Tsai, Victor C.

Combined from CaltechAUTHORS

• Labedz, Celeste R. and Bartholomaus, Timothy C., et el. (2022) Seismic Mapping of Subglacial Hydrology Reveals Previously Undetected Pressurization Event; Journal of Geophysical Research. Earth Surface; Vol. 127; No. 3; Art. No. e2021JF006406; 10.1029/2021jf006406
• Muir, Jack B. and Clayton, Robert W., et el. (2022) Parsimonious Velocity Inversion Applied to the Los Angeles Basin, CA; Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth; Vol. 127; No. 2; Art. No. e2021JB023103; 10.1029/2021jb023103
• Allstadt, Kate E. and Farin, Maxime, et el. (2020) Measuring Basal Force Fluctuations of Debris Flows Using Seismic Recordings and Empirical Green's Functions; Journal of Geophysical Research. Earth Surface; Vol. 125; No. 9; Art. No. e2020JF005590; 10.1029/2020jf005590
• Lambert, Valère and Tsai, Victor C. (2020) Time-Dependent Stresses From Fluid Extraction and Diffusion With Applications to Induced Seismicity; Journal of Applied Mechanics; Vol. 87; No. 8; Art. No. 081002; 10.1115/1.4047034
• Brissaud, Quentin and Bowden, Daniel C., et el. (2020) Extension of the Basin Rayleigh-Wave Amplification Theory to Include Basin-Edge Effects; Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; Vol. 110; No. 3; 1305-1322; 10.1785/0120190161
• Muir, Jack B. and Tsai, Victor C. (2020) Did Oldham Discover the Core After All? Handling Imprecise Historical Data with Hierarchical Bayesian Model Selection Methods; Seismological Research Letters; Vol. 91; No. 3; 1377-1383; 10.1785/0220190266
• Muir, Jack B. and Tsai, Victor C. (2020) Geometric and Level Set Tomography using Ensemble Kalman Inversion; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 220; No. 2; 967-980; 10.1093/gji/ggz472
• Park, Sunyoung and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2019) Frequency-Dependent P Wave Polarization and Its Subwavelength Near-Surface Depth Sensitivity; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 46; No. 24; 14377-14384; 10.1029/2019gl084892
• Brissaud, Quentin and Tsai, Victor C. (2019) Validation of a fast semi-analytic method for surface-wave propagation in layered media; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 219; No. 2; 1405-1420; 10.1093/gji/ggz351
• de Kleer, Katherine and McEwen, Alfred S., et el. (2019) Tidal Heating: Lessons from Io and the Jovian System - Final Report; 10.26206/d4wc-6v82
• Farin, Maxime and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2019) A physical model of the high-frequency seismic signal generated by debris flows; Earth Surface Processes and Landforms; Vol. 44; No. 13; 2529-2543; 10.1002/esp.4677
• Meyers, Patrick and Bowden, Daniel C., et el. (2019) Direct Observations of Surface‐Wave Eigenfunctions at the Homestake 3D Array; Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; Vol. 109; No. 4; 1194-1202; 10.1785/0120190026
• Fichtner, Andreas and Tsai, Victor C. (2019) Theoretical Foundations of Noise Interferometry; ISBN 9781108417082; Sesimic Ambient Noise; 109-143; 10.1017/9781108264808.006
• Park, R. S. and de Kleer, K., et el. (2019) Tidal Heating: Lessons from Io and the Jovian System (Report from the KISS Workshop)
• Coughlin, M. and Harms, J., et el. (2019) Coherence-based approaches for estimating the composition of the seismic wavefield; Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth; Vol. 124; No. 3; 2941-2956; 10.1029/2018jb016608
• Gimbert, Florent and Fuller, Brian M., et el. (2019) Particle transport mechanics and induced seismic noise in steep flume experiments with accelerometer-embedded tracers; Earth Surface Processes and Landforms; Vol. 44; No. 1; 219-241; 10.1002/esp.4495
• Robel, Alexander A. and Tsai, Victor C. (2018) A Simple Model for Deglacial Meltwater Pulses; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 45; No. 21; 11742-11750; 10.1029/2018GL080884
