Publications: Victor C Tsai

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  • Affiliation: Associate Professor of Geophysics, Brown University
  • Google Scholar ID: rTJNEH0AAAAJ
  • Total Publications: 104

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The Yellowstone magmatic system from the mantle plume to the upper crust
Science 348 (6236), 773-776, 2015
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2015 261 92.4%
Earthquake in a maze: Compressional rupture branching during the 2012 Mw 8.6 Sumatra earthquake
Science 337 (6095), 724-726, 2012
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2012 273 90.9%
On establishing the accuracy of noise tomography travel-time measurements in a realistic medium
Geophysical Journal International 178 (3), 1555-1564, 2009
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2009 225 86.9%
Ice‐front variation and tidewater behavior on Helheim and Kangerdlugssuaq Glaciers, Greenland
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 113 (F1), 2008
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2008 226 86.6%
Seasonality and increasing frequency of Greenland glacial earthquakes
Science 311 (5768), 1756-1758, 2006
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2006 235 86.2%
Marine ice sheet profiles and stability under Coulomb basal conditions
Journal of Glaciology 61, 205-215, 2015
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2015 155 86.1%
A physical model for seismic noise generation by turbulent flow in rivers
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 119 (10), 2209-2238, 2014
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2014 145 84.2%
A physical model for seismic noise generation from sediment transport in rivers
Geophysical Research Letters 39 (2), 2012
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2012 164 84.1%
Multiple CMT source analysis of the 2004 Sumatra earthquake
Geophysical Research Letters 32 (17), 2005
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2005 210 83.9%
Extracting seismic core phases with array interferometry
Geophysical Research Letters 40 (6), 1049-1053, 2013
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2013 149 83.5%
A model for turbulent hydraulic fracture and application to crack propagation at glacier beds
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 115 (F3), 2010
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2010 176 83.0%
Understanding the amplitudes of noise correlation measurements
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 116 (B9), 2011
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2011 150 81.6%
Joint inversion of Rayleigh wave phase velocity and ellipticity using USArray: Constraining velocity and density structure in the upper crust
Geophysical Research Letters 39 (12), 2012
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2012 139 81.1%
Spurious velocity changes caused by temporal variations in ambient noise frequency content
Geophysical Journal International 194 (3), 1574-1581, 2013
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2013 130 81.1%
3-D crustal structure of the western United States: application of Rayleigh-wave ellipticity extracted from noise cross-correlations
Geophysical Journal International 198 (2), 656-670, 2014
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2014 121 81.0%
A model for seasonal changes in GPS positions and seismic wave speeds due to thermoelastic and hydrologic variations
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 116 (B4), 2011
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2011 144 80.9%
The 2012 Sumatra great earthquake sequence
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 351, 247-257, 2012
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2012 135 80.6%
The Seismic Signature of Debris Flows: Flow Mechanics and Early Warning at Montecito, California
Geophysical Research Letters 45, 5528-5535, 2018
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2018 80 79.2%
Multiple fluvial processes detected by riverside seismic and infrasound monitoring of a controlled flood in the Grand Canyon
Geophysical Research Letters 40 (18), 4858-4863, 2013
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2013 117 79.1%
Rupture complexity of the 1994 Bolivia and 2013 Sea of Okhotsk deep earthquakes
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 385, 89-96, 2014
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2014 108 78.7%
Subseasonal changes observed in subglacial channel pressure, size, and sediment transport
Geophysical Research Letters 43 (8), 3786-3794, 2016
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2016 89 77.6%
An explicit relationship between time-domain noise correlation and spatial autocorrelation (SPAC) results
Geophysical Journal International 182 (1), 454-460, 2010
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2010 129 77.4%
Earthquake ground motion amplification for surface waves
Geophysical Research Letters 44, 121-127, 2017
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2017 78 76.5%
Using centroid time-delays to characterize source durations and identify earthquakes with unique characteristics
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 374, 92-100, 2013
