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PAPERS PUBLISHED IN LAST 2 YEARS (for complete list click Papers above)

Submitted manuscripts under review:

Cao, Q., Wang, P. Lamm, R., Van der Hilst, R.D., and De Hoop, M.V., High-resolution imaging of upper mantle discontinuities with a Generalized Radon Transform of SS precursors, Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors (submitted)
Van den Berg, A.P., De Hoop, M.V., Yuen, D.A., Duchkov, A., Van der Hilst, R.D., Evidence for Small-Scale Thermal- and thermal-chemical Convection near the CMB from Joint Multiscale Analysis of Convection Modeling and Seismic Images, Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors (submitted)
Li, C., and Van der Hilst, R.D. High-resolution P-wave tomography of upper mantle beneath East Asia, Journal of Geophysical Research (submitted)
Huang, Y.-C., Yao, H., Huang, B.-S., Wen, K.-L., Huang, W.-G., and Van der Hilst, R.D., Phase velocity variation at very short periods in the Taipei Basisn, Taiwan, from correlation of ambient seismic noise, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (submitted).
Yao, H., Van der Hilst, R.D., and Montagner, J.-P., Structure and Deformation of Crust and Upper Mantle beneath SE Tibet from Surface-Wave Array Tomography, Journal of Geophysical Research (submitted)
Li, Y., Yao, H.J., Liu, Q., Chen, J., Van der Hilst, R.D., Guo, B., Wang, J., Qi, S., Phase velocity array tomography of Rayleigh waves in western Sichuan from ambient seismic noise, Chinese Journal of Geophysics (submitted)

2009

Zhang, H., Wang, P., Van der Hilst, R.D., Tokos, M.N.,Thurber, C., Zhu, L., Three-dimensional Passive Seismic Waveform Imaging around the SAFOD site, California, Using the Generalized Radon Transform, Geophysical Research Letters (in press)
Van Summeren, J., Van den Berg, A.P., and Van der Hilst, R.D., Upwellings from a deep mantle reservoir filtered at the 660 km phase transition in thermo-chemical convection models and implications for intra-plate volcanism, Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors, vol. 172, p. 210-224, 2009. (PDF)
Yao, H., and Van der Hilst, R.D., Analysis of Ambient Noise Energy Distribution and Phase Velocity Bias in Ambient Noise Tomography, with Application to SE Tibet, Geophysical Journal International (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04329.x). (PDF)
Yao, H., De Hoop, M.V., Campman, X., Van der Hilst, R.D., Construction of empirical Green's functions from direct waves, coda waves, and ambient in SE Tibet, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors (doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2009.07.002). (PDF)
De Hoop, M.V., Smith, H., Uhlmann, G, and Van der Hilst, R.D., Seismic imaging with the generalized Radon transform: A curvelet transform perspective, Inverse Problems, v. 25, 025005 (21pp), doi: 10.1088/0266-5611/25/2/025005, 2009. (PDF)
Burdick, S., Van der Hilst, R.D., Vernon, F.L., Martynov, V., Cox, T., Eakins, J., Astiz, L, Pavlis, G.L., Model Update December 2008: Upper mantle heterogeneity beneath North America from travel time tomography with global and USArray Transportable Array data, Seismological Research Letters, v. 80, p. 638-646, 2009. (PDF)

2008

Beghein, C., Resovsky, J., and Van der Hilst, R.D., The effect of mantle anisotropy on normal mode coupling, Geophysical Journal International, vol. 175, p. 1209-1234, 2008. (PDF)
Burchfiel, B.C., Royden, L.H., Van der Hilst, R.D., Hager, B.H., Chen, Z., King, R.W., Li, C., Lu, Y., Yao, H., Kirby, E., A geological and geophysical context for the Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008, Sichuan, People's Republic of China, Geological Society of America Today, vol. 18, no. 7, doi: 10.1130/GSATG18A.1., 2008. (PDF)
Burdick, S., Li, C., Martynov, V., Cox, T., Eakins, J., Astiz, L, Vernon, F.L., Pavlis, G.L., Van der Hilst, R.D., Upper mantle heterogeneity beneath North America from travel time tomography with global and USArray transportable array data, Seismological Research Letters, vol. 79:3, p. 384-392, 2008. (PDF)
Lebedev, S. and Van der Hilst, R.D., Global upper-mantle tomography with the automated multi-mode surface and S waveforms, Geophysical Journal International, vol. 173, 2008 (PDF)
Li, C., Van der Hilst, R.D., Engdahl, E.R., and Burdick, S., A new global model for P-wavespeed variations in Earth's mantle, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol. 9, Q05018, doi:10.1029/2007GC001806. (PDF)
Li, C., Van der Hilst, R.D., Meltzer, A.S., and Engdahl, E.R., Subduction of the Indian lithosphere beneath the Tibetan Plateau and Burma, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 274, p. 157-168, 2008. (PDF)
Long, M.L., De Hoop, M.V., and Van der Hilst, R.D., Wave-equation shear wave splitting tomography, Geophysical Journal International, vol. 172, p. 311-330, 2008 (PDF)
Royden, L.H., Burchfiel, B.C., and Van der Hilst, R.D., The Geological Evolution of the Tibetan Plateau, Science, vol. 321, p. 1054-1058, 2008. (PDF)
Wang, P., De Hoop, M.V., and Van der Hilst, R.D., Imaging of the lowermost mantle (D'') and the core-mantle boundary with SKKS coda waves, Geophysical Journal International, vol. 175, p. 103-115, 2008. (PDF)
Yao, H., Beghein, C., and Van der Hilst, R.D., Surface-wave array tomography in SE Tibet from ambient seismic noise and two-station analysis: II - crustal and upper mantle structure, Geophysical Journal International, vol. 173, 205-219, 2008 (PDF)
Yi, G.-x., Yao, H., Zhu, J.-s, and Van der Hilst, R.D., Rayleigh wave phase velocity distribution in continental China and its adjacent regions, Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), vol. 51, p. 402-411, 2008. (PDF)