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 …

[BOG][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 …

Full waveform inversion and the truncated Newton method

L Métivier, R Brossier, J Virieux, S Operto - SIAM Journal on Scientific …, 2013 - SIAM
Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a powerful method for reconstructing subsurface
parameters from local measurements of the seismic wavefield. This method consists in …

Multiscale full waveform inversion

A Fichtner, J Trampert, P Cupillard… - Geophysical Journal …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We develop and apply a full waveform inversion method that incorporates seismic data on a
wide range of spatio-temporal scales, thereby constraining the details of both crustal and …

The seismic mid-lithosphere discontinuity

K Selway, H Ford, P Kelemen - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Seismic S-wave receiver functions (SRF) are a uniquely powerful tool for imaging velocity
discontinuities within the upper mantle. SRF data frequently contain negative phases at …

An optimal transport approach for seismic tomography: Application to 3D full waveform inversion

L Métivier, R Brossier, Q Merigot, E Oudet… - Inverse …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The use of optimal transport distance has recently yielded significant progress in image
processing for pattern recognition, shape identification, and histograms matching. In this …

Seismic structure of the European upper mantle based on adjoint tomography

H Zhu, E Bozdağ, J Tromp - Geophysical Journal International, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We use adjoint tomography to iteratively determine seismic models of the crust and upper
mantle beneath the European continent and the North Atlantic Ocean. Three-component …