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2013 98 75.4%
A physical model of the high‐frequency seismic signal generated by debris flows
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 44 (13), 2529-2543, 2019
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2019 55 75.2%
Perturbational and nonperturbational inversion of Rayleigh-wave velocities
Geophysics 82 (3), F15-F28, 2017
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2017 66 72.7%
Estimating the effect of Earth elasticity and variable water density on tsunami speeds
Geophysical Research Letters 40 (3), 492-496, 2013
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2013 85 72.1%
Modeling of subglacial hydrological development following rapid supraglacial lake drainage
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 120 (6), 1127-1147, 2015
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2015 74 71.5%
Theoretical constraints on true polar wander
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 112 (B5), 2007
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2007 97 70.3%
Analysis of glacial earthquakes
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 112 (F3), 2007
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2007 96 70.1%
Particle transport mechanics and induced seismic noise in steep flume experiments with accelerometer‐embedded tracers
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2018
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2018 52 69.6%
Expected seismicity and the seismic noise environment of Europa
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 123 (1), 163-179, 2018
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2018 51 69.1%
Site amplification, attenuation, and scattering from noise correlation amplitudes across a dense array in Long Beach, CA
Geophysical Research Letters 42 (5), 1360-1367, 2015
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2015 67 69.1%
Possible mechanisms for glacial earthquakes
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 113 (F3), 2008
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2008 86 68.0%
Evaluating global temperature calibrations for lacustrine branched GDGTs: Seasonal variability, paleoclimate implications, and future directions
Quaternary Science Reviews 310, 108124, 2023
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2023 9 67.9%
Seismic interferometry with antipodal station pairs
Geophysical Research Letters 40 (17), 4609-4613, 2013
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2013 69 67.2%
Measuring Basal Force Fluctuations of Debris Flows Using Seismic Recordings and Empirical Green's Functions
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 125 (9), e2020JF005590, 2020
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2020 33 67.0%
The local amplification of surface waves: A new observable to constrain elastic velocities, density, and anelastic attenuation
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 117 (B6), 2012
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2012 69 65.7%
A unified model for transient subglacial water pressure and basal sliding
Journal of Glaciology 68 (268), 390-400, 2022
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2022 14 64.9%
Theoretical foundations of noise interferometry
Seismic Ambient Noise, 2019
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2019 34 62.9%
Ambient noise correlation on the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica
Geophysical Journal International 196 (3), 1796-1802, 2014
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2014 56 62.8%
The relationship between noise correlation and the Green's function in the presence of degeneracy and the absence of equipartition
Geophysical Journal International 182 (3), 1509-1514, 2010
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2010 64 62.1%
Nonperturbational surface-wave inversion: A Dix-type relation for surface waves
Geophysics 80 (6), EN167-EN177, 2015
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2015 51 62.0%
Vital Signs: Seismology of Icy Ocean Worlds
Astrobiology 18 (1), 37-53, 2018
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2018 38 61.5%
Elastic Impact Consequences for High‐Frequency Earthquake Ground Motion
Geophysical Research Letters 47, e2019GL086302, 2020
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2020 27 61.5%
Seismic array constraints on reach-scale bedload transport
Geology 45 (4), 299-302, 2017
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2017 41 60.5%
Anomalously steep dips of earthquakes in the 2011 Tohoku-Oki source region and possible explanations
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 353, 121-133, 2012
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2012 53 59.0%
Cooling magma model for deep volcanic long‐period earthquakes
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 119 (11), 8442-8456, 2014
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2014 48 58.8%
Tidal modulation of ice shelf buttressing stresses
Annals of Glaciology, 1-9, 2017
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2017 37 57.8%
Amplification and Attenuation across USArray using Ambient Noise Wavefront Tracking
