A simple method for improving crustal corrections in waveform tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 265-278

  Lekic V ^a   Panning, M ^b   Romanowicz, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Crustal structure; Seismic tomography; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA SET; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OSCILLATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WAVE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954639940     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04602.x     Document Type: Article

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