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Synthetic Rayleigh wave phase delays and Vsv upper-mantle structure in the Pacific, a synthetic tomography

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British Geological Survey (BGS)
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13 August 2026
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Summary

This repository contains data and inversion results for the SOLA finite-frequency tomography of the Pacific upper-mantle in a synthetic setup. It is related to the paper by Latallerie et al., 2025 in Seismica and more information can be found in this publication. The code repository for the finite-frequency SOLA tomography can be found at Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/FranckLatallerie/sola_ffsw.git The dataset consists of Rayleigh wave phase delays (dispersion) measured on vertical component seismograms for earthquake-receiver pairs across the Pacific hemisphere. Synthetic phase delays are measured on synthetic reference seismogram computed with normal-mode summation using the MINEOS software (e.g. Masters et al., 2011) in the radial reference model stw105 (Kustowski et al., 2008). “Observed” seismograms are synthetic waveforms computed in the 3D model S362ANI (Kustowski et al., 2008), using the SEM solver SPECFEM3DGlobe. These synthetic waveforms have been provided by the GlobalShakeMovie project (Tromp et al., 2010) and were downloaded from the Earthscope (formerly IRIS) Data Management Center (IRIS DMC, 2012) using the network code SY and channel code MXZ. All network and stations used are listed in the Acknowledgements of the accompanying paper. The model represents the vertically polarised shear wave velocity (Vsv) 3D structure of the upper mantle in the Pacific. It is accompanied with full 3D resolution and uncertainty. The 3D tomographic grid is made of voxels of size 2 by 2 degrees laterally, and 25 km vertically, spanning the whole sphere, starting at the surface down to ~400km depth. In the files, the longitude is the fastest varying coordinate, then latitude, followed by radius. The midpoints of the voxels range between 1 and 359 for longitude and between 89 (north) to -89 (south) for latitude, both in steps of 2 degrees, while radius changes from 6358.5 to 5983.5 km inclusive, in steps of 25 km.

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Date added
12 August 2026
Harvest GUID
33ecc53a-2a3e-490f-e063-3050940a8a40
Extent (Latitude)
36.8100° to -53.7600°
Extent (Longitude)
-180.0000° to -114.3400°
Dataset reference date (creation)
2025-04-11
Frequency of update
notApplicable
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
Responsible party
University of Oxford (originator); EOST / CNRS Strasbourg (originator); British Geological Survey (distributor, pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng