Achievements and prospects of global broadband seismographic networks after 30 years of continuous geophysical observations

AT Ringler, RE Anthony, RC Aster… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global seismographic networks (GSNs) emerged during the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, facilitated by seminal international developments in theory, technology …

Seismic tomography: a window into deep Earth

N Rawlinson, S Pozgay, S Fishwick - Physics of the Earth and Planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the current state of the art in seismic
tomography, and trace its origins from pioneering work in the early 1970s to its present …

S40RTS: a degree-40 shear-velocity model for the mantle from new Rayleigh wave dispersion, teleseismic traveltime and normal-mode splitting function …

J Ritsema, A Deuss, HJ Van Heijst… - Geophysical Journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We have developed model S40RTS of shear-velocity variation in Earth's mantle using a new
collection of Rayleigh wave phase velocity, teleseismic body-wave traveltime and normal …

Seismic tomography, adjoint methods, time reversal and banana-doughnut kernels

J Tromp, C Tape, Q Liu - Geophysical Journal International, 2005 - academic.oup.com
We draw connections between seismic tomography, adjoint methods popular in climate and
ocean dynamics, time-reversal imaging and finite-frequency 'banana-doughnut'kernels. We …

An introduction to full waveform inversion

J Virieux, A Asnaashari, R Brossier… - Encyclopedia of …, 2017 - library.seg.org
Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a high-resolution seismic imaging technique that is based
on using the entire content of seismic traces for extracting physical parameters of the …

Rupture process of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake

CJ Ammon, C Ji, HK Thio, D Robinson, S Ni… - science, 2005 - science.org
The 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake initiated slowly, with small slip and a
slow rupture speed for the first 40 to 60 seconds. Then the rupture expanded at a speed of …

FTI: High performance fault tolerance interface for hybrid systems

L Bautista-Gomez, S Tsuboi, D Komatitsch… - Proceedings of 2011 …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Large scientific applications deployed on current petascale systems expend a significant
amount of their execution time dumping checkpoint files to remote storage. New fault tolerant …

[PDF][PDF] Spectral-element and adjoint methods in seismology

J Tromp, D Komatitsch, Q Liu - Communications in Computational …, 2008 - global-sci.org
We provide an introduction to the use of the spectral-element method (SEM) in seismology.
Following a brief review of the basic equations that govern seismic wave propagation, we …

Adjoint tomography of the southern California crust

C Tape, Q Liu, A Maggi, J Tromp - Science, 2009 - science.org
Using an inversion strategy based on adjoint methods, we developed a three-dimensional
seismological model of the southern California crust. The resulting model involved 16 …

Structure of the European upper mantle revealed by adjoint tomography

H Zhu, E Bozdağ, D Peter, J Tromp - Nature Geoscience, 2012 - nature.com
Images of the European crust and upper mantle, created using seismic tomography, identify
the Cenozoic Rift System and related volcanism in central and western Europe. They also …