Tomographic errors from wave front healing: more than just a fast bias

作者：Malcolm Alison E^*; Trampert Jeannot

来源：Geophysical Journal International, 2011, 185(1): 385-402.

DOI：10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04945.x

• Inverse theory
• Seismic tomography
• Computational seismology
• Theoretical seismology
• Wave scattering and diffraction
• Wave propagation

Wave front healing, in which diffractions interfere with directly travelling waves causing a reduction in recorded traveltime delays, has been postulated to cause a bias towards faster estimated earth models. This paper reviews the theory from the mathematical physics community that explains the properties of diffractions and applies it to a suite of increasingly complicated numerical examples. We focus in particular on the elastic case and on the differences between P and S healing. We find that rather than introducing a systemic fast bias, wave front healing gives a more complicated bias in the results of traveltime tomography, with fast anomalies even manifesting themselves as slow anomalies in some situations. Of particular interest, we find that a negative correlation between the bulk and shear or compressional velocities may result to a large extend from healing.

• 出版日期2011-4