Regularized extremal bounds analysis (REBA): An approach to quantifying uncertainty in nonlinear geophysical inverse problems

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Meju, Max A ^a,b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PETRONAS CARIGALI SDN BHD   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-PRIORI; BOUNDING MODELS; DATA CONSTRAINTS; DATA INTERPRETATIONS; EXTREMAL; GEOPHYSICAL INVERSE PROBLEMS; GEOPHYSICAL INVERSIONS; GEOPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; NON UNIQUENESS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; OBJECTIVE MEASURES; REGULARIZATION APPROACHES; SUBSURFACE TARGETS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS; INVERSE THEORY; NONLINEAR UNCERTAINTIES; REGULARIZATION; REGULARIZATION APPROACH; STRUCTURAL DISSIMILARITIES;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GEOPHYSICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEM; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 65249106666     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036407     Document Type: Article

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