• Mandic, Vuk and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2018) A 3D Broadband Seismometer Array Experiment at the Homestake Mine; Seismological Research Letters; Vol. 89; No. 6; 2420-2429; 10.1785/0220170228
• Tsai, Victor C. and Ruan, Xiaozhou (2018) A simple physics-based improvement to the positive degree day model; Journal of Glaciology; Vol. 64; No. 246; 661-668; 10.1017/jog.2018.55
• Chen, Haichao and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2018) Observations and modeling of long-period ground-motion amplification across northeast China; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 45; No. 12; 5968-5976; 10.1029/2018GL078212
• Lai, Voon Hui and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2018) The Seismic Signature of Debris Flows: Flow Mechanics and Early Warning at Montecito, California; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 45; No. 11; 5528-5535; 10.1029/2018GL077683
• Panning, Mark P. and Stähler, Simon C., et el. (2018) Expected seismicity and the seismic noise environment of Europa; Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets; Vol. 123; No. 1; 163-179; 10.1002/2017JE005332
• Vance, Steven D. and Kedar, Sharon, et el. (2018) Vital Signs: Seismology of Icy Ocean Worlds; Astrobiology; Vol. 18; No. 1; 37-53; 10.1089/ast.2016.1612
• Bowden, Daniel C. and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2017) Amplification and Attenuation across USArray using Ambient Noise Wavefront Tracking; Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth; Vol. 122; No. 12; 10086-10101; 10.1002/2017JB014804
• Huang, Hsin-Hua and Aso, Naofumi, et el. (2017) Toward automated directivity estimates in earthquake moment tensor inversion; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 211; No. 2; 1062-1076; 10.1093/gji/ggx354
• Hough, Susan E. and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2017) Was the M_w 7.5 1952 Kern County, California, earthquake induced (or triggered)?; Journal of Seismology; Vol. 21; No. 6; 1613-1621; 10.1007/s10950-017-9685-x
• Aso, Naofumi and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2017) Seismologically Observed Spatiotemporal Drainage Activity at Moulins; Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth; Vol. 122; No. 11; 9095-9108; 10.1002/2017JB014578
• Muir, Jack B. and Tsai, Victor C. (2017) Rayleigh-Wave H/V via Noise Cross Correlation in Southern California; Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; Vol. 107; No. 5; 2021-2027; 10.1785/0120170051
• Tsai, Victor C. and Bowden, Daniel C., et el. (2017) Explaining Extreme Ground Motion in Osaka Basin during the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 44; No. 14; 7239-7244; 10.1002/2017GL074120
• Haney, Matthew M. and Tsai, Victor C. (2017) Perturbational and nonperturbational inversion of Rayleigh-wave velocities; Geophysics; Vol. 82; No. 3; F15-F28; 10.1190/GEO2016-0397.1
• Schmandt, B. and Gaeuman, D., et el. (2017) Seismic array constraints on reach-scale bedload transport; Geology; Vol. 45; No. 4; 299-302; 10.1130/G38639.1
• Robel, Alexander A. and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2017) Tidal modulation of ice shelf buttressing stresses; Annals of Glaciology; Vol. 58; No. 74; 12-20; 10.1017/aog.2017.22
• Bowden, Daniel C. and Tsai, Victor C. (2017) Earthquake ground motion amplification for surface waves; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 44; No. 1; 121-127; 10.1002/2016GL071885
• Lin, Yen-Yu and Ma, Kuo-Fong, et el. (2016) Evidence for non-self-similarity of microearthquakes recorded at a Taiwan borehole seismometer array; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 206; No. 2; 757-773; 10.1093/gji/ggw172
• Bowden, D. C. and Kohler, M. D., et el. (2016) Offshore Southern California lithospheric velocity structure from noise cross-correlation functions; Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth; Vol. 121; No. 5; 3415-3427; 10.1002/2016JB012919
