membraneSphere
Software package membraneSphere simulates membrane waves over the whole globe.
| Authors: | D. Peter |
|---|---|
| General: | Wave propagation |
| Code level: | Research |
| Language: | Fortran 90/95 or later |
| Associated groups: | Planetary Scale |
| Supercomputing: | Distributed Memory (e.g., MPI) |
| Method: | Finite differences |
| Tested operating system: | Linux |
| Grid type: | Hexagonal |
| Total hits: | 4252 |
Project Description
The finite-differences code written in Fortran90 propagates membrane waves over the whole sphere. It also includes the adjoint method to calculate phase-delay sensitivity kernels with respect to phase-velocities for seismic surface waves.
More details about the method can be found here:
Tanimoto, T., 1990. Model ling curved surface wave paths: membrane surface wave
synthetics, Geophys. J. Int., 102, 89–100.
Tape, C. H., 2003. Waves on a Spherical Membrane, M.Sc. thesis, University of Oxford, U.K.
Peter, D., C. Tape, L. Boschi and J. H. Woodhouse, 2007. Surface wave tomography:
global membrane waves and adjoint methods, Geophys. J. Int., , 171: p. 1098-1117.