Dynamic ray tracing and traveltime corrections for global seismic tomography

✍ Scribed by Yue Tian; S.-H. Hung; Guust Nolet; Raffaella Montelli; F.A. Dahlen

• Book ID: 104021651
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 684 KB
• Volume: 226
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9991
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.04.025

✦ Synopsis

We present a dynamic ray tracing program for a spherically symmetric Earth that may be used to compute Fre ´chet kernels for traveltime and amplitude anomalies at finite frequency. The program works for arbitrarily defined phases and background models. The numerical precisions of kinematic and dynamic ray tracing are optimized to produce traveltime errors under 0.1 s, which is well below the data uncertainty in global seismology. This tolerance level is obtained for an integration step size of about 20 km for the most common seismic phases. We also give software to compute ellipticity, crustal and topographic corrections and attenuation.