• Gimbert, Florent and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2016) Subseasonal changes observed in subglacial channel pressure, size, and sediment transport; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 43; No. 8; 3786-3794; 10.1002/2016GL068337
• Huang, Hsin-Hua and Lin, Fan-Chi, et el. (2015) High-resolution probing of inner core structure with seismic interferometry; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 42; No. 24; 10622-10630; 10.1002/2015GL066390
• Haney, Matthew M. and Tsai, Victor C. (2015) Nonperturbational surface-wave inversion: A Dix-type relation for surface waves; Geophysics; Vol. 80; No. 6; EN167-EN177; 10.1190/GEO2014-0612.1
• Gimbert, Florent and Tsai, Victor C. (2015) Predicting short-period, wind-wave-generated seismic noise in coastal regions; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 426; 280-292; 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.06.017
• Stevenson, David J. and Cutts, James A., et el. (2015) Probing the Interior Structure of Venus; 10.26206/C1CX-EV12
• Rice, James R. and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2015) Time Scale for Rapid Draining of a Surficial Lake Into the Greenland Ice Sheet; Journal of Applied Mechanics; Vol. 82; No. 7; Art. No. 071001; 10.1115/1.4030325
• Dow, C. F. and Kulessa, B., et el. (2015) Modeling of subglacial hydrological development following rapid supraglacial lake drainage; Journal of Geophysical Research. Earth Surface; Vol. 120; No. 6; 1127-1147; 10.1002/2014JF003333
• Huang, Hsin-Hua and Lin, Fan-Chi, et el. (2015) The Yellowstone magmatic system from the mantle plume to the upper crust; Science; Vol. 348; No. 6236; 773-776; 10.1126/science.aaa5648
• Bowden, D. C. and Tsai, V. C., et el. (2015) Site amplification, attenuation, and scattering from noise correlation amplitudes across a dense array in Long Beach, CA; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 42; No. 5; 1360-1367; 10.1002/2014GL062662
• Chao, Wei-An and Wu, Yih-Min, et el. (2015) Seismologically determined bedload flux during the typhoon season; Scientific Reports; Vol. 5; Art. No. 8261; PMCID PMC4317699; 10.1038/srep08261
• Tsai, Victor C. and Stewart, Andrew L., et el. (2015) Marine ice-sheet profiles and stability under Coulomb basal conditions; Journal of Glaciology; Vol. 61; No. 226; 205-215; 10.3189/2015JoG14J221
• Tsai, Victor C. and Gudmundsson, G. Hilmar (2015) An improved model for tidally modulated grounding-line migration; Journal of Glaciology; Vol. 61; No. 226; 216-222; 10.3189/2015JoG14J152
• Thompson, J. and Simons, M., et el. (2014) Modeling the elastic transmission of tidal stresses to great distances inland in channelized ice streams; Cryosphere; Vol. 8; No. 6; 2007-2029; 10.5194/tc-8-2007-2014
• Aso, Naofumi and Tsai, Victor C. (2014) Cooling magma model for deep volcanic long-period earthquakes; Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth; Vol. 119; No. 11; 8442-8456; 10.1002/2014JB011180
• Tsai, Victor C. and Atiganyanun, Sarun (2014) Green's Functions for Surface Waves in a Generic Velocity Structure; Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; Vol. 104; No. 5; 2573-2578; 10.1785/0120140121
• Gimbert, Florent and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2014) A physical model for seismic noise generation by turbulent flow in rivers; Journal of Geophysical Research. Earth Surface; Vol. 119; No. 10; 2209-2238; 10.1002/2014JF003201
• Lin, Fan-Chi and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2014) 3-D crustal structure of the western United States: application of Rayleigh-wave ellipticity extracted from noise cross-correlations; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 198; No. 2; 656-670; 10.1093/gji/ggu160
• Tsai, Victor Chen (2014) The Use of Simple Physical Models in Seismology and Glaciology
• Zhan, Zhongwen and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2014) Ambient noise correlation on the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 196; No. 3; 1796-1802; 10.1093/gji/ggt488
