Finite-frequency structural sensitivities of short-period compressional body waves

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 522-540

  Fuji, Nobuaki ^a   Chevrot, Sébastien ^a   Zhao, Li ^b   Geller, Robert J ^c   Kawai, Kenji ^d  

^a IRAP   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body waves; Seismic tomography; Theoretical seismology; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; COARSE GRID; COMPRESSIONAL; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CPU TIME; DIRECT SOLUTION METHOD; DISK SPACE; GREEN'S TENSORS; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; I/O OPERATIONS; INTERPOLATION SCHEMES; NORMAL MODES; PARTIAL DERIVATIVES; RAY THEORY; SAMPLING GRIDS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVEFIELDS; SENSITIVITY KERNELS; SPATIAL ALIASING; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; SPATIAL SAMPLING; STRUCTURAL SENSITIVITY; TELESEISMIC BODY WAVES; TIME WINDOWS; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

INTERPOLATION; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

TENSORS;

BODY WAVE; COMPRESSION; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; INTERPOLATION; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862214349     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05495.x     Document Type: Article

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