The future of Earth imaging

VC Tsai - Seismological Research Letters, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Imaging of Earth's interior has led to a large number of successful discoveries of plausible
structures and associated geophysical processes. However, due to the limitations of …

Towards the geological parametrization of seismic tomography

VC Tsai, C Huber, CA Dalton - Geophysical Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Seismic tomography is a cornerstone of geophysics and has led to a number of important
discoveries about the interior of the Earth. However, seismic tomography remains plagued …

Implications of tree expansion in shrubland ecosystems for two generalist avian predators

AC Young, TE Katzner, DJ Shinneman, TN Johnson - Plos One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Shrublands globally have undergone structural changes due to plant invasions, including
the expansion of native trees. Removal of native conifer trees, especially juniper (Juniperus …

Probabilistic lowermost mantle P-wave tomography from hierarchical Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and model parametrization cross-validation

JB Muir, H Tkalčić - Geophysical Journal International, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Bayesian methods, powered by Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimates of posterior densities,
have become a cornerstone of geophysical inverse theory. These methods have special …

The relationship between cross correlations and Green's functions in ambient noise interferometry with Bayesian constraints

VC Tsai, K Sager - Geophysical Journal International, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Cross correlation of ambient seismic noise has begun to provide detailed images of the
Earth that are not possible to attain using earthquake-based or active-source imaging …

Planetary core radii: from Plato towards PLATO

M Knapmeyer, M Walterová - Advances in Geophysics, 2022 - Elsevier
The boundary between rocky mantle and iron core constitutes the most significant
discontinuity within the terrestrial planets, the core itself is one of the largest, if not the …

Long‐Wavelength Topography and Multiscale Velocity Heterogeneity at the Core‐Mantle Boundary

JB Muir, S Tanaka, H Tkalčić - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The structure of the lowermost mantle and the core‐mantle boundary (CMB) has profound
implications for Earth's evolution and current‐day dynamics. Whilst tomographic studies of …

Preface to the focus section on historical seismograms

AL Bent, DI Doser, LJ Hwang - Seismological …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Seismology is now in an era where high‐quality digital recordings are abundant and easily
accessed. The digital era, however, encompasses only a small fraction of recorded seismic …

シャドーゾーンを図解法と三角関数で理解する

加藤護 - 地震第2 輯, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
本報告では簡略化した地球速度構造モデルと三角関数を用いた図解法を用いて地球中心核が
地震波の伝搬に与える影響を整理する. 本稿で扱う手法は遠地地震の波形記録を用いて核の存在 …