• Zhan, Zhongwen and Kanamori, Hiroo, et el. (2014) Rupture complexity of the 1994 Bolivia and 2013 Sea of Okhotsk deep earthquakes; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 385; 89-96; 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.10.028
• Schmandt, Brandon and Aster, Richard C., et el. (2013) Multiple fluvial processes detected by riverside seismic and infrasound monitoring of a controlled flood in the Grand Canyon; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 40; No. 18; 4858-4863; 10.1002/grl.50953
• Lin, Fan-Chi and Tsai, Victor C. (2013) Seismic interferometry with antipodal station pairs; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 40; No. 17; 4609-4613; 10.1002/grl.50907
• Zhan, Zhongwen and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2013) Spurious velocity changes caused by temporal variations in ambient noise frequency content; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 194; No. 3; 1574-1581; 10.1093/gji/ggt170
• Duputel, Zacharie and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2013) Using centroid time-delays to characterize source durations and identify earthquakes with unique characteristics; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 374; 92-100; 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.05.024
• Lin, Fan-Chi and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2013) Extracting seismic core phases with array interferometry; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 40; No. 6; 1049-1053; 10.1002/grl.50237
• Ma, Yiran and Clayton, Robert W., et el. (2013) Locating a scatterer in the active volcanic area of Southern Peru from ambient noise cross-correlation; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 192; No. 3; 1332-1341; 10.1093/gji/ggs103
• Tsai, Victor C. and Ampuero, Jean-Paul, et el. (2013) Estimating the effect of Earth elasticity and variable water density on tsunami speeds; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 40; No. 3; 492-496; 10.1002/grl.50147
• Zhan, Zhongwen and Helmberger, Don, et el. (2012) Anomalously steep dips of earthquakes in the 2011 Tohoku-Oki source region and possible explanations; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 353-35; 121-133; 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.07.038
• Duputel, Zacharie and Kanamori, Hiroo, et el. (2012) The 2012 Sumatra great earthquake sequence; Earth and Planetary Science Letters; Vol. 351; 247-257; 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.07.017
• Meng, L. and Ampuero, J.-P., et el. (2012) Earthquake in a Maze: Compressional Rupture Branching During the 2012 M_w 8.6 Sumatra Earthquake; Science; Vol. 337; No. 6095; 724-726; 10.1126/science.1224030
• Lin, Fan-Chi and Schmandt, Brandon, et el. (2012) Joint inversion of Rayleigh wave phase velocity and ellipticity using USArray: Constraining velocity and density structure in the upper crust; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 39; No. 12; Art. No. L12303; 10.1029/2012GL052196
• Lin, Fan-Chi and Tsai, Victor C., et el. (2012) The local amplification of surface waves: A new observable to constrain elastic velocities, density, and anelastic attenuation; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 117; No. B6; Art. No. B06302; 10.1029/2012JB009208
• Tsai, Victor C. and Rice, James R. (2012) Modeling Turbulent Hydraulic Fracture Near a Free Surface; Journal of Applied Mechanics; Vol. 79; No. 3; Art. No. 031003; 10.1115/1.4005879
• Tsai, Victor C. and Minchew, Brent, et el. (2012) A physical model for seismic noise generation from sediment transport in rivers; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 39; No. L2; Art. No. L02404; 10.1029/2011GL050255
• Tsai, Victor C. and McNamara, Daniel E. (2011) Quantifying the influence of sea ice on ocean microseism using observations from the Bering Sea, Alaska; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 38; No. 22; Art. No. L22502; 10.1029/2011GL049791
