Seismic tomography with the reversible jump algorithm

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1411-1436

  Bodin, Thomas ^a   Sambridge, Malcolm ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Computational seismology; Inverse theory; Probability distribution; Seismic tomography; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; INVERSE PROBLEM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 69149096399     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04226.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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