Sv-velocity structure of the upper mantle
(crust–660 km) is constrained by the Automated
Multimode Inversion of surface and S-wave forms
[Lebedev et al., 2005], applied to a large global
data set retreived from IRIS facilities [Lebedev
and van der Hilst, 2008]. Structure of the mantle
and crust is constrained by waveform information
from both the fundamental mode Rayleigh waves
(periods from 20 to 400 s) and S and multiple S
waves (higher modes). The reference model used
in the waveform inversions and the tomographic
linear inversion incorporates 3-D crustal structure.
The tomographic model includes isotropic
variations in S- and P-wave velocities and also
S-wave azimuthal anisotropy. The lateral resolution
of the imaging is a few hundred kilometres,
varying with data sampling.