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Overview

Tim J. Wright is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering. They have contributed extensively to the fields of geophysics, aerospace engineering, and related subfields including management, monitoring, policy and law, atmospheric science, and mechanics of materials.

Their work covers a wide range of topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) applications and techniques, landslides and related hazards, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake detection and analysis, and cryospheric studies and observations.

Tim J. Wright has published numerous scientific papers, including notable recent works such as:

  • LiCSBAS: An Open-Source InSAR Time Series Analysis Package Integrated with the LiCSAR Automated Sentinel-1 InSAR Processor, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • LiCSAR: An Automatic InSAR Tool for Measuring and Monitoring Tectonic and Volcanic Activity, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • High-Resolution Surface Velocities and Strain for Anatolia From Sentinel-1 InSAR and GNSS Data, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • How satellite InSAR has grown from opportunistic science to routine monitoring over the last decade, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Unexpected large eruptions from buoyant magma bodies within viscoelastic crust, 2020, Nature Communications

The frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated include Andrew Hooper, John R. Elliott, Milan Lazecký, Yasser Maghsoudi, and T. J. Craig. These collaborations have been reflected in the broad scope and depth of their research outputs.

Their publications have appeared in a variety of scientific venues, with multiple contributions to the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Geophysical Research Letters, Nature Communications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Remote Sensing.

Best Publications

  • Toward mapping surface deformation in three dimensions using InSAR

    Tim J. Wright;Barry E. Parsons;Zhong Lu

  • Complex multifault rupture during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand

    Ian J. Hamling;Sigrún Hreinsdóttir;Kate Clark;John Elliott

  • Magma-maintained rift segmentation at continental rupture in the 2005 Afar dyking episode

    Tim J. Wright;Tim J. Wright;Cindy Ebinger;Cindy Ebinger;Juliet Biggs;Atalay Ayele

  • Crustal Deformation in the India‐Eurasia Collision Zone From 25 Years of GPS Measurements

    Gang Zheng;Hua Wang;Hua Wang;Tim J. Wright;Yidong Lou

  • Statistical comparison of InSAR tropospheric correction techniques

    D.P.S. Bekaert;R.J. Walters;T.J. Wright;A.J. Hooper

  • Multi-interferogram method for measuring interseismic deformation: Denali Fault, Alaska

    Juliet Biggs;Tim Wright;Zhong Lu;Barry Parsons

  • Surface displacements and source parameters of the 2003 Bam (Iran) earthquake from Envisat advanced synthetic aperture radar imagery

    Gareth J. Funning;Gareth J. Funning;Barry Parsons;Tim J. Wright;James A. Jackson

  • InSAR observations of low slip rates on the major faults of western Tibet.

    Tim J. Wright;Barry Parsons;Philip C. England;Eric J. Fielding

  • LiCSBAS: An Open-Source InSAR Time Series Analysis Package Integrated with the LiCSAR Automated Sentinel-1 InSAR Processor

    Yu Morishita;Milan Lazecky;Tim J. Wright;Jonathan R. Weiss

  • InSAR slip rate determination on the Altyn Tagh Fault, northern Tibet, in the presence of topographically correlated atmospheric delays

    J.R. Elliott;Juliet Biggs;Juliet Biggs;B. Parsons;T.J. Wright

  • Geophysical constraints on the dynamics of spreading centres from rifting episodes on land

    Tim J. Wright;Freysteinn Sigmundsson;Carolina Pagli;Manahloh Belachew

  • The role of space-based observation in understanding and responding to active tectonics and earthquakes

    J.R. Elliott;J.R. Elliott;R.J. Walters;R.J. Walters;T.J. Wright

  • A spatially variable power law tropospheric correction technique for InSAR data

    D. P. S. Bekaert;D. P. S. Bekaert;A. Hooper;A. Hooper;T. J. Wright

  • The 2003 Bam (Iran) earthquake: Rupture of a blind strike-slip fault

    Morteza Talebian;Eric J. Fielding;Eric J. Fielding;Gareth J. Funning;Manoucher Ghorashi

  • Measurement of interseismic strain accumulation across the North Anatolian Fault by satellite radar interferometry

    Tim Wright;Barry Parsons;Eric Fielding

  • LiCSAR: An Automatic InSAR Tool for Measuring and Monitoring Tectonic and Volcanic Activity

    Milan Lazecký;Karsten Spaans;Pablo J. González;Yasser Maghsoudi

  • Source model for the Mw 6.7, 23 October 2002, Nenana Mountain Earthquake (Alaska) from InSAR

    Tim J. Wright;Zhong Lu;Charles W. Wicks

  • Post-seismic motion following the 1997 Manyi (Tibet) earthquake: InSAR observations and modelling

    Isabelle Ryder;Barry Parsons;Tim J. Wright;Gareth J. Funning

  • Source parameters of the 1 October 1995 Dinar (Turkey) earthquake from SAR interferometry and seismic bodywave modelling

    T.J. Wright;B.E. Parsons;J.A. Jackson;M. Haynes

  • High‐resolution surface velocities and strain for Anatolia from Sentinel‐1 InSAR and GNSS data.

    Jonathan R. Weiss;Jonathan R. Weiss;Richard J. Walters;Yu Morishita;Yu Morishita;Tim J. Wright

  • Displacement field and slip distribution of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake from SAR imagery

    E. Pathier;E. J. Fielding;T. J. Wright;R. Walker

  • Length and Timescales of Rift Faulting and Magma Intrusion: The Afar Rifting Cycle from 2005 to Present

    Cynthia Ebinger;Atalay Ayele;Derek Keir;Julie Rowland

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Hooper
Andrew Hooper University of Leeds
Barry Parsons
Barry Parsons University of Oxford
Derek Keir
Derek Keir University of Florence
Juliet Biggs
Juliet Biggs University of Bristol
Atalay Ayele
Atalay Ayele Addis Ababa University
Eric Calais
Eric Calais École Normale Supérieure
Pablo J. González
Pablo J. González Spanish National Research Council
Cynthia J. Ebinger
Cynthia J. Ebinger Tulane University
Eric J. Fielding
Eric J. Fielding Jet Propulsion Lab
James O.S. Hammond
James O.S. Hammond Birkbeck, University of London

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