Upper mantle shear attenuation model QRLW8

Yuancheng Gung and Barbara Romanowicz, "Q tomography of the upper mantle using three component long period waveforms", submitted, 2003. ( view abstract )

See also:
Barbara Romanowicz and Yuancheng Gung, " Superplumes from the core-mantle boundary to the lithosphere", Science, 296, 513-516. download pdf reprint

Model parametrization:
The model is parametrized laterally in spherical harmonics up to degree 8 and radially in 7 unevenly spaced splines.

Figures

Lateral sections of QRLW8
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For all enquiries, please contact Yuancheng Gung:

gung@seismo.berkeley.edu