES; ELASTIC STRUCTURES; INTERNAL INTERFACES; LATERAL VARIATIONS; NUMERICAL CODES; ON BODIES; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; RADIAL DISPLACEMENTS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE GRAVITIES; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSIONS;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; EARTHQUAKES; ELASTIC MODULI; MEDICAL IMAGING; MILITARY OPERATIONS; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TIDES; TOMOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DATA INVERSION; DEFORMATION; EARTH TIDE; ELASTICITY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GRAVITY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 57749109882     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.10.008     Document Type: Article

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