Hrvoje Tkalčić
Australian-Croatian geophysicist
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Hrvoje Tkalčić's Degrees
- Masters Geophysics University of Zagreb
- Bachelors Geophysics University of Zagreb
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hrvoje Tkalčić is Australian and Croatian scientist and Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra. Biography Hrvoje Tkalčić studied physics and geophysics at the University of Zagreb , from which he gained a Diploma of Engineering in Physics degree in 1996. He continued his postgraduate study at the University of California at Berkeley in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, and defended a PhD thesis entitled "Study of deep Earth structure using seismic body waves" in 2001. He was employed as a research assistant at the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory , as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics of the University of California San Diego , and as a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California . In 2006, he began a continuing position as Scientist in the Seismology group at Multimax, Inc., in Emeryville, California. From 01/2007 until 04/2013, he was a Fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences of the Australian National University , Canberra, Australia. From 04/13 until 12/18, he was a Senior Fellow and associate professor in Seismology and Mathematical Geophysics at RSES, ANU. He has been Head of Seismology and Mathematical Geophysics since 01/17 and Professor since 01/19.
Hrvoje Tkalčić's Published Works
Published Works
- Transdimensional inversion of receiver functions and surface wave dispersion (2012) (329)
- Transdimensional inference in the geosciences (2013) (126)
- Crustal structure beneath China from receiver function analysis (2010) (111)
- Benford's law in the natural sciences (2010) (105)
- A multistep approach for joint modeling of surface wave dispersion and teleseismic receiver functions: Implications for lithospheric structure of the Arabian Peninsula (2006) (97)
- High‐frequency ambient noise tomography of southeast Australia: New constraints on Tasmania's tectonic past (2011) (74)
- The effect of D″ on PKP(AB−DF) travel time residuals and possible implications for inner core structure (2000) (74)
- The shuffling rotation of the Earth’s inner core revealed by earthquake doublets (2013) (74)
- Constraints on D″ structure using PKP(AB–DF), PKP(BC–DF) and PcP–P traveltime data from broad-band records (2002) (68)
- On the feasibility and use of teleseismic P wave coda autocorrelation for mapping shallow seismic discontinuities (2017) (55)
- Crustal and uppermost mantle structure variation beneath La Réunion hotspot track (2015) (54)
- On the inner—outer core density contrast from PKiKP/PcP amplitude ratios and uncertainties caused by seismic noise (2009) (51)
- PKP(BC‐DF) Travel time residuals and short scale heterogeneity in the deep Earth (1999) (51)
- Complex inner core of the Earth: The last frontier of global seismology (2015) (47)
- Shear properties of Earth’s inner core constrained by a detection of J waves in global correlation wavefield (2018) (45)
- Multistep modelling of teleseismic receiver functions combined with constraints from seismic tomography: Crustal structure beneath southeast China (2011) (45)
- Centroid moment tensor catalogue using a 3‐D continental scale Earth model: Application to earthquakes in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands (2017) (44)
- Large variations in travel times of mantle‐sensitive seismic waves from the South Sandwich Islands: Is the Earth's inner core a conglomerate of anisotropic domains? (2010) (42)
- A new global PKP data set to study Earth's core and deep mantle (2006) (42)
- Point source moment tensor inversion through a Bayesian hierarchical model (2016) (41)
- Earth's Correlation Wavefield: Late Coda Correlation (2018) (41)
- Seismic moment tensor inversion using a 3-D structural model: applications for the Australian region (2011) (40)
- Metapyroxenite in the mantle transition zone revealed from majorite inclusions in diamonds (2013) (38)
- Short scale heterogeneity in the lowermost mantle: insights from PcP-P and ScS-S data (2002) (38)
- The puzzle of the 1996 Bardarbunga, Iceland, Earthquake: No volumetric component in the source mechanism (2009) (36)
- Dominant seismic noise sources in the Southern Ocean and West Pacific, 2000–2012, recorded at the Warramunga Seismic Array, Australia (2014) (35)
- Insights into the kinematics of a volcanic caldera drop: Probabilistic finite-source inversion of the 1996 Bárdarbunga, Iceland, earthquake (2010) (35)
- Global P wave tomography of Earth's lowermost mantle from partition modeling (2013) (34)
- Crustal and uppermost mantle structure beneath the External Dinarides, Croatia, determined from teleseismic receiver functions (2011) (34)
