A methodology for inversion of broadband seismic waveforms for elastic and anelastic structure and its application to the mantle transition zone beneath the Northwestern Pacific

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 180, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 118-137

  Fuji, Nobuaki ^a   Kawai, Kenji ^b,c   Geller, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Anelastic attenuation; Mantle transition zone; Seismic waveform inversion; Singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE'S INFORMATION CRITERIONS; ANELASTIC ATTENUATION; DEPTH RANGE; JAPAN SEA; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVEFORM INVERSION; SEISMIC WAVEFORMS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; UPPER MANTLE; WAVEFORM DATA;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ANELASTICITY; BODY WAVE; DATA INVERSION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ELASTICITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRANSITION ZONE; WAVE VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); PHILIPPINE SEA; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 77953233430     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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