Paper reading

2020 Spring

Joint inversion of surface-wave dispersion and receiver function

  • Jiayuan Yao on 2020/04/17
  • Shen, W., Ritzwoller, M. H., Schulte-Pelkum, V., & Lin, F. C. (2013). Joint inversion of surface wave dispersion and receiver  functions: a Bayesian Monte-Carlo approach. GJl, 192(2), 807-836. PDF
  • Bodin, T., Sambridge, M., Tkalčić, H., Arroucau, P., Gallagher, K., & Rawlinson, N. (2012). Transdimensional inversion of receiver functions and surface wave dispersion. JGR: Solid Earth, 117(B2). PDF
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Insight of Coso-Ridgcrest area by tomography method

  • Dongdong Wang on 2020/04/24
  • Yang, Y., Ritzwoller, M. H., & Jones, C. H. (2011). Crustal structure determined from ambient noise tomography near the magmatic centers of the Coso region, southeastern California. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems12(2). PDF
  • Zhang Q, Lin G. Three‐dimensional Vp and Vp/Vs models in the Coso geothermal area, California: Seismic characterization of the magmatic system[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2014, 119(6): 4907-4922. PDF
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Imaging the underground discontinuity using P-wave reflectivity

  • Tianjue Li on 2020/05/01
  • Delph, J. R., Levander, A., & Niu, F. (2019). Constraining crustal properties using receiver functions and the autocorrelation of earthquake‐generated body waves. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth124(8), 8981-8997. PDF
  • Ruigrok, E., & Wapenaar, K. (2012). Global‐phase seismic interferometry unveils P‐wave reflectivity below the Himalayas and Tibet. Geophysical Research Letters39(11).PDF
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Parallel computing in solving eikonal equations

  • Yingyu Qi on 2020/05/08
  • Jeong, W. K., & Whitaker, R. T. (2008). A fast iterative method for eikonal equations. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing30(5), 2512-2534. PDF
  • Rouy, E., & Tourin, A. (1992). A viscosity solutions approach to shape-from-shading. SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis29(3), 867-884.PDF
  • Kim, S. (2001). An \calO(N) level set method for eikonal equations. SIAM journal on scientific computing22(6), 2178-2193.PDF
  • Capozzoli, A., Curcio, C., Liseno, A., & Savarese, S. (2013, November). A comparison of fast marching, fast sweeping and fast iterative methods for the solution of the eikonal equation. In 2013 21st Telecommunications Forum Telfor (TELFOR) (pp. 685-688). IEEE.PDF
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Retrieval of Amplitude and Attenuation from Ambient Seismic Noise

  • Shucheng Wu on 2020/05/15
  • Zhou, L., Song, X., & Weaver, R. L. (2020). Retrieval of amplitude and attenuation from ambient seismic noise: synthetic data and practical considerations. Geophysical Journal International. PDF
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Coding style and introduction to data structure using Python&C++

  • Yongsheng Liu on 2020/05/22
  • PPT

An adjoint state method for 3D transmission traveltime tomography

  • Ping Tong on 2020/06/04
  • Leung, S., & Qian, J. (2006). An adjoint state method for three-dimensional transmission traveltime tomography using first-arrivals. Communications in Mathematical Sciences4(1), 249-266. PDF
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Layered anisotropy in the NE Tibet and its tectonic deformation

  • Shijie Hao on 2020/06/11
  • Liang, S., Gan, W., Shen, C., Xiao, G., Liu, J., Chen, W., … & Zhou, D. (2013). Three‐dimensional velocity field of present‐day crustal motion of the Tibetan Plateau derived from GPS measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth118(10), 5722-5732. PDF

Seismic instrument problems

  • Jiayuan Yao on 2020/06/25
  • Clock error
    •  Zhu, G., Yang, H., Lin, J., Zhou, Z., Xu, M., Sun, J., & Wan, K. (2019). Along-strike variation in slab geometry at the southern Mariana subduction zone revealed by seismicity through ocean bottom seismic experiments. Geophysical Journal International218(3), 2122-2135. PDF
  • Seismometer misorientation
    • Stachnik, J. C., Sheehan, A. F., Zietlow, D. W., Yang, Z., Collins, J., & Ferris, A. (2012). Determination of New Zealand ocean bottom seismometer orientation via Rayleigh-wave polarization. Seismological Research Letters83(4), 704-713. PDF
    • Wang, X., Chen, Q. F., Li, J., & Wei, S. (2016). Seismic sensor misorientation measurement using P‐wave particle motion: An application to the NECsaids Array. Seismological Research Letters87(4), 901-911. PDF
    • Zheng, H., Fan, J., Zhao, D., Li, C., Dong, D., Zhang, G., & Wang, X. (2020). A new method to estimate ocean-bottom-seismometer orientation using teleseismic receiver functions. Geophysical Journal International221(2), 893-904. PDF
  • Instrument gain problem
    • Park, S., & Ishii, M. (2019). Detection of instrument gain problems based on body‐wave polarization: Application to the Hi‐net array. Seismological Research Letters90(2A), 692-698. PDF
  • Waveform clipping
    • Yang, W., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2010). An algorithm for detecting clipped waveforms and suggested correction procedures. Seismological Research Letters81(1), 53-62. PDF
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Workflow of Tomography Using the Direct and/or Reflected Phases

