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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lei, Wenjie
• Ruan, Youyi
• Bozdağ, Ebru
• Peter, Daniel
• Lefebvre, Matthieu
• Komatitsch, Dimitri
• Tromp, Jeroen
• Hill, Judith
• Podhorszki, Norbert
• Pugmire, David

Titel

Global adjoint tomography—model GLAD-M25

Ist Teil von

• Geophysical journal international, 2020-10, Vol.223 (1), p.1-21

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• SUMMARY Building on global adjoint tomography model GLAD-M15, we present transversely isotropic global model GLAD-M25, which is the result of 10 quasi-Newton tomographic iterations with an earthquake database consisting of 1480 events in the magnitude range 5.5 ≤ Mw ≤ 7.2, an almost sixfold increase over the first-generation model. We calculated fully 3-D synthetic seismograms with a shortest period of 17 s based on a GPU-accelerated spectral-element wave propagation solver which accommodates effects due to 3-D anelastic crust and mantle structure, topography and bathymetry, the ocean load, ellipticity, rotation and self-gravitation. We used an adjoint-state method to calculate Fréchet derivatives in 3-D anelastic Earth models facilitated by a parsimonious storage algorithm. The simulations were performed on the Cray XK7 ‘Titan’ and the IBM Power 9 ‘Summit’ at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. We quantitatively evaluated GLAD-M25 by assessing misfit reductions and traveltime anomaly histograms in 12 measurement categories. We performed similar assessments for a held-out data set consisting of 360 earthquakes, with results comparable to the actual inversion. We highlight the new model for a variety of plumes and subduction zones.