Global surface wave inversion with model constraints

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 210-226

  Cercato, Michele ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dispersion curve; Global inversion; Surface wave

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; DIRECT MINIMIZATION; DISPERSION CURVES; DISPERSION MEASUREMENTS; DISPERSION PATTERNS; GLOBAL INVERSION; HEURISTIC INVERSION; INVERSION PROBLEMS; MINIMUM NORM; MODAL SUPERPOSITION; MODE IDENTIFICATION; MODEL CONSTRAINTS; MODEL PARAMETERS; NONUNIQUENESS; PARAMETER SPACES; PARAMETRIZATIONS; POSTERIOR UNCERTAINTIES; SHEAR VELOCITIES; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS; SURFACE WAVE INVERSION; SURFACE WAVE MODES; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT; WAVE FORMS; WAVE PROFILES;

ALGORITHMS; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INVERSE PROBLEMS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; RATING; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SHEAR FLOW;

ALGORITHM; COMPLEXITY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 79551655569     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2010.00922.x     Document Type: Article

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