  • Dongdong Wang on 2020/07/02
  • Huang, X., Yang, D., Tong, P., Badal, J., & Liu, Q. (2016). Wave equation‐based reflection tomography of the 1992 Landers earthquake area. Geophysical Research Letters43(5), 1884-1892. PDF
  • Tong, P., Yang, D., & Huang, X. (2019). Multiple-grid model parametrization for seismic tomography with application to the San Jacinto fault zone. Geophysical Journal International218(1), 200-223. PDF
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Constraints of Moho geometry beneath volcanoes by receiver function method

  • Tianjue Li on 2020/07/09
  • Hammond, J. O., Kendall, J. M., Stuart, G. W., Keir, D., Ebinger, C., Ayele, A., & Belachew, M. (2011). The nature of the crust beneath the Afar triple junction: Evidence from receiver functions. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems12(12). PDF
  • Yuan, H., Dueker, K., & Stachnik, J. (2010). Crustal structure and thickness along the Yellowstone hot spot track: Evidence for lower crustal outflow from beneath the eastern Snake River Plain. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems11(3). PDF
  • McFarlin, H., Christensen, D., McNutt, S. R., Ward, K. M., Ryan, J., Zandt, G., & Thompson, G. (2018). Receiver function analyses of Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia and vicinity. Geosphere14(1), 50-64. PDF
  • Hammond, J. O., Wu, J. P., Ri, K. S., Wei, W., Yu, J. N., & Oppenheimer, C. (2020). Distribution of partial melt beneath Changbaishan/Paektu volcano, China/Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems21(1), e2019GC008461. PDF
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Introduction to earthquake location

  • Yingyu Qi on 2020/07/16
  • Douglas, A. (1967). Joint epicentre determination. Nature215(5096), 47-48.PDF
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The Mid-lithosphere Discontinuities (MLDs): Observations, Origins, and Geodynamic Implications

  • Shucheng Wu on 2020/07/23
  • Selway, K., Ford, H., & Kelemen, P. (2015). The seismic mid-lithosphere discontinuity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters414, 45-57. PDF
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Wave equation-based earthquake relocation

  • Yongsheng Liu on 2020/07/30
  • Tong, P., Yang, D., Liu, Q., Yang, X., & Harris, J. (2016). Acoustic wave-equation-based earthquake location. Geophysical Supplements to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society205(1), 464-478. PDF
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2019 Fall

Extract receiver functions

  • Tianjue Li on 2019/07/12
  • PPT
  • Bostock, M. G. (2015). Theory and Observations-Seismology and the Structure of the Earth: Teleseismic Body-Wave Scattering and Receiver-Side Structure. PDF 

Popular receiver function techniques

  • Tianjue Li on 2019/07/19
  • PPT
  • Cheng, C., Bodin, T., & Allen, R. M. (2016). Three-dimensional pre-stack depth migration of receiver functions with the fast marching method: a Kirchhoff approach. Geophysical Journal International, 205(2), 819-829. PDF
  • Kang, H., & Kim, Y. (2019). Localized Anisotropic Subduction‐Zone Structure in Southern Peru: Constraints from Teleseismic Receiver Functions and Forward Modeling. Seismological Research Letters. PDF

Waveform inversion-Source encoding

  • Yongsheng Liu on 2019/07/26
  • PPT
  • Tromp, J., & Bachmann, E. (2019). Source encoding for adjoint tomography. Geophysical Journal International, 218, 2019-2044. PDF

seismic imaging of shallow structures

  • Jiayuan Yao on 2019/08/14
  • PPT
  • Svenningsen, L., & Jacobsen, B. H. (2007). Absolute S-velocity estimation from receiver functions. Geophysical Journal International, 170(3), 1089-1094. PDF
  • Tanimoto, T., Yano, T., & Hakamata, T. (2013). An approach to improve Rayleigh-wave ellipticity estimates from seismic noise: application to the Los Angeles Basin. Geophysical Journal International, 193(1), 407-420. PDF
  • Schiffer, C., Stephenson, R., Oakey, G. N., & Jacobsen, B. H. (2016). The crustal structure of Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada—teleseismic mapping across a remote intraplate orogenic belt. Geophysical Journal International, 204(3), 1579-1600. PDF

