Automated multimode phase speed measurements for high-resolution regional-scale tomography: Application to North America

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1538-1558

  Yoshizawa, K ^a,b   Ekström, Göran ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Inverse theory; North America; Seismic tomography; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED MEASUREMENT; AUTOMATED METHODS; AUTOMATIC SCREENING; CONTINENTAL SCALE; CURRENT DATA; GLOBAL SEARCH; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MAPPING; HIGHER MODE; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INVERSE THEORY; LARGE DATA; LOVE WAVE; MULTIMODES; NEIGHBOURHOOD ALGORITHMS; NON-LINEAR; NONUNIFORM; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH AMERICAN; OUTLIER DETECTION; PHASE SPEED; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; RAY PATHS; RAYLEIGH; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHORT PERIODS; THREE-COMPONENT; TIME WINDOWS; WAVE FORMS; WAVE STRUCTURES; WAVEFORM FITTING;

AUTOMATION; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SPEED; SPEED REGULATORS; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AUTOMATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LOVE WAVE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAM; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 78449247116     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04814.x     Document Type: Article

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