An inverse method using toroidal mode data

Abstract

The author presents a numerical method for calculating the density and S-wave velocity in the upper mantle of a spherically symmetric, non-rotating Earth which consists of a perfect elastic, isotropic material. The data comes from the periods of the toroidal oscillations. She tests the method on a smoothed version of model A. The error in the reconstruction is less than 1 %. The effects of perturbations in the eigenvalues are studied and she finds that the final model is sensitive to errors in the data .