Andreas Fichtner

(Seismology, Numerical Simulation)

Andreas Fichtner

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Geophysics
Munich University
Theresienstr. 41
80333 Munich
Germany

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Publications

• Kremers, Simon, Andreas Fichtner, Gilbert B. Brietzke, Heiner Igel, Carene Larmat, Lianjie Huang, and Martin Käser (2011), Exploring the potentials and limitations of the time-reversal imaging of finite seismic sources, Solid Earth, 95-105, doi:10.5194/se-2-95-2011.

• Fichtner, Andreas, Maarten De Wit, and Manfred van Bergen (2010), Subduction of continental lithosphere in the Banda Sea region: Combining evidence from full waveform tomography and isotope ratios, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 297, 405-412.
• Fichtner, Andreas, Brian L. N. Kennett, Heiner Igel, and Hans-Peter Bunge (2010), Full waveform tomography for radially anisotropic structure: New insights into present and past states of the Australasian upper mantle, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 290(3-4), 270-280.
• Fichtner, Andreas, and Hrvoje Tkalcic (2010), Insights into the kinematics of a volcanic caldera drop: Probabilisitc finite-source inversion of the 1996 Bardarbunga, Iceland, earthquake, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 297, 607-615.
• Fichtner, Andreas (2010), Full Seismic Waveform Modelling and Inversion, Springer Verlag.
• Hermann, Verena, Nguyen Dhin Pham, Andreas Fichtner, Simon Kremers, Hans-Peter Bunge, and Heiner Igel (2010), Advances in modelling and inversion of seismic wave propagation, vol. 3, 293-306, Springer.

• Bernauer, Moritz, Andreas Fichtner, and Heiner Igel (2009), Inferring Earth structure from combined measurements of rotational and translational ground motions, Geophysics, Volume 74(Issue 6), WCD41-WCD47, doi:10.1190/1.3211110.
• Fichtner, Andreas, Heiner Igel, Hans-Peter Bunge, and Brian L. N. Kennett (2009), Simulation and inversion of seismic wave propagation on continental scales based on a spectral-element method, Journal of Numerical Analysis, Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 4(1-2), 11-22.
• Fichtner, Andreas, and Heiner Igel (2009), Sensitivity densities for rotational ground motion measurements, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 99, 1302-1314.
• Fichtner, Andreas, Brian L. N. Kennett, Heiner Igel, and Hans-Peter Bunge (2009), Full waveform tomography for upper-mantle structure in the Australasian region using adjoint methods, Geophys. J. Int., 179(3), 1703-1725.
• Fichtner, Andreas (2009), Full waveform inversion for structural and source parameters, PhD Thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, (PDF 67MB).

• Fichtner, Andreas, and Heiner Igel (2008), Efficient numerical surface wave propagation through the optimization of discrete crustal models - a technique based on non-linear dispersion curve matching (DCM), Geophys. J. Int., 173(2), 519-533.
• Fichtner, Andreas, Brian L. N. Kennett, Heiner Igel, and Hans-Peter Bunge (2008), Theoretical background for continental and global scale full-waveform inversion in the time-frequency domain, Geophys. J. Int., 175(2), 665-685, [Winner of the 2008 Student Paper Award of the Geophysical Journal International.].

• Fichtner, A., H.-P. Bunge, and H. Igel (2006), The adjoint method in seismology: I - Theory, Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, 157(1-2), 86-104, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2006.03.016.
• Fichtner, A., P. Bunge, and H. Igel (2006), The adjoint method in seismology: II - Applications: traveltimes and sensitivity functionals, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 157(1-2), 105-123, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2006.03.018.

• Fichtner, A. (2005), Adjoint models in seismology: waveform inversion beyond the ray approximation, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, pp. 918-921.
• Fichtner, A. (2005), Seismic noise recorded at broadband station MELI, Technical Report, Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada Espanola.
• Sproessig, W., and A. Fichtner (2005), Vektoranalysis, EAGLE Publishing House.