Inference of the Lateral Heterogeneity of the Earth from the Eigenfrequency Spectrum: a Linear Inverse Problem |
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Authors: | F A Dahlen |
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Institution: | Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540. |
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Abstract: | Summary We consider the problem of inferring information about the lateral heterogeneity of the Earth's physical properties given certain measurements of the eigenfrequency splitting of the elastic-gravitational normal mode multiplets. We show that this problem can be formulated as a series of exactly linear inverse problems; the data which are relevant to at least the first two of these linear inversions can be measured without having to resolve fully the normal mode multiplets. |
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