• Love, Jeffrey J. and Mursula, Kalevi, et el. (2011) Are secular correlations between sunspots, geomagnetic activity, and global temperature significant?; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 38; No. 21; Art. No. L21703; 10.1029/2011GL049380
• Tsai, Victor C. and Hayes, Gavin P., et el. (2011) Constraints on the long-period moment-dip tradeoff for the Tohoku earthquake; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 38; No. 7; Art. No. L00G17; 10.1029/2011GL049129
• Tsai, Victor C. (2011) Understanding the amplitudes of noise correlation measurements; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 116; No. B9; Art. No. B09311; 10.1029/2011JB008483
• Tsai, Victor C. (2011) A model for seasonal changes in GPS positions and seismic wave speeds due to thermoelastic and hydrologic variations; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 116; No. B4; Art. No. B04404; 10.1029/2010JB008156
• Love, J. J. and Tsai, V. C., et el. (2010) Averaging and sampling for magnetic-observatory hourly data; Annales Geophysicae; Vol. 28; No. 11; 2079-2096; 10.5194/angeo-28-2079-2010
• Tsai, Victor C. (2010) The relationship between noise correlation and the Green's function in the presence of degeneracy and the absence of equipartition; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 182; No. 3; 1509-1514; 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04693.x
• Tsai, Victor C. and Rice, James R. (2010) A model for turbulent hydraulic fracture and application to crack propagation at glacier beds; Journal of Geophysical Research F; Vol. 115; No. F3; Art. No. F03007; 10.1029/2009JF001474
• Tsai, Victor C. and Moschetti, Morgan P. (2010) An explicit relationship between time-domain noise correlation and spatial autocorrelation (SPAC) results; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 182; No. 1; 454-460; 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04633.x
• Tsai, Victor C. (2009) On establishing the accuracy of noise tomography travel-time measurements in a realistic medium; Geophysical Journal International; Vol. 178; No. 3; 1555-1564; 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04239.x
• Tsai, Victor C. and Rice, James R., et el. (2008) Possible mechanisms for glacial earthquakes; Journal of Geophysical Research F; Vol. 113; No. F3; Art. No. F03014; 10.1029/2007JF000944
• Joughin, Ian and Howat, Ian, et el. (2008) Ice-front variation and tidewater behavior on Helheim and Kangerdlugssuaq Glaciers, Greenland; Journal of Geophysical Research F; Vol. 113; No. F1; Art. No. F01004; 10.1029/2007JF000837
• Tsai, Victor C. and Ekström, Göran (2007) Analysis of glacial earthquakes; Journal of Geophysical Research F; Vol. 112; No. F3; Art. No. F03S22; 10.1029/2006JF000596
• Tsai, Victor C. and Wettlaufer, J. S. (2007) Star patterns on lake ice; Physical Review E; Vol. 75; No. 6; Art. No. 066105; 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.066105
• Tsai, Victor C. and Stevenson, David J. (2007) Theoretical constraints on true polar wander; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 112; No. B5; Art. No. B05415; 10.1029/2005JB003923
• Ekström, Göran and Nettles, Meredith, et el. (2006) Seasonality and increasing frequency of Greenland glacial earthquakes; Science; Vol. 311; No. 5768; 1756-1758; 10.1126/science.1122112
• Tsai, Victor C. and Nettles, Meredith, et el. (2005) Multiple CMT source analysis of the 2004 Sumatra earthquake; Geophysical Research Letters; Vol. 32; No. 17; Art. No. L17304; 10.1029/2005GL023813
• Tsai, Victor C. and Kanamori, Hiroo, et el. (2004) The morning glory wave of southern California; Journal of Geophysical Research B; Vol. 109; No. B2; Art. No. B02307; 10.1029/2003JB002596
• Tsai, Victor C. and Weinstein, Alan J., et el. (2001) LIGO Physics Environmental Monitoring at the 40-meter Prototype