Predicting infectious severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 from diagnostic samples

J Bullard, K Dust, D Funk, JE Strong… - Clinical infectious …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has become the
primary method to diagnose viral diseases, including severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Remnants and fragments of the subducted paleo-Pacific plate: Constraints from geochemistry and geophysics

X Xu, Z Huang, D Jiang, G Zeng, LQ Dai - Science China Earth Sciences, 2024 - Springer
The subduction and rollback of the paleo-Pacific plate during Mesozoic time was the key
engine for the evolution of the continental margin in eastern China. It led to lateral accretion …

A 3‐D spectral‐element and frequency‐wave number hybrid method for high‐resolution seismic array imaging

P Tong, D Komatitsch, TL Tseng… - Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We present a three‐dimensional (3‐D) hybrid method that interfaces the spectral‐element
method (SEM) with the frequency‐wave number (FK) technique to model the propagation of …

Major disruption of D ″beneath Alaska

D Sun, D Helmberger, MS Miller… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
D ″represents one of the most dramatic thermal and compositional layers within our planet.
In particular, global tomographic models display relatively fast patches at the base of the …

Oceanic crust in the mid-mantle beneath west-central Pacific subduction zones: evidence from S to P converted waveforms

Z Yang, X He - Geophysical Journal International, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The fate of subducted slabs is enigmatic, yet intriguing. We analyse seismic arrivals at∼ 20–
50 s after the direct P wave in an array in northeast China (NECESSArray) recordings of four …

Time‐evolving seismic tomography: The method and its application to the 1989 Loma Prieta and 2014 South Napa earthquake area, California

P Tong, D Yang, D Li, Q Liu - Geophysical Research Letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a time‐evolving approach to conduct traveltime seismic tomography in the 1989
Mw 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake and 2014 Mw 6.0 South Napa earthquake area, California …

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 …

Seismic array constraints on the D″ discontinuity beneath Central America

S Whittaker, MS Thorne, NC Schmerr… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We analyzed 16,150 transverse component seismic recordings from 54 deep‐focus
earthquakes in the South American and Caribbean regions recorded at broadband stations …

Sensitivities of diffracted PKKPab waves to the velocity structures in the lowermost mantle

Y Chen, S Ni, B Zhang, L Zhao, X Song… - Geophysical Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Diffractions of PKKPab () along the core mantle boundary (CMB) have been observed well
beyond its cutoff distance in recent studies, making it useful for improving the spatial …

Seismic evidence for the depression of the D ″discontinuity beneath the Caribbean: Implication for slab heating from the Earth's core

JYT Ko, SH Hung, BY Kuo, L Zhao - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
The lowermost 100–300 km of the Earth's mantle commonly regarded as the thermal
boundary layer (TBL) of mantle circulation is characterized by its complex physical …