- The frequency dependence and locations of short‐period microseisms generated in the Southern Ocean and West Pacific (2015) (34)
- On the origin of complexity in PKP travel time data (2013) (32)
- Point‐Source Inversion of Small and Moderate Earthquakes From P‐wave Polarities and P/S Amplitude Ratios Within a Hierarchical Bayesian Framework: Implications for the Geysers Earthquakes (2020) (32)
- Seismic constraints on magma evolution beneath Mount Baekdu (Changbai) volcano from transdimensional Bayesian inversion of ambient noise data (2017) (31)
- Core structure re-examined using new teleseismic data recorded in Antarctica: evidence for, at most, weak cylindrical seismic anisotropy in the inner core (2009) (30)
- Seismic structure of the crust and uppermost mantle of the Capricorn and Paterson Orogens and adjacent cratons, Western Australia, from passive seismic transects (2012) (29)
- Structure of the Tasmanian lithosphere from 3D seismic tomography (2010) (28)
- Strong, Multi-Scale Heterogeneity in Earth’s Lowermost Mantle (2014) (28)
- Benford's Law of First Digits: From mathematical Curiosity to Change Detector (2011) (27)
- Seismic structure of Kuwait (2007) (26)
- Steep reflections from the earth's core reveal small-scale heterogeneity in the upper mantle (2010) (25)
- Intraplate volcanism controlled by back‐arc and continental structures in NE Asia inferred from transdimensional Bayesian ambient noise tomography (2016) (25)
- Receiver functions from seismic interferometry: a practical guide (2019) (24)
- Core structure and heterogeneity: a seismological perspective (2008) (24)
- Dynamic Earth: crustal and mantle heterogeneity (2008) (23)
- Bayesian inference for ultralow velocity zones in the Earth's lowermost mantle: Complex ULVZ beneath the east of the Philippines (2014) (22)
- Very- and ultra-long-period seismic signals prior to and during caldera formation on La Réunion Island (2019) (22)
- Observation of near‐podal P′P′ precursors: Evidence for back scattering from the 150–220 km zone in the Earth's upper mantle (2006) (22)
- Near‐source velocity structure and isotropic moment tensors: A case study of the Long Valley Caldera (2001) (22)
- Regionally heterogeneous uppermost inner core observed with Hi‐net array (2014) (20)
- Multistep modelling of receiver‐based seismic and ambient noise data from WOMBAT array: crustal structure beneath southeast Australia (2012) (20)
- Antarctic Ice Properties Revealed From Teleseismic P Wave Coda Autocorrelation (2018) (20)
- Candy Wrapper for the Earth's Inner Core (2013) (19)
- The Earth's Inner Core: Revealed by Observational Seismology (2017) (18)
- Site Response in Las Vegas Valley, Nevada from NTS Explosions and Earthquake Data (2006) (18)
- Highly efficient Bayesian joint inversion for receiver-based data and its application to lithospheric structure beneath the southern Korean Peninsula (2016) (18)
- Resolvability of the Centroid‐Moment‐Tensors for Shallow Seismic Sources and Improvements From Modeling High‐Frequency Waveforms (2020) (18)
- The Earth's coda correlation wavefield: Rise of the new paradigm and recent advances (2020) (17)
- Attenuation tomography of the upper inner core (2017) (17)
- Imaging crustal structure variation across southeastern Australia (2013) (17)
- Ultra-low velocity zones beneath the Philippine and Tasman Seas revealed by a trans-dimensional Bayesian waveform inversion (2015) (16)
- Crustal Thickness Beneath the Dinarides and Surrounding Areas From Receiver Functions (2020) (16)
- Nature of the crust beneath the islands of the Mozambique Channel: Constraints from receiver functions (2021) (15)
- Seismic Event Coda‐Correlation: Toward Global Coda‐Correlation Tomography (2020) (15)
- CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF NORTH IRAQ FROM RECEIVER FUNCTION ANALYSES (2008) (14)
- Earth's deepest earthquake swarms track fluid ascent beneath nascent arc volcanoes (2019) (12)
- Complex inner core boundary from frequency characteristics of the reflection coefficients of PKiKP waves observed by Hi-net (2015) (12)
- Probabilistic lowermost mantle P-wave tomography from hierarchical Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and model parametrization cross-validation (2020) (11)
- The 20 May 2016 Petermann Ranges earthquake: centroid location, magnitude and focal mechanism from full waveform modelling (2018) (11)
- Crustal structure of a Proterozoic craton boundary: East Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia, imaged with passive seismic and gravity anomaly data (2017) (11)
- Repetitive marsquakes in Martian upper mantle (2022) (10)
- Evidence for the Innermost Inner Core: Robust Parameter Search for Radially Varying Anisotropy Using the Neighborhood Algorithm (2020) (10)
- Seismic event coda-correlation's formation: implications for global seismology (2020) (9)
