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Jeroen Ritsema is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on geophysics.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, their subfields of expertise are:

  • Geophysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering

The key topics of Jeroen Ritsema's work cover:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

The scientist has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications, including:

  • "Heterogeneity of Seismic Wave Velocity in Earth's Mantle" (2020), published in Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • "Subducted oceanic crust as the origin of seismically slow lower-mantle structures" (2020), published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • "The Chicxulub Impact Produced a Powerful Global Tsunami" (2022), published in AGU Advances
  • "Global reference seismological data sets: multimode surface wave dispersion" (2021), published in Geophysical Journal International
  • "Stress Drop Variation of Deep-Focus Earthquakes Based on Empirical Green's Functions" (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters

Frequently collaborating colleagues include:

  • Andreas Fichtner
  • Paula Koelemeijer
  • Meichen Liu
  • Sergei Lebedev
  • Keith Priestley

Jeroen Ritsema's work has often appeared in publication venues such as:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • AGU Advances
  • Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Best Publications

  • S40RTS: A degree-40 shear-velocity model for the mantle from new Rayleigh wave dispersion, teleseismic traveltime and normal-mode splitting function measurements

    J. Ritsema;A. Deuss;H. J. van Heijst;J. H. Woodhouse

  • Complex Shear Wave Velocity Structure Imaged Beneath Africa and Iceland.

    Jeroen Ritsema;Hendrik Jan van Heijst;John H. Woodhouse

  • African hot spot volcanism: small-scale convection in the upper mantle beneath cratons.

    Scott D. King;Jeroen Ritsema

  • The effect of bulk composition and temperature on mantle seismic structure

    Wenbo Xu;Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni;Lars Stixrude;Jeroen Ritsema

  • Constraining mantle density structure using geological evidence of surface uplift rates: The case of the African Superplume

    Michael Gurnis;Jerry X. Mitrovica;Jeroen Ritsema;Hendrik-Jan van Heijst

  • Global transition zone tomography

    Jeroen Ritsema;Hendrik Jan van Heijst;John H. Woodhouse

  • The Spectral-Element Method, Beowulf Computing, and Global Seismology

    Dimitri Komatitsch;Jeroen Ritsema;Jeroen Tromp

  • Reconciling dynamic and seismic models of Earth's lower mantle: The dominant role of thermal heterogeneity

    D. Rhodri Davies;S. Goes;J.H. Davies;B.S.A. Schuberth

  • Seismic Imaging of Structural Heterogeneity in Earth's Mantle: Evidence for Large-Scale Mantle Flow

    Ritsema J;Van Heijst Hj

  • The elusive mantle plume

    Jeroen Ritsema;Richard M. Allen

  • New seismic model of the upper mantle beneath Africa

    Jeroen Ritsema;Hendrik van Heijst

  • Tomographic filtering of high‐resolution mantle circulation models: Can seismic heterogeneity be explained by temperature alone?

    B. S. A. Schuberth;H.-P. Bunge;J. Ritsema

  • 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

  • SP12RTS: a degree-12 model of shear- and compressional-wave velocity for Earth's mantle

    P. Koelemeijer;P. Koelemeijer;J. Ritsema;A. Deuss;H.-J. van Heijst

  • Joint inversion for global isotropic and radially anisotropic mantle structure including crustal thickness perturbations

    Sung Joon Chang;Sung Joon Chang;Ana M.G. Ferreira;Ana M.G. Ferreira;Ana M.G. Ferreira;Jeroen Ritsema;Hendrik J. Van Heijst

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

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

  • Evidence for strong shear velocity reductions and velocity gradients in the lower mantle beneath Africa

    Jeroen Ritsema;Sidao Ni;Donald V. Helmberger;H. Philip Crotwell

  • Density structure of Earth's lowermost mantle from Stoneley mode splitting observations

    Paula Koelemeijer;Arwen Deuss;Jeroen Ritsema

  • Compositional mantle layering revealed by slab stagnation at ~1000-km depth.

    Maxim D. Ballmer;Maxim D. Ballmer;Nicholas C. Schmerr;Takashi Nakagawa;Jeroen Ritsema

  • Synthetic tomography of plume clusters and thermochemical piles

    A.L. Bull;A.K. McNamara;J. Ritsema

Frequent Co-Authors

Saskia Goes
Saskia Goes Imperial College London
Thorne Lay
Thorne Lay University of California, Santa Cruz
Jeannot Trampert
Jeannot Trampert Utrecht University
Allen K. McNamara
Allen K. McNamara Michigan State University
Joel A. Thornton
Joel A. Thornton University of Washington
Peter E. van Keken
Peter E. van Keken Carnegie Institution for Science
Tatiana Ilyina
Tatiana Ilyina Max Planck Society
Meghan F. Cronin
Meghan F. Cronin Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Noah S. Diffenbaugh
Noah S. Diffenbaugh Stanford University

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