S43B:
Imaging the Earth IX Imaging Seismic Anisotropy and Attenuation + Theoretical Developments Posters

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Paula Koelemeijer, University of Cambridge, Bullard Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Primary Conveners:  Monica Maceira, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Andreas Fichtner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Paula Koelemeijer, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland and Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Andreas Fichtner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Body-wave Attenuation in the South-Central Region of the Gulf of California, México
Raul Ramon Castro1,2, Claudia A Vidales-Basurto2, Carlos I Huerta3, Danielle F Sumy4, James B Gaherty5 and John A Collins6, (1)CICESE Seismology, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)CICESE, Sismologia, Ensenada, Mexico, (3)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Civil Engineering and Surveying, Mayaguez, PR, United States, (4)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)Columbia University in the City of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
An Objective Rationale for the Choice of Regularisation Parameter with Application to Global Multiple-Frequency S-Wave Tomography
Christophe Zaroli1, Malcolm Sambridge2, Jean-Jacques Leveque1, Eric Debayle3 and Guust Nolet4, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex, France, (2)Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (3)LGLTPE Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon : Terre, Planètes et Environnement, Villeurbanne Cedex, France, (4)GeoAzur, Valbonne, France
 
Attenuation Tomography of the Upper Mantle
Alice Adenis, Eric Debayle and Yanick R Ricard, LGLTPE Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon : Terre, Planètes et Environnement, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
 
Global S-Wave Tomography Using Receiver Pairs: An Alternative to Get Rid of Earthquake Mislocation
J-Jacques Leveque, EOST École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, Strasbourg Cedex, France; CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, Christophe Zaroli, Institut de Physique du Globe Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex, France, Bernhard S. A. Schuberth, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Zacharie Duputel, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Guust Nolet, GeoAzur, Valbonne, France
 
Sensitivity of Coda Waves to Lateral Variations of Absorption and Scattering: Radiative Transfer Theory and 2-D Examples
Jessie Mayor, Ludovic Margerin and Marie Calvet, IRAP - Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
 
New Zealand-Wide 3-D Qp Attenuation Model: Low Qp North Island Crust Contrasts with High Qp South Island Terranes
Donna M Eberhart-Phillips, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Science, Davis, CA, United States, Martin Reyners, GNS Science-Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand and Stephen C Bannister, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
 
Anisotropic Shear Velocity Models of the North American Upper Mantle Based on Waveform Inversion and Numerical Wavefield Computations.
Clouzet Pierre1, Yder Masson1, Barbara A Romanowicz2,3, Scott W French4 and Huaiyu Yuan5, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (2)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Collège de France, Paris, France, (3)Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Macquarie University, CCFS, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
Sn Attenuation in the Iranian and Tibetan Plateaus
Wenfei Ku, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States, Ayoub Kaviani, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, Xueyang Bao, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, James Christopher, Geological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States and Eric A Sandvol, Univ Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States
 
Numerical Solution of Poroelastic Wave Equation Using Nodal Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method
Khemraj Shukla1, Yanqiu Wang1 and Priyank Jaiswal2, (1)Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States, (2)Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States
 
Anisotropy in the Pacific Upper Mantle from Inversion of a Combined Global and Regional Dispersion Dataset
Celia L Eddy, Goran Ekstrom, Meredith Nettles and James B Gaherty, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 

Solving the 3D Acoustic Wave-equation on Generalized Structured Meshes: A FDTD Approach

Jeffrey C Shragge, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
 
Three-dimensional Distribution of Azimuthal and Radial Anisotropy in the Japan Subduction
Motoko Ishise1, Hitoshi Kawakatsu1 and Katsuhiko Shiomi2, (1)Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (2)NIED National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan
 
Seismic Attenuation beneath Tateyama Volcano, Central Japan
Koji Iwata, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan, Hironori Kawakata, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu Shiga, Japan and Issei Doi, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
 
