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Overview

Toshiro Tanimoto is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research work concentrates primarily within the broad field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specialization in geophysics and related subfields.

They have published extensively on topics related to seismic waves and analysis, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, and seismology and earthquake studies. Additional focal areas include earthquake and tectonic studies, earthquake detection and analysis, geophysics and sensor technology, as well as underwater acoustics research.

The most frequent venues for Tanimoto's publications include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Several recent papers highlight their contributions to seismic and geophysical research. These include:

  • "COVID-19 Societal Response Captured by Seismic Noise in China and Italy" (2020) published in Seismological Research Letters
  • "ROMY: a multicomponent ring laser for geodesy and geophysics" (2021) published in Geophysical Journal International
  • "Locating the Precise Sources of High-Frequency Microseisms Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing" (2022) published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Estimating Near-Surface Rigidity from Low-Frequency Noise Using Collocated Pressure and Horizontal Seismic Data" (2020) published in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • "Shallow elasticity structure from colocated pressure and seismic stations in the Piñon Flat Observatory and estimation of Vs30" (2020) published in Geophysical Journal International

Tanimoto has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Notable coauthors include:

  • Han Xiao
  • Jiong Wang
  • Z. Eilon
  • Zack Spica

Their scholarly output reflects a strong emphasis on seismic imaging, earthquake detection, and the utilization of sensor technology for geophysical observations. The integration of artificial intelligence techniques also appears among their subfields, suggesting interdisciplinary approaches within their work.

Best Publications

  • Global upper mantle tomography of seismic velocities and anisotropies

    Jean-Paul Montagner;Toshiro Tanimoto

  • High-resolution global upper mantle structure and plate tectonics

    Yu-Shen Zhang;Toshiro Tanimoto

  • Plate tectonics and hotspots: the third dimension.

    Don L. Anderson;Toshiro Tanimoto;Yu-shen Zhang

  • Long-wavelength S-wave velocity structure throughout the mantle

    Toshiro Tanimoto

  • Lateral heterogeneity and azimuthal anisotropy of the upper mantle: Love and Rayleigh waves 100–250 s

    Toshiro Tanimoto;Don L. Anderson

  • Global anisotropy in the upper mantle inferred from the regionalization of phase velocities

    Jean-Paul Montagner;Toshiro Tanimoto

  • Ridges, hotspots and their interaction as observed in seismic velocity maps

    Yu-Shen Zhang;Yu-Shen Zhang;Toshiro Tanimoto

  • Mapping convection in the mantle

    Toshiro Tanimoto;Don L. Anderson

  • Unified Structural Representation of the southern California crust and upper mantle

    John H. Shaw;Andreas Plesch;Carl Tape;Carl Tape;M. Peter Suess

  • A year of microseisms in southern California

    Peter Gerstoft;Toshiro Tanimoto

  • Earth's continuous oscillations observed on seismically quiet days

    Toshiro Tanimoto;Junho Um;Kiwamu Nishida;Naoki Kobayashi

  • Plume heads, continental lithosphere, flood basalts and tomography

    Don L. Anderson;Yu-Shen Zhang;Toshiro Tanimoto

  • The oceanic excitation hypothesis for the continuous oscillations of the Earth

    T. Tanimoto

  • Waveforms of long-period body waves in a slightly aspherical earth model

    Xiang-Dong Li;Toshiro Tanimoto

  • Seasonality in particle motion of microseisms

    T. Tanimoto;S. Ishimaru;C. Alvizuri

  • Global Love wave phase velocity variation and its significance to plate tectonics

    Yu-Shen Zhang;Toshiro Tanimoto

  • Excitation of microseisms

    Toshiro Tanimoto

  • Cause of continuous oscillations of the Earth

    Toshiro Tanimoto;Junho Um

  • The three-dimensional shear wave structure in the mantle by overtone waveform inversion - I. Radial seismogram inversion

    Toshiro Tanimoto

  • Quasi-static displacements due to faulting in a layered half-space with an intervenient viscoelastic layer.

    Mitsuhiro Matsu'ura;Toshiro Tanimoto;Takaya Iwasaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Chen Ji
Chen Ji University of California, Santa Barbara
Heiner Igel
Heiner Igel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Don L. Anderson
Don L. Anderson California Institute of Technology
Peter Gerstoft
Peter Gerstoft University of California, San Diego
Joachim Wassermann
Joachim Wassermann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Bruce A. Bolt
Bruce A. Bolt University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Paul Montagner
Jean-Paul Montagner Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Robert W. Clayton
Robert W. Clayton California Institute of Technology
Jeroen Tromp
Jeroen Tromp Princeton University
Urs Hugentobler
Urs Hugentobler Technical University of Munich

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