Surface wave sensitivity: Mode summation versus adjoint SEM

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1560-1576

  Zhou, Ying ^a   Liu, Qinya ^b   Tromp, Jeroen ^c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Inverse theory; Surface waves and free oscillations; Theoretical seismology; Tomography

Indexed keywords

1-D MODELS; 3D MODELS; ADJOINT METHODS; ADJOINTS; AMPLITUDE MEASUREMENTS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTH MODELS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; GLOBAL INVERSION; INVERSE THEORY; LATERAL WAVES; LOVE WAVE; MODE COUPLING; PHYSICAL DISPERSION; REFERENCE MODELS; SENSITIVITY KERNELS; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD; SURFACE WAVE MODES; TIME DOMAIN; WAVE PROPAGATION SIMULATION; WAVEFIELDS;

MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; HETEROGENEITY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LOVE WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WAVE;

EID: 81555214031     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05212.x     Document Type: Article

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