Publications
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Highlights
Jiangjun Ran et al., Nature 2024
Thawing of permafrost caused prominent increase in thaw slump numbers and areas.
A rhelogy model constrained by surface velocity can infer ground ice burried in rock glaciers.
AI draws glacial front from remote sensing big data.
A new type of observations can tell elevation changes in permafrost areas over decades and at daily intervals.
The amount of natural mercury stored in permafrost is twice as much as the rest of all soils, atmosphere, ocean combined.
In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
Modern radar remote sensing revived investigations of widespread but forgotten rock glaciers in China.
Wildfires promoted permafrost degradation and ground subsidence, as revealed by InSAR observations from space.
We discovered that the last remaining stable portion of the Greenland ice sheet was stable no more.
Khan et al., Nature Climate Change 2014
List of Publications
Vertical bedrock shifts reveal summer water storage in Greenland ice sheet
Jiangjun Ran, Pavel Ditmar, Michiel van den Broeke, Lin Liu, Roland Klees, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Twila Moon, Jiancheng Li, Michael Bevis, Min Zhong, Xavier Fettweis, Junguo Liu, Brice Noël, C.K. Shum, Jianli Chen, Liming Jiang, Tonie van Dam
Nature (2024)
TPRoGI: a comprehensive rock glacier inventory for the Tibetan Plateau using deep learning
Zhangyu Sun, Yan Hu, Adina Racoviteanu, Lin Liu, Stephan Harrison, Xiaowen Wang, Jiaxin Cai, Xin Guo, Yujun He, Hailun Yuan
Earth System Science Data (2024)
Data
Unraveling the non-linear relationship between seasonal deformation and permafrost active layer thickness
Tian Chang, Yonghong Yi, Huiru Jiang, Rongxing Li, Ping Lu, Lin Liu, Lingxiao Wang, Lin Zhao, Simon Zwieback, Jingyi Zhao
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science (2024)
Elevation-dependent shift of landslide activity in mountain permafrost regions of the Qilian Mountains
Jie Chen, Jing Zhang, Tonghua Wu, Lin Liu, Fanyu Zhang, Junming Hao, Lingcao Huang, Xiaodong Wu, Pengling Wang, Zhuoxuan Xia, Xiaofan Zhu, Peiqing Lou
Advances in Climate Change Research (2024)
Widespread and rapid activities of retrogressive thaw slumps on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau from 2016 to 2022
Zhuoxuan Xia, Lin Liu, Cuicui Mu, Xiaoqing Peng, Zhuoyi Zhao, Lingcao Huang, Jing Luo, Chengyan Fan
Geophysical Research Letters (2024)
Data
Combined use of multi-source satellite imagery and deep learning for automated mapping of glacial lakes in the Bhutan Himalaya
Xingyu Xu, Lin Liu, Lingcao Huang, Yan Hu
Science of Remote Sensing (2024)
Automatic extraction of glacial lakes from Landsat imagery using deep learning across the Third Pole region
Qian Tang, Guoqing Zhang, Tandong Yao, Marc Wieland, Lin Liu, Saurabh Kaushik
Remote Sensing of Environment (2024)
Advances in InSAR analysis of permafrost terrain
Simon Zwieback, Lin Liu, Line Rouyet, Naomi Short, Tazio Strozzi
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes (2024)
GNSS and the Cryosphere
Tonie van Dam, Pippa Whitehouse, Lin Liu
GNSS Monitoring of the Terrestrial Environment (2024)
Remote sensing and modeling of the cryosphere in High Mountain Asia: A multidisciplinary review
Qinghua Ye, Yuzhe Wang, Lin Liu, Linan Guo, Xueqin Zhang, Liyun Dai, Limin Zhai, Yafan Hu, Nauman Ali, Xinhui Ji, Youhua Ran, Yubao Qiu, Lijuan Shi, Tao Che, Ninglian Wang, Xin Li, Liping Zhu
Remote Sensing (2024)
Contrasting lake changes in Tibet revealed by recent multi-modal satellite observations
Jiangjun Ran, Lin Liu, Guoqing Zhang, C.K. Shum, Jiahui Qiu, Ruigang Hu, Jianping Li, Junhuan Peng, Cheinway Hwang, Yi Luan, Yue Sun, Min Xu, Dingmei Chen, Jun Ding, Yulong Zhong
Science of The Total Environment (2024)
Data
Mapping and characterizing rock glaciers in the arid Western Kunlun Mountains supported by InSAR and deep learning
Yan Hu, Lin Liu, Lingcao Huang, Lin Zhao, Tonghua Wu, Xiaowen Wang, Jiaxin Cai
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (2023)
Data
Code “Landuse_DL v1.0” (Written and maintained by Lingcao Huang and Yan Hu)
Modelling rock glacier ice content based on InSAR-derived velocity, Khumbu and Lhotse valleys, Nepal
Yan Hu, Stephan Harrison, Lin Liu, Joanne Wood
The Cryosphere (2023)
Investigating the seasonal dynamics of surface water over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau using Sentinel-1 imagery and a novel gated multiscale ConvNet
Xin Luo, Zhongwen Hu, Lin Liu
International Journal of Digital Earth (2023)
Data
Code “Tibet-Water-2020” (Written and maintained by Xin Luo)
Automatic detection and classification of land subsidence in deltaic metropolitan areas using distributed scatterer InSAR and Oriented R-CNN
Zherong Wu, Peifeng Ma, Yi Zheng, Feng Gu, Lin Liu, Hui Lin
Remote Sensing of Environment (2023)
Retrogressive thaw slumps along the Qinghai-Tibet Engineering Corridor: a comprehensive inventory and their distribution characteristics
Zhuoxuan Xia, Lingcao Huang, Chengyan Fan, Shichao Jia, Zhanjun Lin, Lin Liu, Jing Luo, Fujun Niu, Tingjun Zhang
Earth System Science Data (2022)
Data
Increased water content in the active layer revealed by regional-scale InSAR and independent component analysis on the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Jie Chen, Tonghua Wu, Lin Liu, Wenyu Gong, Simon Zwieback, Defu Zou, Xiaofan Zhu, Guojie Hu, Erji Du, Xiaodong Wu, Ren Li, Sizhong Yang
Geophysical Research Letters (2022)
Earth observation to investigate occurrence, characteristics and changes of glaciers, glacial lakes and rock glaciers in the Poiqu River Basin (Central Himalaya)
Tobias Bolch, Tandong Yao, Atanu Bhattacharya, Yan Hu, Owen King, Lin Liu, Jan Pronk, Philipp Rastner, Guoqing Zhang
Remote Sensing (2022)
Reconstructing the data gap between GRACE and GRACE follow-on at the basin scale using artificial neural network
Yu Lai, Bao Zhang, Yibin Yao, Lin Liu, Xiao Yan, Yulin He, Shuyuan Ou
Science of The Total Environment (2022)
Magnitudes and patterns of large-scale permafrost ground deformation revealed by Sentinel-1 InSAR on the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Jie Chen, Tonghua Wu, Defu Zou, Lin Liu, Xiaodong Wu, Wenyu Gong, Xiaofan Zhu, Ren Li, Junming Hao, Guojie Hu, Qiangqiang Pang, Jing Zhang, Sizhong Yang
Remote Sensing of Environment (2022)
A review of deep learning for cryospheric studies
Lin Liu
Deep Learning for the Earth Sciences (2021)
Multi-decadal geomorphic changes of a low-angle valley glacier in East Kunlun Mountains: remote sensing observations and detachment hazard assessment
Xiaowen Wang, Lin Liu, Yan Hu, Tonghua Wu, Lin Zhao, Qiao Liu, Rui Zhang, Bo Zhang, Guoxiang Liu
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (2021)
Research Progress of InSAR Technology in Permafrost
Shichao Jia, Tingjun Zhang, Chengyan Fan, Lin Liu, Wanwan Shao
Advances in Earth Science (2021, in Chinese)
Seasonal InSAR displacements documenting the active layer freeze and thaw progression in central–western Spitsbergen, Svalbard
Line Rouyet, Lin Liu, Sarah Strand, Hanne Hvidtfeldt Christiansen, Tom Rune Lauknes, Yngvar Larsen
Remote Sensing (2021)
