Global 3-D imaging of mantle electrical conductivity based on inversion of observatory C-responses-I. An approach and its verification

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1335-1352

  Kuvshinov, Alexey ^a   Semenov, Alexey ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electrical properties; Geomagnetic induction; Inverse theory; Numerical solutions

Indexed keywords

3D IMAGING; ADJOINT APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GEOMAGNETIC INDUCTION; INVERSE SOLUTION; INVERSE THEORY; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PARALLELIZING; PENALTY FUNCTION; QUASI-NEWTON; TIME-CONSUMING PARTS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GEOMAGNETISM; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GREEN FUNCTION; IMAGING METHOD; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84860838273     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05349.x     Document Type: Article

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