摘要
Computational geophysics is vitally important for improving our understanding ofthe Earth and Earth processes;however solutions to most problems in computationalgeophysics have been unapproachable due to limited computing capacity. With increasingcomputer speed, memory, storage capacity, and input/output capability, solvingthese problems is becoming feasible. Computational geophysics can include not onlyforward modeling to predict what will happen in a given situation but inverse modelingor inversion, in which data are interpreted in terms of a model. Such inversion canbe even more computationally intensive than forward modeling as it can require severaliterations of forward modeling. This Special Issue contains 13 papers and encompassesseveral different and important computational geophysical problems, includingseismic-wave modeling using different methods, electromagnetic modeling/inversion,and tsunami simulation.
