Journal papers

Published:

21. Wang, K., Tong, P., Zhang, Z. and Su, L., 2025. Mapping the crustal magmatic system and regional deformation of the Toba region by multiparameter ambient noise adjoint tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(4), p.e2024JB030550.

20. Liu, T., Du, N., Lei, T., Wang, K., He, B., Tong, P., Grasselli, G. and Liu, Q., 2025. Seismic wavefield injection based on interface discontinuity: Theory and numerical implementation based upon the spectral-element method. Geophysical Journal International, p.ggaf054.

19. Xu, M., Wang, K., Chen, J., He, J., Liu, Q., Liu, Y., Huang, Z. and Tong, P., 2025. Multilevel Mechanisms Driving Intraplate Volcanism in Central Mongolia Revealed by Adjoint Waveform Tomography of Receiver Function and Ambient Noise Data. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 650, p.119137.

18. He, B., Wang, K., Liu, T., Lei, T., Du, N., van der Lee, S., Darbyshire, F.A., Frederiksen, A., Zhu, H., Lumley, D. and Halls, H., 2024. Crustal and uppermost mantle structures of the North American Midcontinent Rift revealed by joint full-waveform inversion of ambient-noise data and teleseismic P waves. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 641, p.118797.

17. Liu, T., Wang, K., Xie, Y., He, B., Lei, T., Du, N., Tong, P., Yang, Y., Rychert, C.A., Harmon, N. and Grasselli, G., 2024. Cube2sph: A toolkit enabling flexible and accurate continental-scale seismic simulations using the SPECFEM3D_Cartesian package. Computers & Geosciences, p.105644.

16. Chen, J., Wu, S., Xu, M., Nagaso, M., Yao, J., Wang, K., Li, T., Bai, Y. and Tong, P., 2023. Adjoint‐State Teleseismic Traveltime Tomography: Method and Application to Thailand in Indochina Peninsula. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(12), p.e2023JB027348.

15. Xu, M., Wang, K., Chen, J., Yu, D. and Tong, P., 2023. Receiver Function Adjoint Tomography for Three‐Dimensional High‐Resolution Seismic Array Imaging: Methodology and Applications in Southeastern Tibet. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(19), p.e2023GL104077.

14. Wang, K., Wu, S., & Tong, P. (2022). Crustal deformation in the Sierra Nevada and Walker Lane region inferred from P-wave azimuthal anisotropy. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2022JB024554, doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024554

13. Wang, K., Wang, Y., Song, X., Tong, P., Liu, Q., Yang Y., 2021. Full-Waveform Inversion of High-frequency Teleseismic Body Waves based on Multiple Plane Wave Incidence: Methods and Practical Applications. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 1–15, doi.org/10.1785/0120210094

12. Zhao, Y., Guo, Z., Wang, K., & Yang, Y. J. (2021). A Large Magma Reservoir beneath the Tengchong Volcano Revealed by Ambient Noise Adjoint Tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2021JB022116. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022116

11. Wang, K., Yang, Y., Jiang, C., Wang, Y., Tong, P., Liu, T., & Liu, Q. (2021). Adjoint tomography of ambient noise data and teleseismic P waves: Methodology And Applications To Central California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2021JB021648. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB021648

10. Wu S.; J. Yao; S. Wei; J. Hubbard; Y. Wang; Y. Htwe; M. Thant; X. Wang; K. Wang; T. Liu; Q. Liu. New insights into the structural heterogeneity and geodynamics of the Indo-Burma subduction zone from ambient noise tomography. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116856

9. Tong P., J. Yao, Q. Liu, T. Li, K. Wang, S. Liu, Y. Cheng, and S. Wu. Crustal rotation and fluids: Factors for the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence? Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090853

8. Wang K.*, C. Jiang*, Y. Yang, V. Schulte-Pelkum, Q. Liu, 2019. Crustal deformation in southern California constrained by radial anisotropy from ambient noise adjoint tomography. Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088580 (pdf, supply)

