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Véronique Farra is a researcher affiliated with the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France. Their work primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in the fields of Geophysics and Engineering. Farra's research spans several subfields, including Geophysics, Ocean Engineering, and Applied Mathematics.

Their main topics of interest cover seismic imaging and inversion techniques, seismic waves and analysis, drilling and well engineering, geophysical methods and applications, earthquake and tectonic studies, and aspects of gas dynamics and kinetic theory.

Farra has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Geophysics
  • Journal of Applied Geophysics
  • Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Farra include:

  • Weak-anisotropy approximation of P-wave geometric spreading in horizontally layered anisotropic media of arbitrary symmetry: Tilted transversely isotropic specification (2021, Geophysics)
  • Parameterization of anisotropic media by A-parameters (2024, Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica)
  • Weak-anisotropy approximation of P-wave reflection coefficient in anisotropic media of arbitrary symmetry and tilt (2022, Geophysics)
  • Theoretical Modeling of Secondary Microseisms Considering Source and Receiver Site Structures, With a Focus on Ocean-Bottom Sediment Effects (2025, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth)
  • PS reflection moveout in a homogeneous anisotropic layer of arbitrary symmetry and tilt (2023, Journal of Applied Geophysics)

Farra collaborates frequently with a number of other researchers, including Ivan Pšenčı́k, Zongbo Xu, É. Stutzmann, and Wayne C. Crawford. Ivan Pšenčı́k is a particularly frequent co-author, having contributed to six joint publications.

Best Publications

  • AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY IN THE EARTH FROM OBSERVATIONS OF SKS AT GEOSCOPE AND NARS BROADBAND STATIONS

    Lev P. Vinnik;Veronique Farra;Barbara Romanowicz

  • Upper mantle stratification by P and S receiver functions

    Véronique Farra;Lev Vinnik

  • Teleseismic imaging of subducting lithosphere and Moho offsets beneath western Tibet

    Gérard Wittlinger;Jérome Vergne;Paul Tapponnier;Véronique Farra

  • Seismic waveform modeling in heterogeneous media by ray perturbation theory

    Veronique Farra;Raul Madariaga

  • Non-Linear Reflection Tomography

    V. Farra;R. Madariaga

  • Ray tracing in 3-D complex isotropic media: An analysis of the problem

    Jean Virieux;Veronique Farra

  • Complex lithospheric structure under the central Baltic Shield from surface wave tomography

    Marianne Bruneton;Helle A. Pedersen;Véronique Farra;Nicholas T. Arndt

  • Low S velocity atop the 410-km discontinuity and mantle plumes

    L. Vinnik;V. Farra

  • Velocity shift in heterogeneous media with anisotropic spatial correlation

    Nicole Girardin;Véronique Farra

  • Seismic velocities in Southern Tibet lower crust: a receiver function approach for eclogite detection

    Gérard Wittlinger;Véronique Farra;György Hetényi;Jérôme Vergne

  • The 2015 Gorkha earthquake: A large event illuminating the Main Himalayan Thrust fault

    Zacharie Duputel;Jérôme Vergne;Luis Rivera;Gérard Wittlinger

  • High-resolution surface wave tomography beneath the Aegean-Anatolia region: constraints on upper-mantle structure

    Gwénaëlle Salaün;Helle A. Pedersen;Anne Paul;Véronique Farra

  • Converted waves reveal a thick and layered tectosphere beneath the Kalahari super-craton

    Gérard Wittlinger;Véronique Farra

  • Subcratonic low-velocity layer and flood basalts

    Lev Vinnik;Veronique Farra

  • Modelling the ocean site effect on seismic noise body waves

    L Gualtieri;L Gualtieri;Éléonore Stutzmann;Véronique Farra;Yann Capdeville

  • Inversion of teleseismic S particle motion for azimuthal anisotropy in the upper mantle: a feasibility study

    V. Farra;L. P. Vinnik;B. Romanowicz;G. L. Kosarev

  • Sensitivity of qP-wave traveltimes and polarization vectors to heterogeneity, anisotropy and interfaces

    Véronique Farra;Soazig Le Bégat

  • Observational evidence for diffracted SV in the shadow of the Earth's core

    Lev P. Vinnik;Veronique Farra;Barbara Romanowicz

  • First-order ray tracing for qP waves in inhomogeneous, weakly anisotropic media

    Ivan Pšenčík;Véronique Farra

  • Layered lithospheric mantle in the central Baltic Shield from surface waves and xenolith analysis

    Marianne Bruneton;Helle A. Pedersen;Pierre Vacher;Ilmo T. Kukkonen

Frequent Co-Authors

Eléonore Stutzmann
Eléonore Stutzmann Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Lev Vinnik
Lev Vinnik Russian Academy of Sciences
Anne Mangeney
Anne Mangeney Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Jean Virieux
Jean Virieux Grenoble Alpes University
Fabrice Ardhuin
Fabrice Ardhuin French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Raul Madariaga
Raul Madariaga École Normale Supérieure
Andrea Morelli
Andrea Morelli National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Martin Schimmel
Martin Schimmel Spanish National Research Council
Hayrullah Karabulut
Hayrullah Karabulut Boğaziçi University
György Hetényi
György Hetényi University of Lausanne

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