Practical incorporation of local and regional topography in three-dimensional inversion of deep ocean magnetotelluric data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 348-361

  Baba, Kiyoshi ^a   Tada, Noriko ^b   Utada, Hisashi ^a   Siripunvaraporn, Weerachai ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Mahidol University   (Thailand)

^d Thailand Ministry of Science and Technology   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Geomagnetic induction; Magnetotellurics; Marine electromagnetics; Numerical approximations and analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CONDUCTIVITY STRUCTURES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOMAGNETIC INDUCTION; MARINE ELECTROMAGNETICS; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS AND ANALYSIS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TOPOGRAPHIC DISTORTIONS;

GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETOTELLURICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

TOPOGRAPHY;

DEEP SEA; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84879470362     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt115     Document Type: Article

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