Adjoint centroid-moment tensor inversions

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 264-278

  Kim, Younghee ^a   Liu, Qinya ^b   Tromp, Jeroen ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Earthquake dynamics; Earthquake source observations; Inverse theory; Theoretical seismology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL SEISMOLOGY; EARTHQUAKE DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; INVERSE THEORY; THEORETICAL SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

TENSORS;

ALGORITHM; CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; EARTHQUAKE; GREEN FUNCTION; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMOGRAM; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE FIELD; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959230306     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05027.x     Document Type: Article

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