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Overview

Fan Chi Lin is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States and has focused their research within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work is heavily concentrated on geophysics, with significant contributions also made in artificial intelligence, atmospheric science, ocean engineering, and mechanical engineering.

The primary topics covered in their research include:

  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Fan Chi Lin has published extensively across several renowned scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Seismological Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Geophysical Journal International

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • "Shear Velocity Model of Alaska Via Joint Inversion of Rayleigh Wave Ellipticity, Phase Velocities, and Receiver Functions Across the Alaska Transportable Array," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Spatiotemporal Seismic Structure Variations Associated With the 2018 Kīlauea Eruption Based on Temporary Dense Geophone Arrays," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Imaging the Subsurface Plumbing Complex of Steamboat Geyser and Cistern Spring With Hydrothermal Tremor Migration Using Seismic Interferometry," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Analysis of Fault Zone Resonance Modes Recorded by a Dense Seismic Array Across the San Jacinto Fault Zone at Blackburn Saddle," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Seismic Tomography 2024," 2024, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors including:

  • A. A. Allam
  • Sin-Mei Wu
  • Jamie Farrell
  • Cheng-Nan Liu
  • Qicheng Zeng

Fan Chi Lin's research contributions are situated primarily within geophysical investigations concerning seismic wave behavior and subsurface imaging. Their work also integrates methodologies from artificial intelligence to address complex problems in earth sciences.

Best Publications

  • Processing seismic ambient noise data to obtain reliable broad-band surface wave dispersion measurements

    G. D. Bensen;M. H. Ritzwoller;M. P. Barmin;A. L. Levshin

  • Surface wave tomography of the western United States from ambient seismic noise: Rayleigh and Love wave phase velocity maps

    Fan-Chi Lin;Morgan P. Moschetti;Michael H. Ritzwoller

  • High-resolution 3D shallow crustal structure in Long Beach, California: Application of ambient noise tomography on a dense seismic array

    Fan Chi Lin;Dunzhu Li;Robert W. Clayton;Dan Hollis

  • Eikonal tomography: surface wave tomography by phase front tracking across a regional broad‐band seismic array

    Fan Chi Lin;Michael H. Ritzwoller;Roel Snieder

  • A seismic reference model for the crust and uppermost mantle beneath China from surface wave dispersion

    Weisen Shen;Michael H. Ritzwoller;Dou Kang;Young Hee Kim

  • Ambient noise Rayleigh wave tomography of New Zealand

    Fan Chi Lin;Michael H. Ritzwoller;John Townend;Stephen Bannister

  • Joint inversion of surface wave dispersion and receiver functions: a Bayesian Monte-Carlo approach

    Weisen Shen;Michael H. Ritzwoller;Vera Schulte-Pelkum;Fan Chi Lin

  • The Yellowstone magmatic system from the mantle plume to the upper crust

    Hsin Hua Huang;Fan Chi Lin;Brandon Schmandt;Jamie Farrell

  • P and S wave tomography of the mantle beneath the United States

    Brandon Schmandt;Fan Chi Lin

  • Structure of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the western United States revealed by ambient noise and earthquake tomography

    Yingjie Yang;Michael H. Ritzwoller;F.-C. Lin;M. P. Moschetti

  • Seismic evidence for widespread western-US deep-crustal deformation caused by extension

    M. P. Moschetti;M. H. Ritzwoller;F. Lin;Y. Yang

  • Helmholtz surface wave tomography for isotropic and azimuthally anisotropic structure

    Fan Chi Lin;Michael H. Ritzwoller

  • Complex and variable crustal and uppermost mantle seismic anisotropy in the western United States

    Fan Chi Lin;Michael H. Ritzwoller;Yingjie Yang;Morgan P. Moschetti

  • Ambient noise tomography with a large seismic array

    Michael H. Ritzwoller;Fan Chi Lin;Weisen Shen

  • Distinct crustal isostasy trends east and west of the Rocky Mountain Front

    Brandon Schmandt;Fan Chi Lin;Karl E. Karlstrom

  • Extracting seismic core phases with array interferometry

    Fan Chi Lin;Victor C. Tsai;Brandon Schmandt;Zacharie Duputel

  • Joint inversion of Rayleigh wave phase velocity and ellipticity using USArray: Constraining velocity and density structure in the upper crust

    Fan Chi Lin;Brandon Schmandt;Victor C. Tsai

  • Crustal shear wave velocity structure of the western United States inferred from ambient seismic noise and earthquake data

    M. P. Moschetti;M. P. Moschetti;M. H. Ritzwoller;F.-C. Lin;Y. Yang

  • 3-D crustal structure of the western United States: application of Rayleigh-wave ellipticity extracted from noise cross-correlations

    Fan Chi Lin;Victor C. Tsai;Brandon Schmandt

  • Holocene Monsoon Change and Abrupt Events on the Western Chinese Loess Plateau as Revealed by Accurately Dated Stalagmites

    Liangcheng Tan;Yanzhen Li;Yanzhen Li;Xiqian Wang;Yanjun Cai

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael H. Ritzwoller
Michael H. Ritzwoller University of Colorado Boulder
Brandon Schmandt
Brandon Schmandt University of New Mexico
Victor C. Tsai
Victor C. Tsai Brown University
Yehuda Ben-Zion
Yehuda Ben-Zion University of Southern California
Robert B. Smith
Robert B. Smith University of Utah
Gerard T. Schuster
Gerard T. Schuster University of Utah
Robert W. Clayton
Robert W. Clayton California Institute of Technology
John Townend
John Townend Victoria University of Wellington
Keith D. Koper
Keith D. Koper University of Utah
Yingjie Yang
Yingjie Yang Southern University of Science and Technology

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