Automatically quantifying evolution of retrogressive thaw slumps in Beiluhe (Tibetan Plateau) from multi-temporal CubeSat images
Lingcao Huang, Lin Liu, Jing Luo, Zhanju Lin, Fujun Niu
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (2021)
Code “ChangeDet_DL” (Written and maintained by Lingcao Huang)
Analysis and mitigation of biases in Greenland ice sheet mass balance trend estimates from GRACE mascon products
Jiangjun Ran, Pavel Ditmar, Lin Liu, Yun Xiao, Roland Klees, Xueyuan Tang
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (2021)
Comparison of surface subsidence measured by airborne and satellite InSAR over permafrost areas near Yellowknife Canada
Xingyu Xu, Lin Liu, Kevin Schaefer, Roger Michaelides
Earth and Space Science (2021)
Permafrost Dynamics Observatory (PDO) – Part I: Postprocessing and calibration methods of UAVSAR L-band InSAR data for seasonal subsidence estimation
Roger Michaelides, Richard Chen, Yuhuan Zhao, Kevin Schaefer, Andrew Parsekian, Taylor Sullivan, Mahta Moghaddam, Howard Zebker, Lin Liu, Xingyu Xu, Jingyi Chen
Earth and Space Science (2021)
Three in one: GPS-IR measurements of ground surface elevation changes, soil moisture, and snow depth at a permafrost site in the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Jiahua Zhang, Lin Liu, Lei Su, Tao Che
The Cryosphere (2021)
Data
Physics-based evaluation of the maximum magnitude of potential earthquakes induced by the Hutubi (China) underground gas storage
Guoyan Jiang, Lin Liu, Andrew Barbour, Renqi Lu, Hongfeng Yang
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (2021)
Active layer thickness as a function of soil water content
Leah Clayton, Kevin Schaefer, Michael Battaglia, Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Jingyi Chen, Richard Chen, Albert Chen, Kazem Bakian-Dogaheh, Sarah Grelik, Elchin Jafarov, Lin Liu, Roger Michaelides, Mahta Moghaddam, Andrew Parsekian, Adrian Rocha, Sean Schaefer, Taylor Sullivan, Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, Kang Wang, Cathy Wilson, Howard Zebker, Tingjun Zhang, Yuhuan Zhao
Environmental Research Letters (2021)
Interannual ice mass variations over the Antarctic ice sheet from 2003 to 2017 were linked to El Niño-Southern Oscillation
Bao Zhang, Yibin Yao, Lin Liu, Yuanjian Yang
Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2021)
An automated, generalized, deep-learning-based method for delineating the calving fronts of Greenland glaciers from multi-sensor remote sensing imagery
Enze Zhang, Lin Liu, Lingcao Huang, Ka Shing Ng
Remote Sensing of Environment (2021)
Data
Code “Front_DL3” (Written and maintained by Enze Zhang)
Mining noise data for monitoring Arctic permafrost by using GNSS interferometric reflectometry
Jiahua Zhang, Lin Liu
Polar Science (2021)
Data
LaeNet: A novel lightweight multitask CNN for automatically extracting lake area and shoreline from remote sensing images
Wei Liu, Xingyu Chen, Jiangjun Ran, Lin Liu, Qiang Wang, Linyang Xin, Gang Li
Remote Sensing (2021)
Quantification of permafrost creep provides kinematic evidence for classifying a puzzling periglacial landform
Yan Hu, Lin Liu, Lin Zhao, Tonghua Wu, Jialun Cai, Xiaofan Zhu, Junming Hao
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (2021)
Centennial response of Greenland’s three largest outlet glaciers
Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Anders A. Bjørk, Jonathan Bamber, Mathieu Morlighem, Michael Bevis, Kurt Kjær, Jérémie Mouginot, Anja Løkkegaard, David Holland, Andy Aschwanden, Bao Zhang, Veit Helm, Niels Korsgaard, William Colgan, Nicolaj Larsen, Lin Liu, Karina Hansen, Valentina Barletta, Trine Dahl-Jensen, Anne Sofie Søndergaard, Beata Csatho, Ingo Sasgen, Jason Box, Toni Schenk
