S42A:
Imaging the Earth VIII Theoretical Developments

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Monica Maceira, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Conveners:  Monica Maceira, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Andreas Fichtner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Paula Koelemeijer, University of Cambridge, Bullard Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons:  Andreas Fichtner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Wavelet-based multiscale adjoint waveform-difference tomography using body and surface waves
Yanhua O. Yuan1, Frederik J Simons1 and Ebru Bozdag2, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Geoazur, Valbonne, France
10:35 AM
 
Accelerated Source-Encoding Full-Waveform Inversion with Additional Constraints
Christian Boehm1, Andreas Fichtner1 and Michael Ulbrich2, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
10:50 AM
 
Green's Functions for Surface Waves in a Generic Velocity Structure
Victor C Tsai and Sarun Atiganyanun, Caltech-Seismological Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States
11:05 AM
 
Accounting for propagation outside of the model boundaries in regional full waveform inversion based on adjoint methods
Yder Masson1, Clouzet Pierre2, Barbara A Romanowicz3,4, Scott W French3 and Huaiyu Yuan5, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (2)University Denis Diderot Paris VII, Paris Cedex 13, France, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Collège de France, Paris, France, (5)Macquarie University, CCFS, Sydney, NSW, Australia
11:20 AM
 
A Nonparametric Approach to Automated S-Wave Picking
Chris Rawles, Univ of Wisconsin- Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Clifford H Thurber, Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
11:35 AM
 
Does Accuracy Matter? the Role of Approximations in Geophysical Inverse Theory
Jeannot Trampert and Andrew P Valentine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
11:50 AM
 
Direct ambient noise tomography for 3-D near surface shear velocity structure: methodology and applications
Huajian Yao1, Hongjian Fang1, Cheng Li1, Ying Liu1, Haijiang Zhang1, Robert D van der Hilst2 and Yu-Chih Huang3, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
12:05 PM
 
Numerical Resolution of Seismic Wavefield Simulations in Southern California
Carl Tape, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Emanuele Casarotti, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy
 
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