Sensitivity kernels for viscoelastic loading based on adjoint methods

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 34-77

  Al Attar, David ^a   Tromp, Jeroen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse theory; Numerical solutions; Rheology: Mantle; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENT; GRADIENT-BASED OPTIMIZATION; INVERSE THEORY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIER METHOD; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; RHEOLOGY: MANTLES; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SENSITIVITY TO VARIATIONS;

ELASTICITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; OPTIMIZATION; SEA LEVEL; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADJOINT METHOD; GLACIOISOSTASY; INVERSE PROBLEM; LOADING; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RHEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 84890862678     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt395     Document Type: Article

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