Nature Communications (2020)
Improving the estimate of the secular variation of Greenland ice mass in the recent decades by incorporating a stochastic process
Bao Zhang, Lin Liu, Yibin Yao, Tonie van Dam, Shfaqat Abbas Khan
Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2020)
Global Positioning System interferometric reflectometry (GPS-IR) measurements of ground surface elevation changes in permafrost areas in northern Canada
Jiahua Zhang, Lin Liu, Yufeng Hu
The Cryosphere (2020)
Data
Using deep learning to map retrogressive thaw slumps in the Beiluhe region (Tibetan Plateau) from CubeSat images
Lingcao Huang, Jing Luo, Zhanju Lin, Fujun Niu, Lin Liu
Remote Sensing of Environment (2020)
Code “Landuse_DL” (Written and maintained by Lingcao Huang)
GPS observed horizontal ground extension at the Hutubi (China) underground gas storage facility and its application to geomechanical modeling for induced seismicity
Guoyan Jiang, Xuejun Qiao, Xiaoqiang Wang, Renqi Lu, Lin Liu, Hongfeng Yang, Yuanda Su, Lili Song, Baoshan Wang, Teng-fong Wong
Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2020)
Automatically delineating the calving front of Jakobshavn Isbræ from multitemporal TerraSAR-X images: a deep learning approach
Enze Zhang, Lin Liu, Lingcao Huang
The Cryosphere (2019)
Data
Geodetic and model data reveal different spatio-temporal patterns of transient mass changes over Greenland from 2007 to 2017
Bao Zhang, Lin Liu, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Tonie van Dam, Anders Anker Bjørk, Yannick Peings, Enze Zhang, Michael Bevis, Yibin Yao, Brice Noël
Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2019)
Detecting soil freeze/thaw onsets in Alaska using SMAP and ASCAT data
Xiyu Chen, Lin Liu, Annett Bartsch
Remote Sensing of Environment (2019)
Synchrotron X-ray imaging in 4D: Multiscale failure and compaction localization in triaxially compressed porous limestone
Lingcao Huang, Patrick Baud, Benoit Cordonnier, François Renard, Lin Liu, Teng-fong Wong
Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2019)
Changes in groundwater level possibly encourage shallow earthquakes in central Australia: The 2016 Petermann Ranges earthquake
Shuai Wang, Wenbin Xu, Caijun Xu, Zhi Yin, Roland Bürgmann, Lin Liu, Guoyan Jiang
Geophysical Research Letters (2019)
Inference of the impact of wildfire on permafrost and active layer thickness in a discontinuous permafrost region using the remotely sensed active layer thickness (ReSALT) algorithm
Roger Michaelides, Kevin Schaefer, Howard Zebker, Andrew Parsekian, Lin Liu, Jingyi Chen, Susan Natali, Sarah Ludwig, Sean Schaefer
Environmental Research Letters (2019)
Automatic mapping of thermokarst landforms from remote sensing images using deep learning: A case study in the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau
Lingcao Huang, Lin Liu, Liming Jiang and Tingjun Zhang
Remote Sensing (2018)
Code “DeeplabforRS” (Written and maintained by Lingcao Huang)
GPS Interferometric Reflectometry reveals cyclic elevation changes in thaw and freezing seasons in a permafrost area (Barrow, Alaska)
Yufeng Hu, Lin Liu, Kristine Larson, Kevin Schaefer, Jiahua Zhang, Yibin Yao
Geophysical Research Letters (2018)
Decadal changes of surface elevation over permafrost area estimated using reflected GPS signals
Lin Liu, Kristine M. Larson
The Cryosphere (2018)
Data
Geodetic measurements reveal short-term changes of glacial mass near Jakobshavn Isbræ (Greenland) from 2007 to 2017
Bao Zhang, Enze Zhang, Lin Liu, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Tonie van Dam, Yibin Yao, Michael Bevis, Veit Helm
Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2018)
Seasonal mass variations show timing and magnitude of meltwater storage in the Greenland Ice Sheet
Jiangjun Ran, Miren Vizcaino, Pavel Ditmar, Michiel van den Broeke, Twila Moon, Christian Steger, Ellyn Enderlin, Bert Wouters, Brice Noël, Catharina Reijmer, Roland Klees, Min Zhong, Lin Liu, Xavier Fettweis
The Cryosphere (2018)
Using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry to map and quantify permafrost thaw subsidence: A case study of Eboling Mountain on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau
Jie Chen, Lin Liu, Tingjun Zhang, Bin Cao, Hui Lin
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (2018)
Sentinel-1 InSAR measurements of elevation changes over yedoma uplands on Sobo-Sise Island, Lena Delta
Jie Chen, Frank Günther, Guido Grosse, Lin Liu, Hui Lin
Remote Sensing (2018)
Permafrost stores a globally significant amount of mercury
Paul Schuster, Kevin Schaefer, George Aiken, Ronald Antweiler, John Dewild, Joshua Gryziec, Alessio Gusmeroli, Gustaf Hugelius, Elchin Jafarov, David Krabbenhoft, Lin Liu, Nicole Herman-Mercer, Cuicui Mu, David Roth, Tim Schaefer, Robert Striegl, Kimberly Wickland, Tingjun Zhang
Geophysical Research Letters (2018)
Surface deformation monitoring in the permafrost regions over Tibetan Plateau using Sentinel-1 data
Zhenming Wu, Lin Zhao, Lin Liu, Rui Zhu, Zeshen Gao, Yongping Qiao, Liming Tian, Huayun Zhou, Meizhen Xie
Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions (2018)
Estimating active layer thickness and volumetric water content from ground penetrating radar measurements in Barrow, Alaska
Elchin Jafarov, Andrew Parsekian, Kevin Schaefer, Lin Liu, Albert Chen, Santosh Panda, Tingjun Zhang
Geoscience Data Journal (2018)
Data
Transient variations in glacial mass near Upernavik Isstrøm (west Greenland) detected by the combined use of GPS and GRACE data
Bao Zhang, Lin Liu, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Tonie van Dam, Enze Zhang, Yibin Yao
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (2017)
Data
Annual variations in GPS-measured vertical displacements near Upernavik Isstrøm (Greenland) and contributions from surface mass loading
Lin Liu, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Tonie van Dam, Joseph Ho Yin Ma, Michael Bevis
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (2017)
Mapping and inventorying active rock glaciers in the northern Tien Shan of China using satellite SAR interferometry
Xiaowen Wang, Lin Liu, Lin Zhao, Tonghua Wu, Zhongqin Li, Guoxiang Liu
The Cryosphere (2017)
Data
Field evidence and InSAR detection of thermokarst after a tundra wildfire, using ALOS-PALSAR
Go Iwahana, Masao Uchida, Lin Liu, Wenyu Gong, Franz Meyer, Richard Guritz, Tsutomu Yamanokuchi, Larry Hinzman
Remote Sensing (2016)
Ground-penetrating radar-derived measurements of active-layer thickness on the landscape scale with sparse calibration at Toolik and Happy Valley, Alaska
Albert Chen, Andrew Parsekian, Kevin Schaefer, Elchin Jafarov, Santosh Panda, Lin Liu, Tingjun Zhang, Howard Zebker
Geophysics (2016)
Data
Remote sensing measurements of thermokarst subsidence Using InSAR
Lin Liu, Kevin Schaefer, Albert Chen, Alessio Gusmeroli, Howard Zebker, Tingjun Zhang
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (2015)
Recent Arctic tundra fire initiates widespread thermokarst development
Benjamin Jones, Guido Grosse, Christopher Arp, Eric Miller, Lin Liu, Daniel Hayes, Christopher Larsen
Scientific Reports (2015)
