TY - JOUR AU - Pejić Tanja, Tkalčić Hrvoje PY - 2017// TI - Attenuation tomography of the upper inner core KW - attenuation inner core tomography N2 - Abstract The solidification of the Earth's inner core shapes its texture and rheology, affecting the attenuation and scattering of seismic body waves transmitted through it. Applying attenuation tomography in a Bayesian framework to 398 high?quality PKIKP waveforms, we invert for the apparent Qp for the uppermost 400?km below the inner core boundary at latitudes 45°S to 45°N. We use damping and smoothing for regularization of the inversion, and it seems that the smoothing regularization combined with the discrepancy principle works better for this particular problem of attenuation tomography. The results are consistent with a regional variation in inner core attenuation more complex than hemispherical, suggesting coupling between inner core solidification and the thermal structure of the lowermost mantle. SN - 2169-9313 SN - 2169-9313 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016JB013692 N1 - exported from refbase (http://publi.ipev.fr/polar_references/show.php?record=6767), last updated on Sat, 29 Jun 2024 18:37:06 +0200 ID - PejicTanja2017 ER -