US Models
(1) Isotropic Vsv model of the crust and uppermost mantle computed from Rayleigh wave dispersion data and receiver functions observed across USArray determined from ambient noise and earthquake data in the central and western US.
Author: Weisen Shen (Weisen.Shen@colorado.edu)
Reference: Shen, W., M.H. Ritzwoller, and V. Schulte-Pelkum, A 3-D model of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the central and western US by joint inversion of receiver functions and surface wave dispersion, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2012JB009602, 2013. (pdf)
Description/Format: Model Description
Link: WCUS_Shen_2012
(2) Azimuthally anisotropic Vsv model of the crust and uppermost mantle computed from Rayleigh wave dispersion data observed across USArray determined from ambient noise and earthquake data in the far western US.
Author: Fan-Chi Lin, now at Caltech (linf@caltech.edu)
Reference: Lin, F.-C., Ritzwoller, M. H., Yang, Y., Moschetti, M. P., & Fouch, M. J. (2010). Complex and variable crustal and uppermost mantle seismic anisotropy in the western United States. Nature Geoscience, 4(1), 55-61. Nature Publishing Group. doi:10.1038/ngeo1036. (pdf)
Description/Format: Model Description
Link: AA_WUS_Lin_2010
(3) Radially anisotriopic (Vsv, Vsh) model of the crust and uppermost mantle computed from Rayleigh and Love wave dispersion data observed across USArray determined from ambient noise and earthquake (Rayleigh only) data in the far western US.
Author: Morgan Moschetti, now at USGS-Golden (mmoschetti@usgs.gov)
References:
Moschetti, M.P., M.H. Ritzwoller, F.C. Lin, and Y. Yang, Crustal shear velocity structure of the western US inferred from amient noise and earthquake data, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B10306, doi:10.1029/2010JB007448, 2010. (pdf)
Moschetti, M.P., M.H. Ritzwoller, and F.C. Lin, Seismic evidence for widespread crustal deformation caused by extension in the western USA, Nature, 464, Number 7290, 885-889, 8 April 2010. (pdf)
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(4) Isotropic Vsv model of the crust and uppermost mantle computed from Rayleigh wave dispersion observed across USArray determined from ambient noise and earthquake data in the far western US.
Author: Yingjie Yang, now at Macquarie University (yingjie.yang@mq.edu.au)
Reference: Yang, Y., Ritzwoller, M. H., Lin, F.-C., Moschetti, M. P., & Shapiro, N. M. (2008). Structure of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the western United States revealed by ambient noise and earthquake tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113(B12), 1-9. doi:10.1029/2008JB005833. (pdf)
Description/Format: Model Description
Link: WUS_Yang_2008
China/Tibet Models
(1) Isotropic Vsv model of the crust and uppermost mantle computed from Rayleigh wave dispersion observed with CEArray, China Array, NECESS Array, Fnet, KNET, and PASSCAL data.
Author: Weisen Shen (weisen.shen@colorado.edu)
Reference: Shen, W., M.H. Ritzwoller, D. Kang, Y. Kim, J. Ning, F.-C. Lin, W. Wang, Y. Zheng, and L. Zhou, A seismic reference model for the crust and uppermost mantle beneath China from surface wave dispersion, Geophys. J. Int., 206(2), 954-979, 2016. (pdf)
Description/Format: Model Description
Link: Shen_China_2016
(2) Isotropic Vsv model of the crust and uppermost mantle computed from Rayleigh wave dispersion observed with CEArray and PASSCAL data determined from ambient noise across Tibet.
Author: Yingjie Yang, now at Macquarie University (yingjie.yang@mq.edu.au)
Reference: Yang, Y., M.H. Ritzwoller, Y. Zheng, A.L. Levshin, and Z. Xie, A synoptic view of the distribution and connectivity of the mid-crustal low velocity zone beneath Tibet, J. Geophys. Res., 117, B04303, doi:10.1029/2011JB008810, 2012. (pdf)
Description/Format: Model Description
Link: Yang_Tibet_2012
(3) Isotropic Vsv model of the crust and uppermost mantle computed from Rayleigh wave dispersion observed across CEArray in South China determined from ambient noise and earthquake data.
Author: Longquan Zhou, Chinese Earthquake Administration, Beijing (lqzhou@seis.ac.cn)
Reference: Zhou, L., J. Xie, W. Shen, Y. Zheng, Y. Yang. H. Shi, and M.H. Ritzwoller, The structure of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath South China from ambient noise and earthquake tomography, Geophys. J. Int., 189, 1565-1583, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05423.x, 2012. (pdf)
Description/Format: Model Description
Link: Zhou_SChina_2012
(4) Isotropic Vsv model of the crust and uppermost mantle computed from Rayleigh wave dispersion observed with CEArray and F-Net determined from ambient noise in northeastern China, the Korean Peninsula, the Sea of Japan, and Japan.
Author: Yong Zheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan (zhengyong@whigg.ac.cn)
Reference: Zheng, Y., W. Shen, L. Zhou, Y. Yang, Z. Xie, and M.H. Ritzwoller, Crust and uppermost mantle beneath the North China Craton, northeastern China, and the Sea of Japan from ambient noise tomography, J. Geophys. Res., 116, B12312, doi:10.1029/2011JB008637, 2011. (pdf)
Description/Format: Model Description
Link: Zheng_NEChina_2011
Global Models
(1) Global radially anisotropic model of the crust and upper mantle from single-station teleseismic Rayleigh and Love wave group velocities and phase velocities (Harvard, Utrecht) on a 2 deg grid.
Author: Nikolai Shapiro, now at IPG-Paris (nshapiro@ipgp.jussieu.fr)
Reference: Shapiro, N.M. and M.H. Ritzwoller, Monte-Carlo inversion for a global shear velocity model of the crust and upper mantle, Geophys. J. Int., 151, 88-105, 2002.