Tsunami waveform inversion for sea surface displacement following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake: Importance of dispersion and source kinematics

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 6452-6473

  Hossen, M Jakir ^a   Cummins, Phil R ^a   Dettmer, Jan ^a   Baba, Toshitaka ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

dispersion; kinematics; sea surface displacement; source inversion; tsunami

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA SURFACE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84945237635     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JB011942     Document Type: Article

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