HR: 11:20h
AN: S32A-05    [Abstracts]
TI: Finite Frequency Upper Mantle Tomography Using the Spectral Element Method
AU: * Lekic, V
EM: lekic@seismo.berkeley.edu
AF: Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, 215 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
AU: Romanowicz, B
EM: barbara@seismo.berkeley.edu
AF: Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, 215 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
AB: In the past quarter century, global tomography based on ray theory and first-order perturbation methods has imaged long-wavelength velocity heterogeneities of the Earth's mantle. While these models have contributed significantly to our understanding of mantle circulation, the development of higher resolution images of the Earth's interior holds tremendous promise for understanding the nature of the observed heterogeneities. This endeavor confronts us with two challenges. First, it requires extracting a far greater amount of information from the available seismograms than is generally used. Second, the approximate techniques upon which global tomographers have traditionally relied become inadequate when dealing with short-wavelength heterogeneity. We have developed a novel hybrid approach to long-period waveform tomography in which forward-modeling is performed using the Coupled Spectral Element Method (CSEM: Capdeville et al., 2003), which can accurately model seismic wave propagation in a 3D earth with both short and long wavelength structure, while in the inversion step, the sensitivity kernels are calculated using an approximate, non-linear normal mode summation approach (NACT: Li and Romanowicz, 1995). Our dataset consists of complete 3-component time domain seismograms filtered at periods greater than 80 s for 100 earthquakes observed at well over 100 stations of the IRIS/GSN, GEOSCOPE, GEOFON and various regional broadband networks. Modeling is performed in an iterative fashion, and convergence is achieved as long as the sign of the sensitivity kernels is correct. A further advantage of this hybrid approach is that it allows us - for the first time in global tomography - to accurately account for the effects of crustal structure on the observed seismograms. We illustrate these effects and the consequences of common assumptions such as linear crustal corrections. We present a preliminary model of velocity and radial anisotropy variations in the upper 800 km of the mantle, and analyze the consequences of using an accurate 3D forward modeling technique.
DE: 7208 Mantle (1212, 1213, 8124)
DE: 7255 Surface waves and free oscillations
DE: 7270 Tomography (6982, 8180)
DE: 7290 Computational seismology
SC: Seismology [S]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting