Recent advances and challenges of waveform‐based seismic location methods at multiple scales

L Li, J Tan, B Schwarz, F Staněk, N Poiata… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Source locations provide fundamental information on earthquakes and lay the foundation for
seismic monitoring at all scales. Seismic source location as a classical inverse problem has …

Big data seismology

SJ Arrowsmith, DT Trugman, J MacCarthy… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The discipline of seismology is based on observations of ground motion that are inherently
undersampled in space and time. Our basic understanding of earthquake processes and our …

Seismic structure of the upper mantle beneath eastern Asia from full waveform seismic tomography

K Tao, SP Grand, F Niu - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To better understand the subsurface behavior of subducting slabs and their relation to the
tectonic evolution of the overriding plate, we conduct a full waveform inversion on a large …

Global adjoint tomography—model GLAD-M25

W Lei, Y Ruan, E Bozdağ, D Peter… - Geophysical Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Building on global adjoint tomography model GLAD-M15, we present transversely isotropic
global model GLAD-M25, which is the result of 10 quasi-Newton tomographic iterations with …

Global shear speed structure of the upper mantle and transition zone

AJ Schaeffer, S Lebedev - Geophysical Journal International, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The rapid expansion of broad-band seismic networks over the last decade has paved the
way for a new generation of global tomographic models. Significantly improved resolution of …

S40RTS: a degree-40 shear-velocity model for the mantle from new Rayleigh wave dispersion, teleseismic traveltime and normal-mode splitting function …

J Ritsema, A Deuss, HJ Van Heijst… - Geophysical Journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We have developed model S40RTS of shear-velocity variation in Earth's mantle using a new
collection of Rayleigh wave phase velocity, teleseismic body-wave traveltime and normal …

Global adjoint tomography: first-generation model

E Bozdağ, D Peter, M Lefebvre… - … Supplements to the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present the first-generation global tomographic model constructed based on adjoint
tomography, an iterative full-waveform inversion technique. Synthetic seismograms were …

[BOK][B] Full seismic waveform modelling and inversion

A Fichtner - 2010 - books.google.com
Recent progress in numerical methods and computer science allows us today to simulate
the propagation of seismic waves through realistically heterogeneous Earth models with …

A computational framework for infinite-dimensional Bayesian inverse problems Part I: The linearized case, with application to global seismic inversion

T Bui-Thanh, O Ghattas, J Martin, G Stadler - SIAM Journal on Scientific …, 2013 - SIAM
We present a computational framework for estimating the uncertainty in the numerical
solution of linearized infinite-dimensional statistical inverse problems. We adopt the …

Whole-mantle radially anisotropic shear velocity structure from spectral-element waveform tomography

SW French, BA Romanowicz - Geophysical Journal International, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The radially anisotropic shear velocity structure of the Earth's mantle provides a critical
window on the interior dynamics of the planet, with isotropic variations that are interpreted in …