SKS splitting measurements with horizontal component misalignment

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 329-340

  Tian, Xiaobo ^a   Zhang, Jianli ^a   Si, Shaokun ^a   Wang, Jingbo ^b   Chen, Yun ^a   Zhang, Zhongjie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body waves; Broad band seismometers; Computational seismology; Seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; BROAD-BAND SEISMOMETERS; COMPUTATIONAL SEISMOLOGY; EIGENVALUE METHODS; FALSE MEASUREMENTS; GLOBAL MINIMA; MIS-ORIENTATION; MODEL TESTS; ROTATING ANGLE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SPLITTING MEASUREMENTS; TRANSVERSE ENERGY; TWO LAYERS; UPPER MANTLE;

ALIGNMENT; ANISOTROPY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; SEISMOGRAPHS;

SEISMOLOGY;

BODY WAVE; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EIGENVALUE; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMOLOGY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 79952666095     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04936.x     Document Type: Article

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