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 122 (12), 10086-10101, 2017
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2017 36 57.1%
Fault Interactions Enhance High‐Frequency Earthquake Radiation
Geophysical Research Letters 48 (20), e2021GL095271, 2021
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2021 17 57.0%
Modelling P waves in seismic noise correlations: advancing fault monitoring using train traffic sources
Geophysical Journal International 228 (3), 1556-1567, 2022
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2022 10 54.9%
High‐resolution probing of inner core structure with seismic interferometry
Geophysical Research Letters 42 (24), 10,622-10,630, 2015
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2015 37 53.5%
Modeling the elastic transmission of tidal stresses to great distances inland in channelized ice streams
The Cryosphere 8 (6), 2007-2029, 2014
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2014 39 53.4%
A 3D Broadband Seismometer Array Experiment at the Homestake Mine
Seismological Research Letters 89 (6), 2420-2429, 2018
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2018 27 52.2%
Seismologically determined bedload flux during the typhoon season
Scientific reports 5, 8261, 2015
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2015 35 52.1%
Geometric and level set tomography using ensemble Kalman inversion
Geophysical Journal International 220 (2), 967-980, 2020
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2020 19 51.6%
Evidence for non-self-similarity of microearthquakes recorded at a Taiwan borehole seismometer array
Geophysical Journal International 206 (2), 757-773, 2016
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2016 32 51.6%
An improved model for tidally modulated grounding-line migration
Journal of Glaciology 61 (226), 216-222, 2015
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2015 34 51.3%
Impact Versus Frictional Earthquake Models for High‐Frequency Radiation in Complex Fault Zones
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 126 (8), e2021JB022313, 2021
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2021 14 51.1%
Quantifying the influence of sea ice on ocean microseism using observations from the Bering Sea, Alaska
Geophysical Research Letters 38 (22), 2011
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2011 38 50.4%
Offshore Southern California lithospheric velocity structure from noise cross‐correlation functions
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 121 (5), 3415-3427, 2016
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2016 30 49.9%
Modeling turbulent hydraulic fracture near a free surface
Journal of Applied Mechanics 79 (3), 031003, 2012
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2012 35 49.0%
Explaining extreme ground motion in Osaka basin during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake
Geophysical Research Letters 44, 7239-7244, 2017
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2017 25 47.5%
Predicting short-period, wind-wave-generated seismic noise in coastal regions
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 426, 280-292, 2015
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2015 29 47.3%
Frequency‐Dependent P Wave Polarization and Its Subwavelength Near‐Surface Depth Sensitivity
Geophysical Research Letters 46 (24), 14377-14384, 2019
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2019 19 46.8%
Coherence‐Based Approaches for Estimating the Composition of the Seismic Wavefield
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 124 (3), 2941-2956, 2019
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2019 19 46.8%
Extension of the Basin Rayleigh‐Wave Amplification Theory to Include Basin‐Edge Effects
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 110 (3), 1305-1322, 2020
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2020 16 46.7%
Constraints on the long‐period moment‐dip tradeoff for the Tohoku earthquake
Geophysical Research Letters 38 (7), 2011
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2011 32 46.7%
Earthquake Source Complexity Controls the Frequency Dependence of Near‐Source Radiation Patterns
Geophysical Research Letters 48 (17), e2021GL095022, 2021
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2021 12 46.4%
Seismic response of Nenana sedimentary basin, central Alaska
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 113 (2), 762-781, 2023
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2023 4 43.7%
Rayleigh‐Wave H/V via Noise Cross Correlation in Southern California
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 107 (5), 2021-2027, 2017
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2017 20 41.9%
Locating a scatterer in the active volcanic area of Southern Peru from ambient noise cross-correlation
Geophysical Journal International 192 (3), 1332-1341, 2013
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2013 22 39.6%
Green’s Functions for Surface Waves in a Generic Velocity Structure
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 104 (5), 2573-2578, 2014
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2014 20 38.0%
Are secular correlations between sunspots, geomagnetic activity, and global temperature significant?
