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GLAD-M35: a joint P and S global tomographic model with uncertainty quantification

Congyue Cui, Wenjie Lei, Qiancheng Liu, Daniel Peter, E. Bozdağ, Jeroen Tromp, Judith Hill, Norbert Podhorszki, David Pugmire

2024Geophysical Journal International42 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

SUMMARY We present our third and final generation joint P and S global adjoint tomography (GLAD) model, GLAD-M35, and quantify its uncertainty based on a low-rank approximation of the inverse Hessian. Starting from our second-generation model, GLAD-M25, we added 680 new earthquakes to the database for a total of 2160 events. New P-wave categories are included to compensate for the imbalance between P- and S-wave measurements, and we enhanced the window selection algorithm to include more major-arc phases, providing better constraints on the structure of the deep mantle and more than doubling the number of measurement windows to 40 million. Two stages of a Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (BFGS) quasi-Newton inversion were performed, each comprising five iterations. With this BFGS update history, we determine the model’s standard deviation and resolution length through randomized singular value decomposition.

Topics & Concepts

Uncertainty quantificationInverse theoryJoint (building)GeologySeismologyMathematicsStatisticsEngineeringOceanographyDeformation (meteorology)Architectural engineeringSeismic Imaging and Inversion TechniquesHydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysisMedical Imaging Techniques and Applications