Contents

• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• A note on the LITHOS graphical user interface
• Introduction to Jive3D
  • What Jive3D is designed to do
  • How it works
  • System requirements
  • LITHOS User Interface
    • Directory structure
• Installation and configuration
  • Compiling the utilities
  • Compiling under the LITHOS User Interface
• Setting up an inversion
  • Building a starting model (.mod file)
    • Model dimensions
    • No. of layers
    • Interface XY range
    • Grid Size
    • Interface Grid
    • S/P Ratio
    • Layer XYZ range
    • Grid dimensions
    • Velocity grid
    • A sample .mod file
  • Geometry and ray-tracing (.trc file)
    • Survey geometry
    • No. of sources
    • Source positions
    • Receiver z-plane
    • Raytracing numerical parameters
    • No. wide-angle ray phases
    • No. trace specifications
    • No. segments
    • Layer sequence
    • S/P sequence
    • Theta range
    • A sample .trc file
    • No. of rays (theta)
    • Phi range
    • No. of rays (phi)
    • No. normal-incidence ray phases
    • No. trace specifications
    • No. segments
    • Layer sequence
    • S/P sequence
    • X range
    • No. of rays (x)
    • Y range
    • No. of rays (y)
    • Distance tolerance
    • Log
    • Ray Log
  • The travel-time data (.tim file)
    • A sample .tim file
  • The inversion path (.inv file)
    • Process type
    • No. of dimensions
    • Interfaces to invert
    • Layers to invert
    • Smoothing parameter
    • General smoothing levels
    • Individual smoothing levels
    • No. of coupled parameter sets
    • No. of inversion steps
    • Inversion path
    • Log
    • Residual Log
    • A sample .inv file
• Running jive3d
  • Setting up the file arraylim.dat
    • A sample arraylim.dat file
  • The on-screen commentary
  • Output files
    • The .out.wa file
      • A sample .out.wa file
    • The .out.ni file
    • The .out.seg file
      • A sample .out.seg file
    • The .out.res file
      • A sample .out.res file
    • The .out.rays file
    • The .out.pd file
    • The .out.inv file
      • A sample .out.inv file
    • The .out.log file
    • The .out.invlog file
  • Plotting models, ray paths and data residuals
    • The plotslice script
    • The plotvsp script
    • The plotrays script
    • The posplot script
    • The resplot script
• Uncertainty analysis
  • Running calcerr
    • A sample .out.err file
• The Art of Jive
  • General modelling strategies
  • Modelling 1-D and 2-D data sets
  • From 1-D to 2-D and 3-D models
  • Choosing a starting model
  • Finding a suitable inversion path
  • A warning regarding B-splines
  • Troubleshooting
    • The data `Hit rate' is very low
    • Models do not converge within a step
    • Models converge, but on an ever-decreasing proportion of the data
• Warnings and Error messages
  • Warnings
  • Error messages
• Bibliography