From ACH tomographic models to absolute velocity models

Details From ACH tomographic models to absolute velocity models From ACH tomographic models to absolute velocity models

Jun 1999

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Geophysical Journal International, Volume 137, Issue 3, pp. 621-629.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

16

Inverse Problem, P Waves, Seismic Tomography, Tibet

Scientific paper

The ACH method, a widely used tomographic inverse method, is characterized by the use of relative residuals in order to avoid possible biases coming from outside the target volume. The ACH method thus does not really retrieve the 3-D structure of the target volume, but instead leads to velocity contrasts relative to the layer average of the velocity, this average value remaining unknown (Aki et al. 1977). Two artefacts derive from this particularity: (1) velocity contrasts are known only in the horizontal direction and it is not possible, in a strict mathematical sense, to estimate the contrasts in the vertical direction with ACH alone; (2) negative anomalies are often interpreted as low velocities, whereas negative anomalies may correspond to high velocities if the average value of the corresponding layer is sufficiently high. The converse is true of positive anomalies. We show with synthetic data how these artefacts can affect the interpretation of tomographic images. We propose to correct the artefacts by reintroducing the 1-D regional average model, and show in synthetic experiments how effective this correction can be. The application of this procedure to data recorded in the Kunlun region shows that the retrieval of the absolute values of the 3-D velocity model is helpful for interpreting the tomographic images and better defining which features are anomalous.

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