Double-difference adjoint seismic tomography

  • Shaolin Liu on 2019/08/21
  • PPT
  • Yuan, Y. O., Simons, F. J., & Tromp, J. (2016). Double-difference adjoint seismic tomography. Geophysical Journal International, 206, 1599-1618. PDF

Topic on Ambient Noise Tomography (ANT) – Part I

  • Shucheng Wu on 2019/08/28
  • PPT
  • Campillo, M., Paul, A. (2003). Long-range correlations in the diffuse seismic coda. Science, 299, 547-549. PDF
  • Bensen, G. D., Ritzwoller, M. H., Barmin, M. P., et al. (2007). Processing seismic ambient noise data to obtain reliable broad-band surface wave dispersion measurements. Geophysical Journal International, 169, 1239-1260. PDF
  • Groos, J. C., Bussat, S., Ritter, J. R. R. 2012. Performance of different processing schemes in seismic noise cross-correlations. Geophysical Journal International, 188, 498-512. PDF

Seismic first-arrival calculation using fast marching method (FMM)

  • Yingyu Qi on 2019/09/04
  • PPT
  • Lelievre, P. G., Farquharson, C. G., & Hurich, C. A. (2011). Computing first-arrival seismic traveltimes on unstructured 3-D tetrahedral grids using the Fast Marching Method. Geophysical Journal International, 184, 885–896. PDF

Fast Marching Method (FMM) ray tracing

  • Xiachun Lu on 2019/09/11
  • PPT
  • Zhang, F. X., Wu, Q. J., Li, Y. H., et al. 2010. Application of FMM ray tracing to forward and inverse problems of seismology. Progress in Geophysics (in Chinese), 25(4): 1197-1205. PDF

Seismic source relocation based on grid search method

  • Yauwing Chen on 2019/09/18
  • PPT
  • Havskov, J., Bormann, P., Schweitzer, J. 2012. Seismic source location. – In: Bormann, P. (Ed.), New Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice 2 (NMSOP-2), Potsdam: Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, pp. 1-36. PDF

Arrival time picking

  • Dongdong Wang on 2019/09/25
  • PPT
  • Tong, P., Zhao, D. P., Yang, D. H., et al. 2014. Wave-equation-based travel-time seismic tomography – Part 1: Method. Solid Earth, 5: 1151-1168. PDF

Topic on Ambient Noise Tomography (ANT) – Part II

  • Shucheng Wu on 2019/10/02
  • PPT
  • Guo, Z., Tong, P., Chen, Y. J., Ning, J. Y., et al. 2016. Seismic evidence of on-going sublithosphere upper mantle convection for intra-plate volcanism in Northeast China. Earth and Planetary Science Letter, 433: 31-43. PDF

Constrain crustal structure using post-critical reflection

  • Tianjue Li on 2019/10/09
  • PPT
  • Park Jr., E. H.,  Hawman, R. B., Fischer, K. M., et. 2016. Estimating crustal thickness using SsPmp in regions covered by low-velocity sediments: Imaging the Moho beneath the Southeastern Suture of the Appalachian Margin Experiment (SESAME) array, SE Atlantic Coastal Plain. Geophysical Research Letter, 43: 9627-9635. PDF

Global surface wave phase & group velocity dataset

  • Jiayuan Yao on 2019/10/16
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  • Ma, Z., Masters, G., Laske, G., & Pasyanos, M. (2014). A comprehensive dispersion model of surface wave phase and group velocity for the globe. Geophysical Journal International, 199(1), 113-135. PDF
  • Ma, Z., & Masters, G. (2014). A new global Rayleigh‐and Love‐wave group velocity dataset for constraining lithosphere properties. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 104(4), 2007-2026. PDF

Imaging discontinuities using Migration

  • Yongsheng Liu on 2019/11/06
  • PPT
  • Schneider, W. A. (1978). Integral formulation for migration in two and three dimensions. Geophysics43(1), 49-76.
  • Buske, S. (1999). Three-dimensional pre-stack Kirchhoff migration of deep seismic reflection data. Geophysical Journal International137(1), 243-260.
  • Liu, G., Yu, Z., Wang, J., & Li, B. (2019). Accelerating Kirchhoff Pre-stack depth migration on a GPU by overlapping ray tracing and imaging. Computers & Geosciences128, 79-86.
  • Hill, N. R. (2001). Prestack Gaussian-beam depth migration. Geophysics66(4), 1240-1250.
  • Zhang, Y., Duan, L., & Xie, Y. (2014). A stable and practical implementation of least-squares reverse time migration. Geophysics80(1), V23-V31.
  • Zhu, H., Luo, Y., Nissen-Meyer, T., Morency, C., & Tromp, J. (2009). Elastic imaging and time-lapse migration based on adjoint methods. Geophysics74(6), WCA167-WCA177.