Geophysical Research Letters 38 (21), 2011
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2011 20 37.3%
Direct Observations of Surface‐Wave Eigenfunctions at the Homestake 3D Array
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 109 (4), 1194-1202, 2019
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2019 13 37.2%
Perturbational and nonperturbational inversion of Love-wave velocities
Geophysics 85 (1), F19-F26, 2020
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2020 11 36.7%
The morning glory wave of southern California
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 109 (B2), 2004
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2004 17 35.4%
Evidence for Fluid Migration During the 2016 Meinong, Taiwan, Aftershock Sequence
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 125 (9), e2020JB019994, 2020
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2020 10 34.4%
Seismic mapping of subglacial hydrology reveals previously undetected pressurization event
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 127 (3), e2021JF006406, 2022
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2022 5 34.2%
Toward automated directivity estimates in earthquake moment tensor inversion
Geophysical Journal International 211 (2), 1084-1098, 2017
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2017 13 32.4%
Did Oldham Discover the Core After All? Handling Imprecise Historical Data with Hierarchical Bayesian Model Selection Methods
Seismological Research Letters 91, 1377-1383, 2020
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2020 9 31.9%
A Physical Model for Volcanic Eruption Tremor
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 125 (10), e2019JB018980, 2020
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2020 9 31.9%
Seismologically observed spatiotemporal drainage activity at moulins
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 122 (11), 9095-9108, 2017
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2017 12 30.8%
Bulk structure of the crust and upper mantle beneath Alaska from an approximate Rayleigh‐wave dispersion formula
Seismological Society of America 91 (6), 3064-3075, 2020
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2020 8 29.3%
Shear localization in fluid-saturated fault gouge by instability of spatially uniform, adiabatic, undrained shear
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2005, T13E-05, 2005
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2005 11 29.3%
A nonlinear model for resolving the temperature bias of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (brGDGT) temperature proxies
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 327, 158-169, 2022
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2022 4 27.9%
Was the Mw 7.5 1952 Kern County, California, earthquake induced (or triggered)?
Journal of Seismology 21, 1613-1621, 2017
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2017 10 27.5%
Star patterns on lake ice
Physical Review E 75 (6), 066105, 2007
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2007 10 26.9%
A model for subglacial flooding through a preexisting hydrological network during the rapid drainage of supraglacial lakes
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 120 (3), 580-603, 2015
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2015 9 24.3%
The relationship between cross correlations and Green’s functions in ambient noise interferometry with Bayesian constraints
Geophysical Journal International 228 (2), 816-825, 2022
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2022 3 20.7%
Parsimonious velocity inversion applied to the Los Angeles Basin, CA
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 127 (2), e2021JB023103, 2022
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2022 3 20.7%
Observations and modeling of long‐period ground‐motion amplification across northeast China
Geophysical Research Letters 45, 5968-5976, 2018
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2018 6 20.4%
A simple physics-based improvement to the positive degree day model
Journal of Glaciology 64 (246), 661-668, 2018
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2018 6 20.4%
Time Scale for Rapid Draining of a Surficial Lake into the Greenland Ice Sheet
Journal of Applied Mechanics, 2015
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2015 6 18.7%
A linear inversion approach to measuring the composition and directionality of the seismic noise field
Remote Sensing 13 (16), 3097, 2021
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2021 3 14.2%
Time-Dependent Stresses From Fluid Extraction and Diffusion With Applications to Induced Seismicity
Journal of Applied Mechanics 87 (8), 081002, 2020
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2020 3 12.4%
Validation of a fast semi-analytic method for surface-wave propagation in layered media
Geophysical Journal International 219 (2), 1405-1420, 2019
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2019 3 12.2%
Averaging and sampling for magnetic-observatory hourly data
Annales geophysicae 28 (11), 2079-2096, 2010
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2010 3 11.3%
One-station seismology without traditional seismic sources
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2010, U41A-05, 2010
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2010 3 11.3%
Introduction to the Special Issue on Mars Seismology
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 111 (6), 2883-2888, 2021
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2021 2 8.2%
The use of simple physical models in seismology and glaciology
Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009
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2009 1 0.0%
A simple model for deglacial meltwater pulses
Geophysical Research Letters 45 (21), 11,742-11,750, 2018
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2018 1 0.0%
Towards the geological parametrization of seismic tomography
Geophysical Journal International 234 (2), 1447-1462, 2023
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2023 1 0.0%