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Frédéric Deschamps

Frédéric Deschamps

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Earth Science

D-Index
32
Citations
3877
World Ranking
8688
National Ranking
44

Overview

Frédéric Deschamps is affiliated with Academia Sinica in Taiwan and focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, notably Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Materials Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering. The core areas of study include high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, astro and planetary science, planetary science and exploration, geology and paleoclimatology research, as well as seismic waves and analysis.

Frequent publication venues for Deschamps include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Deschamps are:

  • Estimating core-mantle boundary temperature from seismic shear velocity and attenuation, 2022, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Tidally Heated Convection and the Occurrence of Melting in Icy Satellites: Application to Europa, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
  • Spin Transition of Iron in δ-(Al,Fe)OOH Induces Thermal Anomalies in Earth's Lower Mantle, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Constraints on the composition and temperature of LLSVPs from seismic properties of lower mantle minerals, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • The tidal-thermal evolution of the Pluto-Charon system, 2022, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Deschamps collaborates frequently with several researchers including Wen-Pin Hsieh, Kenny Vilella, Yi-Chi Tsao, G. Choblet, and Yang Li.

Their work addresses scientific themes such as seismic wave analysis, thermal anomalies within Earth's mantle, tidal heating in icy satellites, and planetary system evolution. These contributions involve quantitative analysis of geological and geophysical processes at high pressure and temperature conditions relevant to Earth's interior and planetary bodies.

Best Publications

  • Probabilistic Tomography Maps Chemical Heterogeneities Throughout the Lower Mantle

    Jeannot Trampert;Frédéric Deschamps;Joseph Resovsky;David A Yuen

  • On the internal structure and dynamics of Titan

    O. Grasset;C. Sotin;F. Deschamps

  • The primitive nature of large low shear-wave velocity provinces

    Frédéric Deschamps;Frédéric Deschamps;Laura Cobden;Paul J. Tackley

  • The influence of MORB and harzburgite composition on thermo-chemical mantle convection in a 3-D spherical shell with self-consistently calculated mineral physics

    Takashi Nakagawa;Paul J. Tackley;Frederic Deschamps;James A.D. Connolly

  • Mantle tomography and its relation to temperature and composition

    Frédéric Deschamps;Jeannot Trampert

  • Thermal convection in the outer shell of large icy satellites

    Frédéric Deschamps;Christophe Sotin

  • Layered azimuthal anisotropy of Rayleigh wave phase velocities in the European Alpine lithosphere inferred from ambient noise

    Bill Fry;Bill Fry;Frédéric Deschamps;Edi Kissling;Laurent Stehly;Laurent Stehly

  • Anomalies of temperature and iron in the uppermost mantle inferred from gravity data and tomographic models

    Frédéric Deschamps;Jeannot Trampert;Roel Snieder

  • A deep mantle origin for the primitive signature of ocean island basalt

    Frédéric Deschamps;Edouard Kaminski;Paul J. Tackley

  • Incorporating self‐consistently calculated mineral physics into thermochemical mantle convection simulations in a 3‐D spherical shell and its influence on seismic anomalies in Earth's mantle

    Takashi Nakagawa;Takashi Nakagawa;Paul J. Tackley;Frederic Deschamps;James A. D. Connolly

  • Searching for models of thermo-chemical convection that explain probabilistic tomography. II—Influence of physical and compositional parameters

    Frédéric Deschamps;Paul J. Tackley

  • Azimuthal anisotropy of Rayleigh-wave phase velocities in the east-central United States

    Frédéric Deschamps;Frédéric Deschamps;Sergei Lebedev;Thomas Meier;Jeannot Trampert

  • Towards a lower mantle reference temperature and composition

    Frédéric Deschamps;Jeannot Trampert

  • Thermal and compositional anomalies beneath the North American continent

    S. Godey;S. Godey;F. Deschamps;J. Trampert;R. Snieder

  • The stability and structure of primordial reservoirs in the lower mantle: insights from models of thermochemical convection in three-dimensional spherical geometry

    Yang Li;Frédéric Deschamps;Paul J. Tackley

  • Searching for models of thermo-chemical convection that explain probabilistic tomography I. Principles and influence of rheological parameters

    Frédéric Deschamps;Paul J. Tackley

  • Effects of iron on the lattice thermal conductivity of Earth's deep mantle and implications for mantle dynamics.

    Wen Pin Hsieh;Frédéric Deschamps;Takuo Okuchi;Jung Fu Lin

  • Reduced lattice thermal conductivity of Fe-bearing bridgmanite in Earth's deep mantle

    Wen Pin Hsieh;Frédéric Deschamps;Takuo Okuchi;Jung Fu Lin

  • Stratified seismic anisotropy reveals past and present deformation beneath the East-central United States

    Frédéric Deschamps;Sergei Lebedev;Sergei Lebedev;Thomas Meier;Jeannot Trampert

  • The relative density to shear velocity scaling in the uppermost mantle

    Frédéric Deschamps;Roel Snieder;Jeannot Trampert

  • The Earth's Heterogeneous Mantle

    Amir Khan;Frederic Deschamps

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeannot Trampert
Jeannot Trampert Utrecht University
Sergei Lebedev
Sergei Lebedev Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies
Amir Khan
Amir Khan ETH Zurich
Lapo Boschi
Lapo Boschi University of Padua
Jung-Fu Lin
Jung-Fu Lin The University of Texas at Austin
Roel Snieder
Roel Snieder Colorado School of Mines

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