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48
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11506
World Ranking
3740
National Ranking
246

Overview

Yingjie Yang is affiliated with the Southern University of Science and Technology in China. Their primary field of study is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Geophysics, alongside research contributions in Ocean Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Geology, and Oceanography.

Their work extensively covers topics including:

  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geophysics and Sensor Technology
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies

Yang has published research in several prominent publication venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Tectonophysics
  • Seismological Research Letters
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Recent papers by Yang cover a range of geophysical subjects:

  • Crustal Deformation in Southern California Constrained by Radial Anisotropy From Ambient Noise Adjoint Tomography (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Improving cross-correlations of ambient noise using an rms-ratio selection stacking method (2020, Geophysical Journal International)
  • Thermochemical structure and evolution of cratonic lithosphere in central and southern Africa (2022, Nature Geoscience)
  • Lithosphere-asthenosphere interactions beneath northeast China and the origin of its intraplate volcanism (2021, Geology)
  • Magnetotelluric imaging of a fossil oceanic plate in northwestern Xinjiang, China (2020, Geology)

Yang has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Yinhe Luo
  • Anqi Zhang
  • Juan Carlos Afonso
  • Xiaozhou Yang
  • Kaifeng Zhao

Best Publications

  • Processing seismic ambient noise data to obtain reliable broad-band surface wave dispersion measurements

    G. D. Bensen;M. H. Ritzwoller;M. P. Barmin;A. L. Levshin

  • Ambient noise Rayleigh wave tomography across Europe

    Yingjie Yang;Michael H. Ritzwoller;Anatoli L. Levshin;Nikolai M. Shapiro

  • A synoptic view of the distribution and connectivity of the mid-crustal low velocity zone beneath Tibet

    Yingjie Yang;Michael H. Ritzwoller;Yong Zheng;Weisen Shen

  • Characteristics of ambient seismic noise as a source for surface wave tomography

    Yingjie Yang;Michael H. Ritzwoller

  • Evolution of deformation mechanisms of Ti-22.4Nb-0.73Ta-2Zr-1.34O alloy during straining

    Y. Yang;S.Q. Wu;G.P. Li;Y.L. Li

  • The structure of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath South China from ambient noise and earthquake tomography

    Longquan Zhou;Jiayi Xie;Weisen Shen;Yong Zheng

  • Structure of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the western United States revealed by ambient noise and earthquake tomography

    Yingjie Yang;Michael H. Ritzwoller;F.-C. Lin;M. P. Moschetti

  • Seismic evidence for widespread western-US deep-crustal deformation caused by extension

    M. P. Moschetti;M. H. Ritzwoller;F. Lin;Y. Yang

  • Surface wave tomography of China from ambient seismic noise correlation

    Sihua Zheng;Sihua Zheng;Xinlei Sun;Xiaodong Song;Yingjie Yang

  • Crust and uppermost mantle beneath the North China Craton, northeastern China, and the Sea of Japan from ambient noise tomography

    Yong Zheng;Weisen Shen;Longquan Zhou;Yingjie Yang;Yingjie Yang

  • Regional tomographic inversion of the amplitude and phase of Rayleigh waves with 2-D sensitivity kernels

    Yingjie Yang;Donald W. Forsyth

  • Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps of Tibet and the surrounding regions from ambient seismic noise tomography

    Yingjie Yang;Yingjie Yang;Yong Zheng;John Chen;Shiyong Zhou

  • Rayleigh wave phase velocities, small‐scale convection, and azimuthal anisotropy beneath southern California

    Yingjie Yang;Yingjie Yang;Donald W. Forsyth

  • On the limitations of interstation distances in ambient noise tomography

    Yinhe Luo;Yingjie Yang;Yixian Xu;Hongrui Xu

  • 3-D multiobservable probabilistic inversion for the compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere and upper mantle. I: a priori petrological information and geophysical observables

    J. C. Afonso;J. Fullea;J. Fullea;W. L. Griffin;Y. Yang

  • Crustal radial anisotropy across Eastern Tibet and the Western Yangtze Craton

    Jiayi Xie;Michael H. Ritzwoller;Weisen Shen;Yingjie Yang

  • Complex and variable crustal and uppermost mantle seismic anisotropy in the western United States

    Fan Chi Lin;Michael H. Ritzwoller;Yingjie Yang;Morgan P. Moschetti

  • Seismic evidence of on-going sublithosphere upper mantle convection for intra-plate volcanism in Northeast China

    Zhen Guo;Zhen Guo;Y. John Chen;Jieyuan Ning;Yingjie Yang

  • A 3-D shear velocity model of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the United States from ambient seismic noise

    G. D. Bensen;M. H. Ritzwoller;Y. Yang

  • Crustal and uppermost mantle structure in southern Africa revealed from ambient noise and teleseismic tomography

    Yingjie Yang;Aibing Li;Michael H. Ritzwoller

  • Crustal shear wave velocity structure of the western United States inferred from ambient seismic noise and earthquake data

    M. P. Moschetti;M. P. Moschetti;M. H. Ritzwoller;F.-C. Lin;Y. Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael H. Ritzwoller
Michael H. Ritzwoller University of Colorado Boulder
Juan Carlos Afonso
Juan Carlos Afonso University of Twente
Fenglin Niu
Fenglin Niu Rice University
Yong Zheng
Yong Zheng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Alan G. Jones
Alan G. Jones Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies
Yixian Xu
Yixian Xu Zhejiang University
Donald W. Forsyth
Donald W. Forsyth Brown University
Nicholas Rawlinson
Nicholas Rawlinson University of Cambridge
Y. John Chen
Y. John Chen Southern University of Science and Technology
William L. Griffin
William L. Griffin Macquarie University

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