Reducing errors in seismic tomography: Combined inversion for sources and structure

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 847-857

  Valentine, Andrew P ^a   Woodhouse, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earthquake source observations; Inverse theory; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; CONVERGENCE; DATA INVERSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOCAL MECHANISM; INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 74549166068     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04452.x     Document Type: Article

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