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Charles A. Langston

Charles A. Langston

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Earth Science

D-Index
53
Citations
11597
World Ranking
2836
National Ranking
1167

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Charles A. Langston is affiliated with the University of Memphis in the United States and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily addresses several subfields, including geophysics, astronomy and astrophysics, language and linguistics, artificial intelligence, and ocean engineering.

The scientist's research topics broadly cover seismic waves and analysis, astro and planetary science, planetary science and exploration, ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, seismology and earthquake studies, as well as high-pressure geophysics and materials.

Charles A. Langston's recent published papers include:

  • Geophysical Observations of the 2023 September 24 OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule Reentry, 2024, The Planetary Science Journal
  • Directionality of ambient noise in the Mississippi embayment, 2020, Geophysical Journal International
  • Detecting lithospheric discontinuities beneath the Mississippi Embayment using S-wave receiver functions, 2021, Geophysical Journal International
  • Donald V. Helmberger's art and science of waveforms, 2022, Earthquake Science
  • Čakavian, 2020, Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Langston include Elizabeth A. Silber, Daniel Bowman, C. Carr, David P. Eisenberg, and Brian R. Elbing.

The publication venues in which Langston frequently contributes are:

  • Geophysical Journal International
  • The Planetary Science Journal
  • Earthquake Science
  • Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online
  • Slovene Linguistic Studies

Langston's work has been recognized with honors, including being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Structure under Mount Rainier, Washington, inferred from teleseismic body waves

    Charles A. Langston

  • A Procedure for Modelling Shallow Dislocation Sources

    Charles A. Langston;Donald V. Helmberger

  • The effect of planar dipping structure on source and receiver responses for constant ray parameter

    Charles A. Langston

  • Corvallis, Oregon, crustal and upper mantle receiver structure from teleseismic P and S waves

    Charles A. Langston

  • Modeling crustal structure through the use of converted phases in teleseismic body-wave forms

    L. J. Burdick;Charles A. Langston

  • Automatic microseismic denoising and onset detection using the synchrosqueezed continuous wavelet transform

    S. Mostafa Mousavi;Charles A. Langston;Stephen P. Horton

  • Crustal structure in Ethiopia and Kenya from receiver function analysis: Implications for rift development in eastern Africa

    Mulugeta T. Dugda;Andrew A. Nyblade;Jordi Julia;Charles A. Langston

  • Source inversion of seismic waveforms: The Koyna, India, earthquakes of 13 September 1967

    Charles A. Langston

  • Hybrid Seismic Denoising Using Higher-Order Statistics and Improved Wavelet Block Thresholding

    S. Mostafa Mousavi;Charles A. Langston

  • Upper mantle seismic velocity structure beneath Tanzania, east Africa: Implications for the stability of cratonic lithosphere

    Jeroen Ritsema;Jeroen Ritsema;Andrew A. Nyblade;Thomas J. Owens;Charles A. Langston

  • Seismic evidence for a deep upper mantle thermal anomaly beneath east Africa

    Andrew A. Nyblade;Thomas J. Owens;Harold Gurrola;Jeroen Ritsema

  • East African earthquakes below 20 km depth and their implications for crustal structure

    Andrew A. Nyblade;Charles A. Langston

  • Crustal structure of the East African Plateau from receiver functions and Rayleigh wave phase velocities

    Andrew A. Nyblade;Charles A. Langston;Thomas J. Owens

  • Seismic features and automatic discrimination of deep and shallow induced-microearthquakes using neural network and logistic regression

    S. Mostafa Mousavi;Stephen P. Horton;Charles A. Langston;Borhan Samei

  • A body wave inversion of the Koyna, India, earthquake of December 10, 1967, and some implications for body wave focal mechanisms

    Charles A. Langston

  • Automatic noise-removal/signal-removal based on general cross-validation thresholding in synchrosqueezed domain and its application on earthquake data

    S. Mostafa Mousavi;Charles A. Langston

  • Depth of faulting during the 1968 Meckering, Australia, Earthquake sequence determined from waveform analysis of local seismograms

    Charles A. Langston

  • The February 9, 1971 San Fernando earthquake: A study of source finiteness in teleseismic body waves

    Charles A. Langston

  • Evidence for the subducting lithosphere under southern Vancouver Island and western Oregon from teleseismic P wave conversions

    Charles A. Langston

  • Mantle transition zone structure beneath Tanzania, east Africa

    Thomas J. Owens;Andrew A. Nyblade;Harold Gurrola;Charles A. Langston

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew A. Nyblade
Andrew A. Nyblade Pennsylvania State University
Thomas J. Owens
Thomas J. Owens University of South Carolina
Paul Bodin
Paul Bodin University of Washington
Charles J. Ammon
Charles J. Ammon Pennsylvania State University
Robert Smalley
Robert Smalley University of Memphis
Robert B. Herrmann
Robert B. Herrmann Saint Louis University
Anastasia Kiratzi
Anastasia Kiratzi Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Jeroen Ritsema
Jeroen Ritsema University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael Bevis
Michael Bevis The Ohio State University
Walter D. Mooney
Walter D. Mooney United States Geological Survey

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