Valentine, Andrew P. and Sambridge, Malcolm (2022) 'pyprop8: A lightweight code to simulate seismic observables in a layered half-space.', Journal of Open Source Software, 7 (76). p. 4217.
Abstract
The package pyprop8 enables calculation of the response of a 1-D layered halfspace to a seismic source, and also derivatives (‘sensitivity kernels’) of the wavefield with respect to source parameters. Seismograms, seismic spectra, and measures of static displacement (e.g. GPS, InSAR and field observations) may all be simulated. The method is based on a ThompsonHaskell propagator matrix algorithm, described in O’Toole & Woodhouse (2011) and O’Toole et al. (2012). The package is entirely written in Python, dependent only on the mainstream libraries numpy (Harris et al., 2020) and scipy (Virtanen et al., 2020). As such, it is lightweight and easy to deploy across a variety of platforms, making it particularly suited to use for teaching and outreach purposes.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | The paper describes an open-source software package which is available here: https://github.com/valentineap/pyprop8 or archived as a snapshot with DOI here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7019949. Video/animation produced using the package can be found here: https://valentineap.github.io/2022/08/26/announcing-pyprop8.html |
| Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download PDF (355Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04217 |
| Publisher statement: | Authors of papers retain copyright and release the work under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). |
| Date accepted: | No date available |
| Date deposited: | 31 August 2022 |
| Date of first online publication: | 26 August 2022 |
| Date first made open access: | 31 August 2022 |
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