Effects due to lateral variations in compressional-wave speed, shear-wave speed, density, a 3D crustal model, ellipticity, topography and bathymetry, the oceans, rotation, and self-gravitation are all included.

The 5.0.0 "Tiger" release offers a significant improvement in performance and a more accurate implementation of the crust. The latest version provides a perfectly load-balanced mesh for 3D mantle models honoring shallow oceanic Moho (depths less than 15 km) and deep continental Moho (depths greater than 35 km). It also accommodates European crustal model EuCrust07 (Tesauro et al., 2008), which may be combined with global crustal model Crust2.0.

Additional new model routines are provided for generic point-profile models (PPM) and Gauss-Lobatto-Legendre based models (GLL). The structure of the software has been simplified to facilitate easier implementation of new 3D models. The code accommodates general moment tensor files, and provides more complete information in the SAC headers, as explained in detail in the updated user manual. New matrix-matrix multiplication routines, adapted from the book of Deville et al. (2002), help reduce the total number of memory accesses performed in each spectral element and thus significantly improve performance.

Latest Release

SPECFEM3D_GLOBE_V5.0.0.tar.gz [2010-03-05]

Version 5.0.0 - Latest release

Development Version

If you are interested in following the main line of development, use the following Subversion command:

svn checkout http://geodynamics.org/svn/cig/seismo/3D/SPECFEM3D_GLOBE/trunk SPECFEM3D_GLOBE

Documentation

SPECFEM3D GLOBE User Manual (PDF) [2010-03-05]

SPECFEM3D_GLOBE Users Map

Shows location of users who downloaded SPECFEM3D_GLOBE since the code was released (image updated daily).

Help

To identify known issues, report bugs, request help, or provide feedback or suggestions:

• Browse and/or submit new issues at our RoundUp Bug Tracker.
• Browse the CIG Computational Seismology Mailing List Archive.
• E-mail the CIG Computational Seismology Mailing List with details of your problem or suggestion.