A radial anisotropy model of the upper mantle from surface wave observations
Tak Ming Ho1, Eric Debayle2, Keith F Priestley1 and Chris H Chapman3, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)LGLTPE : Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon : Terre, Planètes et Environnement, Université Lyon 1, ENS Lyon and CNRS, Lyon, France, (3)Schlumberger Gould Research Center, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
2D Global Attenuation Model of the Upper Mantle from Combined Analysis of Surface Wave Phase and Amplitude Data
Zhitu Ma and Guy Masters, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Computing Sensitivity Kernels of Noise Correlations with Respect to Noise Sources
Laurent Stehly, ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, Ludovic Margerin, IRAP - Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse, France and Pierre Boué, Univ Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
 
Empirical sensitivity kernels of noise correlations with respect to virtual sources
Pierre Boué1, Laurent Stehly2, Nori Nakata1 and Gregory C Beroza1, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Martin d'Hères, France
 
Cross-gradient Constrained Seismic Velocity and Attenuation Tomography of the Aftershock Zone of the 2013 Mw 6.6 Lushan Earthquake, China
Xin Zhang, USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China and Haijiang Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
 
Application of Time-window Selection Method in Tomography with Topographic Effects
Erdi Wei1, Wei Zhang2 and Xiaofei Chen2, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
 
Qs-values in the Southern Korean Peninsula Area
Inho Kim1,2, Jung Mo Lee2, Hyun-Moo Cho1 and Dong Hun Lee2, (1)KIGAM Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea, (2)Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
 
Seismic Velocity and Attenuation Tomography of the Tonga Arc and Lau Back-arc Basin
Songqiao Shawn Wei, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, Yang Zha, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Douglas A Wiens, Washington University in St Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States and Spahr C Webb, Lamont Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Comparison of misfit functions for phase-only inversion in the frequency domain
Gangwon Jeong, Woodon Jeong and Dong-Joo Min, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
 
Parameterization of density estimation in full waveform well-to-well tomography
Keisuke Teranishi, Hitoshi Mikada, Tada-nori Goto and Junichi Takekawa, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
 
Teleseismic Body-Wave Attenuation beneath the Western and Central United States
Bin Yang, Cory A Reed, Kelly Hong Liu and Stephen S Gao, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States
 
Synthetic normal-mode spectra: a full-coupling perspective
Hsin-Ying Yang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and Jeroen Tromp, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Apply Seismic Migration Technique to Teleseismic Receiver Functions
Shaoqian Hu and Lupei Zhu, Saint Louis University Main Campus, Saint Louis, MO, United States
 
Waveform Inversion of Synthetic Ocean Models in the Laplace Domain
Hayley Rosado1, Tanya M Blacic1, Hyunggu Jun2 and Changsoo Shin2, (1)Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, United States, (2)Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
 
A New Method to Minimize the Influence of Lateral Heterogeneity on Inversion Applying Triplicated Phases
Jiaqi Li1, Chen Cai2, Dou Kang1 and Jieyuan Ning1, (1)School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
 
Waveform inversion schemes for 3D density structure
Nienke Blom, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands and Andreas Fichtner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
The impact of crustal density variations on seismic wave propagation
Agnieszka Plonka, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands and Andreas Fichtner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
High Resolution Models of Regional Phase Attenuation and Velocity Structure of the Turkish-Iranian Plateau and Zagros
Ayoub Kaviani1, Eric A Sandvol2, Xueyang Bao3, Rengin Gok4 and Georg Rumpker1, (1)Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, (2)Univ Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States, (3)Brown University, Department of Geological Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (4)LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Frequency dependent Lg attenuation in Northeast China and Korean Peninsula
Nishath R Ranasinghe1, Andrea C Gallegos1, Andrea R Trujillo1, Alexander Robert Blanchette2, Thomas M Hearn1, Eric A Sandvol3, James Ni4, Stephen P Grand5, Fenglin Niu6, Yongshun John Chen7, Jieyuan Ning7, Hitoshi Kawakatsu8, Satoru Tanaka9 and Masayuki Obayashi10, (1)New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (2)Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Univ Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States, (4)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (5)University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States, (6)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (7)Peking University, Beijing, China, (8)Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (9)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (10)IFREE, JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan
 
