Sensitivity kernels for viscoelastic loading based on adjoint methods

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Authors: Al-Attar, David, Tromp, Jeroen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Astronomical Society 2014
• Subjects: 02 - Geodynamics; Geophysics and Tectonics; Lagrange; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/2946/; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/2946/1/Geophys.%20J.%20Int.-2014-Al-Attar-34-77.pdf; http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/content/196/1/34; https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggt395

Observations of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) allow for inferences to be made about mantle viscosity, ice sheet history and other related parameters. Typically, this inverse problem can be formulated as minimizing the misfit between the given observations and a corresponding set of synthetic da...