7. Lin C., V. Monteiller, K. Wang*, T. Liu, P. Tong and Q. Liu, 2019. High-frequency seismic wave modeling of the deep Earth based on hybrid methods and spectral-element simulations: a conceptual study. Geophysical Journal International, doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz413

6. Wang K., Q. Liu, and Y. Yang, 2019. Three-Dimensional Sensitivity Kernels for Multi-component Empirical Green's Functions From Ambient Noise : Methodology and Application to Adjoint Tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth，https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB017020 (pdf, supply)

5. Wang K.*, Y. Yang, P. Basini, P. Tong, C. Tape, and Q. Liu, 2018. Refined crustal and uppermost structure of southern California by ambient noise adjoint tomography. Geophysical Journal International, 215(3), 844-863. (pdf, supplemental_material)

4. Guo Z., K. Wang, Y. Yang, Y. Tang, Y, Chen, and S.-H. Hung, 2018. The origin and mantle dynamics of Quaternary intra-plate volcanism in Northeast China from joint inversion of surface wave and body wave. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014948. (pdf)

3. Wang K., Y. Luo, Y. Yang., 2016. Correction of phase velocity bias caused by strong directional noise sources in high-frequency ambient noise tomography: a case study in Karamay, China. Geophysical Journal International, 205(2), 715-727. (pdf)

2. Luo Y., Y. Yang, Y. Xu, H. Xu, K. Zhao, K. Wang, 2015. On the limitations of interstation distances in ambient noise tomography. Geophysical Journal International, 201(2), 652-661. (pdf)

1. Wang K., Luo Yinhe, Zhao Kaifeng, Zhang Limeng, 2014. Body waves revealed by spatial stacking on long-term cross-correlations of ambient noise, Journal of Earth Science , 25(6): 977-984. (pdf)

Talks  and presentations

2021/4: School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China. "Unveiling fine-scale structures of the Earth’s lithosphere by full wave seismic tomography" (invited)

2021/4: SSA Annual meeting 2021, online. "Full-Waveform Joint Inversion of Ambient Noise Data and Teleseismic P Waves to Image the Subducted Slab Beneath Central California" link

2019/10: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto, Rockfest Seminar. “Full wave ambient noise tomography of the southern California plate boundary region” (invited)

2019/10: Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Brewer-Wilson Seminar. “Unveiling the fine structure of the Earth’s lithosphere by full wave seismic tomography”(invited)

2019/03: Department of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). "Multi-component Full Wave Ambient Noise Tomography: Adjoint Method and Applications in Southern California" (invited)

2018/12: AGU Fall meeting 2018, Washington D.C.. "Crustal Radial Anisotropy of Southern California Revealed by Multi-component Ambient Noise Adjoint Tomography"

2018/11: Division of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences,  Nanyang Technological University. "Multi-component Ambient Noise Adjoint Tomography: Methodology and its Applications in Southern California" (invited)

Conference proceedings and abstracts

2018/12, AGU Fall Meeting, Washington D.C.. Crustal radial anisotropy of Southern California revealed by multi-component ambient noise adjoint tomography. (Oral)

2018/12, AGU Fall Meeting, Washington D.C.. Sensitivity kernels for multi-component ambient noise empirical Green’s functions based on adjoint method. (Poster)

2017/12, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans. Refined crustal and uppermost structure of southern California by ambient noise adjoint tomography. (poster)

2016/12, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco. Correction of phase velocity bias caused by strong directional noise sources in high-frequency ambient noise tomography: a case study in Karamay, China. (poster)

2016/10, CGU annual meeting, Beijing. Correction of phase velocity bias caused by strong directional noise sources in high-frequency ambient noise tomography: a case study in Karamay, China. (Oral)

Wang K., Luo Yinhe, Li Hao, 2014. The nature of ambient noise over a field in western Junggar Basin near Karamay, China, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, Near-surface and Geophysics and Environment Protection,92-94 (2014). (pdf)