Imaging the Interior of the Earth with Adjoint Tomography (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Imaging the Interior of the Earth with Adjoint Tomography

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This visualization is the first global tomographic model constructed based on adjoint tomography, an iterative full-waveform inversion technique. The model is a result of data from 253 earthquakes and 15 conjugate gradient iterations with transverse isotropy confined to the upper mantle.

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David Pugmire, ORNL

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