Sn Attenuation Model in Tibetan Region and its Geodynamic Implications to Plateau Formation
Lianfeng Zhao1, Xiao-Bi Xie2, Na Fan1 and ZhenXing Yao1, (1)IGG Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Univ California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
A highly attennuative zone beneath the Tokyo Metropolitan area.
Yannis Panayotopoulos1, Naoshi Hirata1, Shin'ichi Sakai1, Shigeki Nakagawa1 and Keiji Kasahara2, (1)Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Association for the Development of Earthquake Prediction, Tokyo, Japan
 
Imaging the Juan de Fuca subduction plate using 3D Kirchoff Prestack Depth Migration
Cheng Cheng1, Thomas Bodin1, Richard M Allen1 and Benoit Tauzin2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, Université de Lyon I, CNRS and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, UMR5570, Villeurbanne, France
 
Hybrid optimization methods for Full Waveform Inversion
Debanjan Datta and Mrinal K Sen, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Data inversion immune to cycle-skipping using AWI
Lluis Guasch1, Mike Warner1, Adrian Umpleby1, Gang Yao1 and Joanna V Morgan2, (1)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
 
Shear-wave splitting across the central Appalachian Mountains using USARRAY and PASEIS data
Austin White-Gaynor, Andrew Nyblade and Kyle Homman, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
 
ASDF: A New Adaptable Data Format for Seismology Suitable for Large-Scale Workflows
Lion Krischer1, James A Smith2, Alessandro Spinuso3 and Jeroen Tromp2, (1)Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany, (2)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, 3730, Netherlands
 
Crustal and Mantle Structure Beneath the Iles Eparses (Mozambique Channel, Indian Ocean)
Fabrice R. Fontaine1, Guilhem Barruol2, Céline Davy1, Vera S N Schlindwein3 and Karin Sigloch4, (1)Université de La Réunion, Laboratoire Géosciences, Saint Denis, Reunion, (2)CNRS, IPG Paris, Universite de La Reunion, Saint Denis Cedex 9, France, (3)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (4)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Surface Wave Scattering and Mode Coupling: Implications for Surface Wave Tomography
Arjun Datta1, Keith F Priestley1 and Chris H Chapman2, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)Schlumberger Gould Research Center, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
Seismic Attenuation Structure beneath Harrat Lunayyir, northern Arabian shield
Nassir Saad Al-Arifi1, Sami El khrepy1,2, Ivan Koulakov3 and I Sychev4, (1)King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, (2)National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, NRIAG, seismology, Cairo,helwan, Egypt, (3)IPGG SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, (4)Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS, Prospekt Koptyuga, 3, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation, Prospekt Koptyuga, RI, Russia
 
TOTAL-FIELD/SCATTERED-FIELD TECHNIQUE FOR 3-D MODELING OF SHORT PERIOD TELESEISMIC WAVES
Vadim Monteiller1, Stephen Beller1, Stéphane Operto1, Tarje Nissen-Meyer2, Josue Tago Pacheco3 and Jean Virieux4, (1)GeoAzur, Valbonne, France, (2)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (4)University Joseph Fourier Grenoble, Grenboble, France
 
CHINA AMPLITUDE TOMOGRAPHY
Thomas M Hearn, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States
 
Seismic Attenuation Tomography of the Rupture Zone of the 2010 Maule, Chile, Earthquake
Megan E Torpey, Raymond M Russo and Mark P Panning, Univ of FL-Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States
 
Accuracy and Stability of the Interior-Penalty Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Acoustic and Elastic Wave Propagation
Jonas D De Basabe, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, San Diego, CA, United States; CICESE National Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Mexico, Seismology, Ensenada, Mexico
 
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