Seismic imaging: From classical to adjoint tomography

Q Liu, YJ Gu - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
Seismic tomography has been a vital tool in probing the Earth's internal structure and
enhancing our knowledge of dynamical processes in the Earth's crust and mantle. While …

Full‐3‐D tomography for crustal structure in southern California based on the scattering‐integral and the adjoint‐wavefield methods

EJ Lee, P Chen, TH Jordan… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We have successfully applied full‐3‐D tomography (F3DT) based on a combination of the
scattering‐integral method (SI‐F3DT) and the adjoint‐wavefield method (AW‐F3DT) to …

3D heterogeneous staggered-grid finite-difference modeling of seismic motion with volume harmonic and arithmetic averaging of elastic moduli and densities

P Moczo, J Kristek, V Vavrycuk… - Bulletin of the …, 2002 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We analyze the problem of a heterogeneous formulation of the equation of motion and
propose a new 3D fourth-order staggered-grid finite-difference (FD) scheme for modeling …

Gaussian process regression reviewed in the context of inverse theory

W Menke, R Creel - Surveys in Geophysics, 2021 - Springer
We review Gaussian process regression (GPR) and analyze it in the context of Inverse
Theory—the collection of techniques used in geophysics (among other fields) to understand …

Rapid full-wave centroid moment tensor (CMT) inversion in a three-dimensional earth structure model for earthquakes in Southern California

EJ Lee, P Chen, TH Jordan… - Geophysical Journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
A central problem of seismology is the inversion of regional waveform data for models of
earthquake sources. In regions such as Southern California, preliminary 3-D earth structure …

Effects of shallow‐velocity reductions on 3D propagation of seismic waves

A Juarez, Y Ben‐Zion - Seismological Society of …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We perform 3D simulations of seismic wavefields to clarify effects of strong reductions of
shallow velocities on long‐period seismic waves. The simulations use a reference …

Full-wave seismic data assimilation: theoretical background and recent advances

P Chen - Pure and applied geophysics, 2011 - Springer
The seismological inverse problem has much in common with the data assimilation problem
found in meteorology and oceanography. Using the data assimilation methodology, I will …

Automating seismic waveform analysis for full 3-D waveform inversions

EJ Lee, P Chen - Geophysical Journal International, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We present a semi-automatic seismic waveform selection algorithm that can be used in full 3-
D waveform inversions for earthquake source parameters and/or earth structure models. The …

Finite‐Frequency Delay Times of Phase Segments for Body Waves

Y Jiang, X Chen - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We propose a new way of measuring the delay times of body waves, based on the time
differences between short segments of a phase. Using this proposed methodology, which …

Sensitivity kernel for the weighted norm of the frequency-dependent phase correlation

Z Xu, P Chen, Y Chen - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2013 - Springer
Full-3D waveform tomography (F3DT) is often formulated as an optimization problem, in
which an objective function defined in terms of the misfit between observed and model …