Toward quantifying uncertainty in travel time tomography using the null-space shuttle

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  De Wit, R W L ^a   Trampert, J ^a   Van Der Hilst, R D ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEM; LITHOSPHERE; LOWER MANTLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLAB; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPPER MANTLE;

AFRICA; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; ICELAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858018441     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008754     Document Type: Article

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