Full Seismic Waveform Modelling and Inversion

• Main Author: Fichtner, Andreas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geophysics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Earth Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.; Applications of Mathematics.; Earth Sciences, general.

Recent progress in numerical methods and computer science allows us today to simulate the propagation of seismic waves through realistically heterogeneous Earth models with unprecedented accuracy. Full waveform tomography is a tomographic technique that takes advantage of numerical solutions of the...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Numerical Solution of the Elastic Wave Equation
• Computing Sensitivity Kernels
• Seismological Data Functionals and their Associated Adjoint Sources
• Iterative Optimisation
• Full Waveform Tomography for Upper-mantle Structure in Australasian Region
• A Comparative Study of Local-scale full Waveform Tomographies
• Source Staking and Data Reduction in Global full Waveform Tomography.