Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; February 2006; v. 96; no. 1;
p. 1-10; DOI: 10.1785/0120050036
© Seismological Society of America
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Figure 1. (A) Frame-based Gaussian beam decomposition. Initial wave fields are
decomposed into Gaussian windowed beam components that are then launched at
different angles into the medium. (B) Example of the backpropagation of a single
Gaussian beam with a low-frequency initial beam width of 30 km for a
pPp phase for the model shown in
Figure 2.