A hybrid regularization scheme for the inversion of magnetotelluric data from natural and controlled sources to layer and distortion parameters

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Kalscheuer, Thomas ^a   Hübert, Juliane ^b   Kuvshinov, Alexey ^a   Lochbühler, Tobias ^c   Pedersen, Laust B ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electromagnetics; Engineering; Inversion; Magnetotelluric

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOTELLURICS;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETICS; HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; INVERSION; MAGNETIC TRANSFER FUNCTION; MAGNETOTELLURIC; MARQUARDT-LEVENBERG METHOD; SMOOTHNESS CONSTRAINTS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

DATA INVERSION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD;

HALLAND; SWEDEN;

EID: 84864091502     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2012-0018.1     Document Type: Article

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