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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Lianxing Wen is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on geophysics. Within this field, their work encompasses subfields such as geophysics, geology, artificial intelligence, ocean engineering, and mechanics of materials.

The main topics addressed in Wen's research include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Seismic waves and analysis
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • Seismic imaging and inversion techniques
  • Earthquake detection and analysis
  • Seismology and earthquake studies

The scientist has frequently published in several venues, with the most common outlets being:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Earth and Planetary Physics
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Significant recent papers by Lianxing Wen include:

  • Shallow seismic structure beneath the continental China revealed by P-wave polarization, Rayleigh wave ellipticity and receiver function (2021) published in Geophysical Journal International
  • Crustal thickness and Vp/Vs variation beneath continental China revealed by receiver function analysis (2021) published in Geophysical Journal International
  • Maximum covariance direction method for unconventional seismic sources (2021) published in Geophysical Journal International
  • CSRM-1.0: A China Seismological Reference Model (2024) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Comment on "Origin of temporal changes of inner-core seismic waves" by Yang and Song (2020) (2020) published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Lianxing Wen has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Weilai Wang
  • Xiao Xiao
  • Li Sun
  • Shihua Cheng
  • Jian Wu

In 2003, Wen was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Best Publications

  • Ultra-Low velocity zones near the core-mantle boundary from broadband PKP precursors

    Lianxing Wen;Donald V. Helmberger

  • Hemispherical variations in seismic velocity at the top of the Earth's inner core

    Fenglin Niu;Lianxing Wen

  • Seismic evidence that the source of the Iceland hotspot lies at the core–mantle boundary

    D. V. Helmberger;L. Wen;X. Ding

  • The global seismographic network surpasses its design goal

    Rhett Butler;Thome Lay;Ken Creager;Paul Earl

  • Seismic evidence for a thermo-chemical boundary at the base of the Earth’s mantle

    Lianxing Wen;Paul Silver;David James;Randy Kuehnel

  • An effective method for small event detection: match and locate (M&L)

    Miao Zhang;Lianxing Wen;Lianxing Wen

  • Mapping the geometry and geographic distribution of a very low velocity province at the base of the Earth's mantle

    Yi Wang;Lianxing Wen

  • A two-dimensional P-SV hybrid method and its application to modeling localized structures near the core-mantle boundary

    Lianxing Wen;Donald V. Helmberger

  • Geometry and P and S velocity structure of the “African Anomaly”

    Yi Wang;Yi Wang;Lianxing Wen

  • Seismic evidence for a rapidly varying compositional anomaly at the base of the Earth’s mantle beneath the Indian Ocean

    Lianxing Wen

  • Layered mantle convection: A model for geoid and topography

    Lianxing Wen;Don L. Anderson

  • A wave equation migration method for receiver function imaging: 1. Theory

    Ling Chen;Lianxing Wen;Tianyu Zheng

  • Structural features and shear-velocity structure of the “Pacific Anomaly”

    Yumei He;Yumei He;Lianxing Wen

  • High‐precision location and yield of North Korea's 2013 nuclear test

    Miao Zhang;Lianxing Wen;Lianxing Wen

  • The fate of slabs inferred from seismic tomography and 130 million years of subduction

    Lianxing Wen;Don L. Anderson

  • Localized Temporal Change of the Earth's Inner Core Boundary

    Lianxing Wen

  • Seismic velocity and attenuation structures in the top of the Earth's inner core

    Lianxing Wen;Fenglin Niu

  • Geographic boundary of the “Pacific Anomaly” and its geometry and transitional structure in the north

    Yumei He;Lianxing Wen;Lianxing Wen

  • The dynamics of western North America: stress magnitudes and the relative role of gravitational potential energy, plate interaction at the boundary and basal tractions

    Lucy M. Flesch;Lucy M. Flesch;William E. Holt;A. John Haines;Lianxing Wen

  • InSAR analysis of surface deformation over permafrost to estimate active layer thickness based on one-dimensional heat transfer model of soils.

    Zhiwei Li;Rong Zhao;Jun Hu;Lianxing Wen

  • Intense seismic scattering near the Earth's core-mantle boundary beneath the Comoros hotspot

    Lianxing Wen

Frequent Co-Authors

Fenglin Niu
Fenglin Niu Rice University
William E. Holt
William E. Holt Stony Brook University
Donald J. Weidner
Donald J. Weidner Stony Brook University
Donald V. Helmberger
Donald V. Helmberger California Institute of Technology
Don L. Anderson
Don L. Anderson California Institute of Technology
Sidao Ni
Sidao Ni Chinese Academy of Sciences
Paul G. Silver
Paul G. Silver Carnegie Institution for Science
Jeroen Ritsema
Jeroen Ritsema University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stephen S. Gao
Stephen S. Gao Missouri University of Science and Technology
Gabi Laske
Gabi Laske University of California, San Diego

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