Exploring the model space and ranking a best class of models in surface-wave dispersion inversion: Application at European strong-motion sites

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Di Giulio, Giuseppe ^a,b   Savvaidis, Alexandros ^b   Ohrnberger, Matthias ^c   Wathelet, Marc ^d   Cornou, Cecile ^d   Knapmeyer Endrun, Brigitte ^c   Renalier, Florence ^d   Theodoulidis, Nikos ^b   Bard, Pierre Yves ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b Institute of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Akaike's Information Criterion; Inversion of dispersion curves; Site characterization; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GEOMETRY; PARAMETERIZATION; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AKAIKE'S INFORMATION CRITERIONS; INVERSION OF DISPERSION CURVES; LEAST SQUARES ESTIMATION; NEIGHBORHOOD ALGORITHM; NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SURFACE WAVE DISPERSION; SURFACE WAVE INVERSION; MODEL PARAMETERIZATION; POWER-LAW DEPENDENCES;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; HALF SPACE; PARAMETERIZATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; STRONG MOTION; VELOCITY PROFILE; WAVE DISPERSION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84861686072     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0116.1     Document Type: Article

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