Tomographic errors from wave front healing: More than just a fast bias

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 385-402

  Malcolm, Alison E ^a   Trampert, Jeannot ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Inverse theory; Seismic tomography; Theoretical seismology; Wave propagation; Wave scattering and diffraction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL SEISMOLOGY; INVERSE THEORY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL SEISMOLOGY; WAVE SCATTERING AND DIFFRACTION;

DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEFRONTS;

SHEAR FLOW;

ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SAMPLING BIAS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE DIFFRACTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 79952691806     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04945.x     Document Type: Article

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