Telewavesim
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Telewavesim, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Telewavesim's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free open-source software (MIT License) | Free | No paid plans or usage limits stated |
The facts
Each one read from Telewavesim's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- The project describes the software as useful for teleseismic receiver-based studies.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Delivery mode
- desktopchecked 24 Sep 2026
- Dependencies
- The installation instructions use Conda, Python, a Fortran compiler, and ObsPy, and recommend a separate Conda environment.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Examples
- The package includes Jupyter notebooks that demonstrate its routines and workflows.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Implementation
- The package combines Fortran code with Python modules and wrappers.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Material library
- The code supports general anisotropy but currently includes a limited number of mineral and rock elastic tensors.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Model setup
- Users can define layered models in a text file or create them in Python with the Model class.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Ocean-bottom seismology
- It models reverberations from an overlying water column to simulate ocean-bottom seismic station recordings.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Telewavesim models teleseismic body-wave propagation through stacks of generally anisotropic, strictly horizontal layers.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Research uses
- The documentation identifies receiver functions, long-period P-wave polarization, shear-wave splitting, and stochastic inverse methods as potential uses.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security and warranty
- The MIT license provides the software “as is” without warranty; the pages opened state no security certification or compliance information.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The documentation directs users to submit an issue on GitHub if they encounter installation problems.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Version limitation
- The documentation says version 0.3.0 has limited testing and LAPACK linking may fail on some systems.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
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