Tomographic inversion of bottom parameters in shallow water

Abstract

The possibility of simultaneous reconstruction of the relief and sound speed in the ocean bottom by the mode tomography methods is discussed. In tomographic inversion the region under investigation is divided into stripes with constant parameters to be reconstructed. These stripes form so-called "stripe" basis which was previously used for reconstruction of sound speed perturbation and flows in the the ocean. As a result the scheme of simultaneous reconstruction of all investigated ocean parameters (sound speed, currents and eddies, bottom parameters) can be realized in the unified approach which is based on the stripe basis application. Limitations of the regarded method are discussed and results of numerical simulations are presented.