Fast marching eikonal solver: spherical versus Cartesian coordinates

  • Yingyu Qi on 2019/11/13
  • Alkhalifah, T., Fomel, S. 2001. Implementing the fast marching eikonal solver: spherical versus Cartesian coordinates. Geophysical Prospecting, 49, 165-178. PDF

Ray Tracing in the Layered Model

  • Yauwing Chen on 2019/11/20

Estimation of the crustal thickness

  • Dongdong Wang on 2019/11/27
  • PPT
  • Scheidegger, A. E. & Willmore, P. L. 1957. The use of a least squares method for the interpretation f data from seismic surveys. Geophysics, 1, 9-22.   PDF
  • Zhu, L. P. & Kanamori, H. 2000. Moho depth variation in southern California from teleseismic receiver functions. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105:B2, 2969-2980.    PDF
  • Tong, P., Yang, D. H., Huang, X. Y. 2019. Multiple-grid model parameterization for seismic tomography with application to the San Jacinto fault zone. Geophysical Journal International, 218, 200-223.   PDF

2018 Fall

1. Paper reading

  Location: SPMS-TR+10 (SPMS-04-10)     Time: Wednesdays SGT 09:00 am

4D evolution of SE Asia’s mantle

  • Shaolin Liu on 2018/08/15
  • Replumaz, A., H. Kárason, R. D. van der Hilst, J. Besse, and P. Tapponnier (2004), 4-D evolution of SE Asia’s mantle from geological reconstructions and seismic tomography, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.221(1), 103-115. PDF

Anisotropic tomography

  • Xueyuan Huang on 2018/08/29
  • Zhao, D., S. Yu, and X. Liu (2016), Seismic anisotropy tomography: New insight into subduction dynamics, Gondwana Research33, 24-43. PDF

Anisotropy tomography in Sumatra

  • Xueyuan Huang on 2018/09/05

Perfectly Matched Layer

  • Yongsheng Liu on 2018/09/12
  • Komatitsch, D., & Tromp, J. (2003). A perfectly matched layer absorbing boundary condition for the second-order seismic wave equation. Geophysical Journal International154(1), 146-153. PDF

Scatter and intrinsic attenuation

  • Jiayuan Yao on 2018/09/19
  • PPTX
  • Shearer, P. M., & Earle, P. S. (2004). The global short-period wavefield modelled with a Monte Carlo seismic phonon method. Geophys. J. Int., 158(3), 1103-1117. PDF

Noise cross-correlation kernels

  • Yongsheng Liu on 2018/09/26
  • PPT
  • Tromp, J., Luo, Y., Hanasoge, S., & Peter, D. (2010). Noise cross-correlation sensitivity kernels. Geophysical Journal International183(2), 791-819. PDF

Delay times

  • Shaolin Liu on 2018/10/10
  • Rawlinson, N., and B. L. N. Kennett (2004), Rapid estimation of relative and absolute delay times across a network by adaptive stacking, Geophys. J. Int.157(1), 332-340. PDF

Body-wave polarization

  • Jiayuan Yao on 2018/10/24
  • PPTX
  • Park, S., & Ishii, M. (2018). Near-surface compressional and shear wave speeds constrained by body-wave polarization analysis. Geophys. J. Int.213(3), 1559-1571. PDF

Phase picking

  • Cheng Yau Wing on 2018/10/31
  • PPT
  • Wyżgolik, R. (2002). Determination of P phase arrival in low-amplitude seismic signals from coal-mines with wavelets. In Signal Processing Conference, 2002 11th European. IEEE. PDF

Spiking deconvolution

  • Cheng Yau Wing on 2018/11/14
  • PPT
  • Sud, S. (2017,). Spiking deconvolution for seismic waves using the Fractional Fourier Transform. In SoutheastCon, 2017. IEEE. PDF

Tomography and raytracing in anisotropic media

  • Yingyu Qi on 2018/11/28 and 2018/12/05
  • PPT1 PPT2
  • Tomography and raytracing in anisotropic media. PDF

 

2. Research progress

week # Name
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 Shaolin Liu, Jiayuan Yao, Yongsheng Liu
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 Cheng Yau Wing, Yingyu Qi

 

3. Individual meeting

Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13

Tuesday Name
3:00-3:30 pm
3:30-4:00 pm Yongsheng Liu
4:00-4:30 pm

 

Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14

Tuesday Name
3:00-3:30 pm Shaolin Liu
3:30-4:00 pm Jiayuan Yao
4:00-4:30 pm Cheng Yau Wing
4:00-4:30 pm Yingyu Qi

 

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