Regional tomographic inversion of the amplitude and phase of Rayleigh waves with 2-D sensitivity kernels

Details Regional tomographic inversion of the amplitude and phase of Rayleigh waves with 2-D sensitivity kernels Regional tomographic inversion of the amplitude and phase of Rayleigh waves with 2-D sensitivity kernels

Sep 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006geoji.166.1148y&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 166, Issue 3, pp. 1148-1160.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

38

Sensitivity Kernels, Surface Waves, Tomography

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In this study, we test the adequacy of 2-D sensitivity kernels for fundamental-mode Rayleigh waves based on the single-scattering (Born) approximation to account for the effects of heterogeneous structure on the wavefield in a regional surface wave study. The calculated phase and amplitude data using the 2-D sensitivity kernels are compared to phase and amplitude data obtained from seismic waveforms synthesized by the pseudo-spectral method for plane Rayleigh waves propagating through heterogeneous structure. We find that the kernels can accurately predict the perturbation of the wavefield even when the size of anomaly is larger than one wavelength. The only exception is a systematic bias in the amplitude within the anomaly itself due to a site response.
An inversion method of surface wave tomography based on the sensitivity kernels is developed and applied to synthesized data obtained from a numerical simulation modelling Rayleigh wave propagation over checkerboard structure. By comparing recovered images to input structure, we illustrate that the method can almost completely recover anomalies within an array of stations when the size of the anomalies is larger than or close to one wavelength of the surface waves. Surface wave amplitude contains important information about Earth structure and should be inverted together with phase data in surface wave tomography.

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