Receiver function inversion by trans-dimensional Monte Carlo sampling

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 858-872

  Agostinetti, N Piana ^a   Malinverno, A ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Time series analysis; Inverse theory; Computational seismology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; INVERSE PROBLEM; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOLOGY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953115976     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04530.x     Document Type: Article

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