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Thóra Árnadóttir

Thóra Árnadóttir

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Earth Science

D-Index
35
Citations
4415
World Ranking
7645
National Ranking
19

Overview

Thóra Árnadóttir is affiliated with the University of Iceland in Iceland and has an extensive research portfolio within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work primarily focuses on areas including Geophysics, Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and Aerospace Engineering.

The scientist's research topics encompass a range of subjects such as earthquake and tectonic studies, methane hydrates and related phenomena, earthquake detection and analysis, geophysics and gravity measurements, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications and techniques, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and cryospheric studies and observations.

They have published in various scientific venues, with a notable presence in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). Other frequent publication venues include Bulletin of Volcanology, Frontiers in Earth Science, and Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth.

Thóra Árnadóttir has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Notable co-authors include Cécile Ducrocq, Vincent Drouin, Halldór Geirsson, Yeşim Çubuk Sabuncu, and Kristín Jónsdóttir.

Their recent scholarly publications illustrate the breadth of their investigative scope:

  • Widespread fracture movements during a volcano-tectonic unrest: the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland, from 2019-2021 TerraSAR-X interferometry (2024), Bulletin of Volcanology
  • Inflation-Deflation Episodes in the Hengill and Hrómundartindur Volcanic Complexes, SW Iceland (2021), Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Temporal Seismic Velocity Changes Associated With the Mw 6.1, May 2008 Ölfus Doublet, South Iceland: A Joint Interpretation From dv/v and GPS (2024), Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Temporal Seismic Velocity Changes Associated with the Mw 6.1, May 2008 Ölfus Doublet, South Iceland: a Joint Interpretation from dv/v and GPS. Cubuk-Sabuncu-etal-Dataset (2024), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Additional material for the article "Widespread fracture movements during a volcano-tectonic unrest: the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland, from 2019-2021 TerraSAR-X interferometry" (2023), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Segmented lateral dyke growth in a rifting event at Bárðarbunga volcanic system, Iceland

    Freysteinn Sigmundsson;Andrew Hooper;Sigrún Hreinsdóttir;Kristín S. Vogfjörd

  • Intrusion triggering of the 2010 Eyjafjallajokull explosive eruption

    Freysteinn Sigmundsson;Sigrún Hreinsdóttir;Andrew Hooper;Thóra Árnadóttir

  • Glacial rebound and plate spreading: Results from the first countrywide GPS observations in Iceland

    Thóra Árnadóttir;Björn Lund;Wei Jiang;Halldor Geirsson

  • The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake imaged from inversion of geodetic data

    Thóra Árnadóttir;Paul Segall

  • Fault slip distribution of two June 2000 M W 6.5 earthquakes in South Iceland estimated from joint inversion of InSAR and GPS measurements

    Rikke Pedersen;Sigurjón Jónsson;Thóra Árnadóttir;Freysteinn Sigmundsson

  • Geodetic GPS measurements in south Iceland: Strain accumulation and partitioning in a propagating ridge system

    P. C. LaFemina;Timothy H. Dixon;R. Malservisi;R. Malservisi;T. Arnadottir

  • Rapid Deformation of the South Flank of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

    Susan Owen;Paul Segall;Jeff Freymueller;Asta Mikijus

  • The 2008 May 29 earthquake doublet in SW Iceland

    J. Decriem;T. Árnadóttir;A. Hooper;H. Geirsson

  • Current plate movements across the Mid-atlantic ridge determined from 5 years of continuous GPS measurements in Iceland

    Halldór Geirsson;Thóra Árnadóttir;Christof Völksen;Weiping Jiang;Weiping Jiang

  • Volcanic plume height correlated with magma-pressure change at Grímsvötn Volcano, Iceland

    Sigrún Hreinsdóttir;Sigrún Hreinsdóttir;Freysteinn Sigmundsson;Matthew J. Roberts;Halldór Björnsson

  • Kinematic models of plate boundary deformation in southwest Iceland derived from GPS observations

    Thóra Árnadóttir;Weiping Jiang;Kurt L. Feigl;Halldór Geirsson

  • Earthquakes, stress, and strain along an obliquely divergent plate boundary: Reykjanes Peninsula, southwest Iceland

    Marie Keiding;Björn Lund;Thóra Árnadóttir

  • Icelandic rhythmics: Annual modulation of land elevation and plate spreading by snow load

    Ronni Grapenthin;Freysteinn Sigmundsson;Halldór Geirsson;Thóra Árnadóttir

  • Crustal deformation of the Marlborough Fault Zone in the South Island of New Zealand: Geodetic constraints over the interval 1982-1994

    S. J. Bourne;T. Árnadóttir;J. Beavan;D. J. Darby

  • Coseismic stress changes and crustal deformation on the Reykjanes Peninsula due to triggered earthquakes on 17 June 2000

    Thóra Árnadóttir;Halldór Geirsson;Páll Einarsson

  • Geodynamics of Iceland and the signatures of plate spreading

    Freysteinn Sigmundsson;Páll Einarsson;Ásta Rut Hjartardóttir;Vincent Drouin

  • Plate boundary deformation and man-made subsidence around geothermal fields on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland

    Marie Keiding;Thóra Árnadóttir;Sigurjon Jonsson;Judicaël Decriem

  • Motion of Kilauea Volcano during sustained eruption from the Puu Oo and Kupaianaha Vents, 1983–1991

    Paul T. Delaney;Asta Miklius;Thora Arnadottir;Arnold T. Okamura

  • Glacio-isostatic deformation around the Vatnajökull ice cap, Iceland, induced by recent climate warming : GPS observations and finite element modeling

    Carolina Pagli;Carolina Pagli;Freysteinn Sigmundsson;Björn Lund;Erik Sturkell

  • Deflation of the Askja volcanic system: Constraints on the deformation source from combined inversion of satellite radar interferograms and GPS measurements

    Carolina Pagli;Freysteinn Sigmundsson;Thóra Árnadóttir;Páll Einarsson

  • Postseismic deformation following the June 2000 earthquake sequence in the south Iceland seismic zone

    Thóra Árnadóttir;Sigurjón Jónsson;Fred F. Pollitz;Weiping Jiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Freysteinn Sigmundsson
Freysteinn Sigmundsson University of Iceland
Páll Einarsson
Páll Einarsson University of Iceland
Erik Sturkell
Erik Sturkell University of Gothenburg
Andrew Hooper
Andrew Hooper University of Leeds
Kurt L. Feigl
Kurt L. Feigl University of Wisconsin–Madison
Richard A. Bennett
Richard A. Bennett University of Arizona
Sigurjón Jónsson
Sigurjón Jónsson King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Magnús T. Gudmundsson
Magnús T. Gudmundsson University of Iceland
Helgi Björnsson
Helgi Björnsson University of Iceland

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