Broad plumes rooted at the base of the Earth's mantle beneath major hotspots

SW French, B Romanowicz - Nature, 2015‏ - nature.com
Plumes of hot upwelling rock rooted in the deep mantle have been proposed as a possible
origin of hotspot volcanoes, but this idea is the subject of vigorous debate,. On the basis of …

Seismic structure of the upper mantle beneath eastern Asia from full waveform seismic tomography

K Tao, SP Grand, F Niu - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
To better understand the subsurface behavior of subducting slabs and their relation to the
tectonic evolution of the overriding plate, we conduct a full waveform inversion on a large …

Whole-mantle radially anisotropic shear velocity structure from spectral-element waveform tomography

SW French, BA Romanowicz - Geophysical Journal International, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
The radially anisotropic shear velocity structure of the Earth's mantle provides a critical
window on the interior dynamics of the planet, with isotropic variations that are interpreted in …

Solar neutrino measurements in Super-Kamiokande-IV

K Abe, Y Haga, Y Hayato, M Ikeda, K Iyogi, J Kameda… - Physical Review D, 2016‏ - APS
Upgraded electronics, improved water system dynamics, better calibration and analysis
techniques allowed Super-Kamiokande-IV to clearly observe very low-energy B 8 solar …

How ocean waves rock the Earth: Two mechanisms explain microseisms with periods 3 to 300 s

F Ardhuin, L Gualtieri… - Geophysical Research …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Microseismic activity, recorded everywhere on Earth, is largely due to ocean waves. Recent
progress has clearly identified sources of microseisms in the most energetic band, with …

Anisotropic shear‐wave velocity structure of the Earth's mantle: A global model

B Kustowski, G Ekström… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
We combine a new, large data set of surface wave phase anomalies, long‐period
waveforms, and body wave travel times to construct a three‐dimensional model of the …

Inferring upper-mantle temperatures from seismic velocities

F Cammarano, S Goes, P Vacher, D Giardini - Physics of the Earth and …, 2003‏ - Elsevier
Constraints on mantle temperatures are fundamental for a better understanding of the
dynamics of the Earth. We evaluate how well upper-mantle thermal structure can be inferred …

Shallow mantle temperatures under Europe from P and S wave tomography

S Goes, R Govers, P Vacher - Journal of Geophysical …, 2000‏ - Wiley Online Library
Temperature is one of the key parameters controlling lithospheric and mantle dynamics and
rheology. Using recent experimental data on elastic parameters and anelasticity, we obtain …

Multiscale full waveform inversion

A Fichtner, J Trampert, P Cupillard… - Geophysical Journal …, 2013‏ - academic.oup.com
We develop and apply a full waveform inversion method that incorporates seismic data on a
wide range of spatio-temporal scales, thereby constraining the details of both crustal and …

A three-dimensional radially anisotropic model of shear velocity in the whole mantle

M Panning, B Romanowicz - Geophysical Journal International, 2006‏ - academic.oup.com
We present a 3-D radially anisotropic S velocity model of the whole mantle (SAW642AN),
obtained using a large three component surface and body waveform data set and an …