Remotely Sensed Active Layer Thickness (ReSALT) at Barrow, Alaska using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
Kevin Schaefer, Lin Liu, Andrew Parsekian, Elchin Jafarov, Albert Chen, Tingjun Zhang, Alessio Gusmeroli, Santosh Panda, Howard Zebker, Tim Schaefer
Remote Sensing (2015)
Data
Active layer stratigraphy and organic layer thickness at a thermokarst site in Arctic Alaska identified using Ground Penetrating Radar
Alessio Gusmeroli, Lin Liu, Kevin Schaefer, Tingjun Zhang, Timothy Schaefer, Guido Grosse
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (2015)
InSAR detects increase in surface subsidence caused by an Arctic tundra fire
Lin Liu, Elchin Jafarov, Kevin Schaefer, Benjamin Jones, Howard Zebker, Christopher Williams, John Rogan, Tingjun Zhang
Geophysical Research Letters (2014)
Seasonal thaw settlement at drained thermokarst lake basins, Arctic Alaska
Lin Liu, Kevin Schaefer, Alessio Gusmeroli, Guido Grosse, Benjamin Jones, Tingjun Zhang, Andrew Parsekian, Howard Zebker
The Cryosphere (2014)
Sustained mass loss of the Northeast Greenland ice sheet triggered by regional warming
Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Kurt Kjær, Michael Bevis, Jonathan Bamber, John Wahr, Kristian Kjeldsen, Anders Bjørk, Niels Korsgaard, Leigh Stearns, Michiel van den Broeke, Lin Liu, Nicolaj Larsen, Ioana Muresan
Nature Climate Change (2014)
Carbon and geochemical properties of cryosols on the North Slope of Alaska
Cuicui Mu, Tingjun Zhang, Paul Schuster, Kevin Schaefer, Kimberly Wickland, Deborah Repert, Lin Liu, Tim Schaefer, Guodong Cheng
Cold Regions Science and Technology (2014)
Surface motion of active rock glaciers in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA: inventory and a case study using InSAR
Lin Liu, Constance Millar, Robert Westfall, Howard Zebker
The Cryosphere (2013)
Detecting unfrozen sediments below thermokarst lakes with Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Andrew Parsekian, Guido Grosse, Jan Walbrecker, Mike Müller‐Petke, Kristina Keating, Lin Liu, Benjamin Jones, Rosemary Knight
Geophysical Research Letters (2013)
The use of GPS horizontals for loading studies, with applications to northern California and southeast Greenland
John Wahr, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Tonie van Dam, Lin Liu, Jan van Angelen, Michiel van den Broeke, Charles Meertens
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (2013)
Vertical and horizontal surface displacements near Jakobshavn Isbræ driven by melt-induced and dynamic ice loss
Karina Nielsen, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Giorgio Spada, John Wahr, Michael Bevis, Lin Liu, Tonie van Dam
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (2013)
Constraining ice mass loss from Jakobshavn Isbræ (Greenland) using InSAR-measured crustal uplift
Lin Liu, John Wahr, Ian Howat, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Ian Joughin, Masato Furuya
Geophysical Journal International (2012)
Estimating 1992–2000 average active layer thickness on the Alaskan North Slope from remotely sensed surface subsidence
Lin Liu, Kevin Schaefer, Tingjun Zhang, John Wahr
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (2012)
Data
InSAR measurements of surface deformation over permafrost on the North Slope of Alaska
Lin Liu, Tingjun Zhang, John Wahr
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (2010)
GPS measurements of crustal uplift near Jakobshavn Isbræ due to glacial ice mass loss
Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Lin Liu, John Wahr, Ian Howat, Ian Joughin, Tonie van Dam, Kevin Fleming
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (2010)