Heterogeneity of seismic wave velocity in Earth's mantle

J Ritsema, V Lekić - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Seismology provides important constraints on the structure and dynamics of the deep
mantle. Computational and methodological advances in the past two decades improved …

Structure, materials and processes in the Earth's core and mantle

V Dehant, SA Campuzano, A De Santis… - Surveys in …, 2022 - Springer
This paper reviews current knowledge about the Earth's core and the overlying deep mantle
in terms of structure, chemical and mineralogical compositions, physical properties, and …

3-D Bayesian variational full waveform inversion

X Zhang, A Lomas, M Zhou, Y Zheng… - Geophysical Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Seismic full-waveform inversion (FWI) provides high resolution images of the subsurface by
exploiting information in the recorded seismic waveforms. This is achieved by solving a …

Seismic tomography using variational inference methods

X Zhang, A Curtis - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Seismic tomography is a methodology to image the interior of solid or fluid media and is
often used to map properties in the subsurface of the Earth. In order to better interpret the …

3-D Monte Carlo surface wave tomography

X Zhang, A Curtis, E Galetti… - Geophysical Journal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Seismic surface wave tomography is a tried and tested method to reveal the subsurface
structure of the Earth. However, the conventional 2-step scheme of inverting first for 2-D …

Bayesian geophysical inversion with trans-dimensional Gaussian process machine learning

A Ray, D Myer - Geophysical Journal International, 2019 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY A key aspect of geophysical inversion is the ability to model the earth with a low
dimensional representation. There exist various approaches to solve the inverse problem …

Model update May 2016: Upper‐mantle heterogeneity beneath North America from travel‐time tomography with global and USArray data

S Burdick, FL Vernon, V Martynov… - Seismological …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT P‐wave travel‐time residuals from USArray helped improve the scale and
consistency with which the mantle beneath North America is resolved. Beginning in 2008 …

Trans‐dimensional surface reconstruction with different classes of parameterization

R Hawkins, T Bodin, M Sambridge… - Geochemistry …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The use of Bayesian trans‐dimensional sampling in 2‐D and 3‐D imaging problems has
recently become widespread in geophysical inversion. Its benefits include its spatial …

A reduced-order variational Bayesian approach for efficient subsurface imaging

D Urozayev, B Ait-El-Fquih, I Hoteit… - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This work considers the reconstruction of a subsurface model from seismic observations,
which is known to be a high-dimensional and ill-posed inverse problem. Two approaches …

Low frequency full waveform seismic inversion within a tree based Bayesian framework

A Ray, S Kaplan, J Washbourne… - Geophysical Journal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Limited illumination, insufficient offset, noisy data and poor starting models can pose
challenges for seismic full waveform inversion. We present an application of a tree based …