Seismic tomography 2023
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Abstract
Seismic tomography is the most abundant source of information about the internal structure of the Earth at scales ranging from a few meters to thousands of kilometers. It constrains the properties of active volcanoes, earthquake fault zones, deep reservoirs and storage sites, glaciers and ice sheets, or the entire globe. It contributes to outstanding societal problems related to natural hazards, resource exploration, underground storage, and many more. The recent advances in seismic tomography are being translated to nondestructive testing, medical ultrasound, and helioseismology. Nearly 50 yr after its first successful applications, this article offers a snapshot of modern seismic tomography. Focused on major challenges and particularly promising research directions, it is intended to guide both Earth science professionals and early‐career scientists. The individual contributions by the coauthors provide diverse perspectives on topics that may at first seem disconnected but are closely tied together by a few coherent threads: multiparameter inversion for properties related to dynamic processes, data quality, and geographic coverage, uncertainty quantification that is useful for geologic interpretation, new formulations of tomographic inverse problems that address concrete geologic questions more directly, and the presentation and quantitative comparison of tomographic models. It remains to be seen which of these problems will be considered solved, solved to some extent, or practically unsolvable over the next decade.
Suggested Citation
Fichtner, A., Kennett, B., Tsai, V.C., Thurber, C., Rodgers, A., Tape, C., Rawlinson, N., Borcherdt, R.D., Lebedev, S., Priestley, K., Morency, C., Bozdag, E., Tromp, J., Ritsema, J., Romanowicz, B., Liu, Q., Golos, E., Lin, F., 2024, Seismic tomography 2023: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 114, no. 3, p. 1185-1213, https://doi.org/10.1785/0120230229.
ISSN: 1943-3573 (online)
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Seismic tomography 2023 |
| Series title | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America |
| DOI | 10.1785/0120230229 |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication Date | May 03, 2024 |
| Year Published | 2024 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Seismological Society of America |
| Contributing office(s) | Earthquake Science Center |
| Description | 29 p. |
| First page | 1185 |
| Last page | 1213 |