Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Apr 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011geoji.185..385m&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Journal International, Volume 185, Issue 1, pp. 385-402.
Statistics
Computation
3
Inverse Theory, Seismic Tomography, Computational Seismology, Theoretical Seismology, Wave Scattering And Diffraction, Wave Propagation
Scientific paper
Wave front healing, in which diffractions interfere with directly travelling waves causing a reduction in recorded traveltime delays, has been postulated to cause a bias towards faster estimated earth models. This paper reviews the theory from the mathematical physics community that explains the properties of diffractions and applies it to a suite of increasingly complicated numerical examples. We focus in particular on the elastic case and on the differences between P and S healing. We find that rather than introducing a systemic fast bias, wave front healing gives a more complicated bias in the results of traveltime tomography, with fast anomalies even manifesting themselves as slow anomalies in some situations. Of particular interest, we find that a negative correlation between the bulk and shear or compressional velocities may result to a large extend from healing.
Malcolm Alison E.
Trampert Jeannot
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