- On the Use of Data Noise as a Site‐Specific Weight Parameter in a Hierarchical Bayesian Moment Tensor Inversion: The Case Study of The Geysers and Long Valley Caldera Earthquakes (2017) (9)
- Crustal complexity in the Lachlan Orogen revealed from teleseismic receiver functions (2013) (8)
- New constraints on the current stress field and seismic velocity structure of the eastern Yilgarn Craton from mechanisms of local earthquakes (2015) (8)
- Transdimensional Bayesian Attenuation Tomography of the Upper Inner Core (2019) (8)
- Excitation of the global correlation wavefield by large earthquakes (2020) (7)
- A method of spherical harmonic analysis in the geosciences via hierarchical Bayesian inference (2015) (7)
- Teleseismic Travel-Time Delays in the Las Vegas Basin (2008) (7)
- Estimation of splitting functions from Earth's normal mode spectra using the neighbourhood algorithm (2016) (7)
- The Mantle Transition Zone in Fennoscandia: Enigmatic High Topography Without Deep Mantle Thermal Anomaly (2019) (6)
- Internal structure of ultralow-velocity zones consistent with origin from a basal magma ocean (2021) (6)
- Lineaments and earthquake ruptures on the East Japan megathrust (2018) (6)
- Probabilistic joint inversion of lowermost mantle P-wave velocities and core mantle boundary topography using differential travel times and hierarchical Hamiltonian Monte-Carlo sampling (2015) (6)
- Large Isotropic Component in the Source Mechanism of the 2013 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Nuclear Test Revealed via a Hierarchical Bayesian Inversion (2020) (6)
- On the nature of the P-wave velocity gradient in the inner core beneath Central America (2013) (5)
- Testing the limits of virtual deep seismic sounding via new crustal thickness estimates of the Australian continent (2019) (5)
- Crustal surface wave velocity structure of the east Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia, from ambient noise recordings (2017) (4)
- Exploiting seismic signal and noise in an intracratonic environment to constrain crustal structure and source parameters of infrequent earthquakes (2012) (4)
- CCREM: New Reference Earth Model From the Global Coda‐Correlation Wavefield (2021) (4)
- Structure of the Deep Inner Core From Antipodal PKPPKP Waves (2004) (4)
- Shear‐Wave Anisotropy in the Earth's Inner Core (2021) (4)
- Polymorphic Nature of Iron and Degree of Lattice Preferred Orientation Beneath the Earth's Inner Core Boundary (2018) (3)
- The Variability and Interpretation of Earthquake Source Mechanisms in The Geysers Geothermal Field From a Bayesian Standpoint Based on the Choice of a Noise Model (2018) (3)
- On The Efficiency of P‐Wave Coda Autocorrelation in Recovering Crustal Structure: Examples From Dense Arrays in the Eastern United States (2020) (3)
- Seismic moment tensors from synthetic rotational and translational ground motion: Green’s functions in 1-D versus 3-D (2020) (3)
- Seismic Wave Amplification in Las Vegas: Site Response and Empirical Estimates of Ground Motion (2004) (3)
- Simultaneous use of multiple seismic arrays (2017) (3)
- Skewed orientation groups in scatter plots of earthquake fault plane solutions: Implications for extensional geometry at oceanic spreading centers (2014) (3)
- Small-scale heterogeneity in the lowermost mantle beneath Alaska and northern Pacific revealed from shear-wave triplications (2021) (3)
- Kinematic Modeling and Complete Moment Tensor Analysis of the Anomalous, Vertical CLVD Bardarbunga, Iceland, Event (2005) (3)
- AusArray: quality passive seismic data to underpin updatable national velocity models of the lithosphere (2020) (2)
- Generic Self-Management Model for Wireless Network Management (2013) (2)
- The Las Vegas Valley Seismic Response Project: Ground Motions in Las Vegas Valley from Nuclear Explosions at the Nevada Test Site (2005) (2)
- Study of deep Earth structure using body waves (2001) (2)
- Shear Properties of Earth's Inner Core (2021) (2)
- Seismic Wave Amplification in Las Vegas: Site Characterization Measurements and Response Models (2004) (2)
- Scanning for planetary cores with single-receiver intersource correlations (2022) (2)
- Imaging the lithospheric structure and plumbing system below the Mayotte volcanic zone (2022) (2)
- Initial Results From the Las Vegas Valley Broadband Array Based on Differential Travel Time Residuals and Interstation Phase Velocities (2003) (2)
- Simulations of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (2005) (2)
- A New Probe Into the Innermost Inner Core Anisotropy via the Global Coda‐Correlation Wavefield (2022) (2)
- An Evaluation of Regionalized Models for Eurasia (2002) (1)
- A new probe of the inner core boundary: Frequency dependent amplitude ratio of PKiKP/PcP observed at the Hinet array (2012) (1)
- Shear Velocity Structure Beneath the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada From Regional and Teleseismic Events (2004) (1)
- The Earth's Inner Core: a Black Box (2016) (1)
- Lowermost mantle shear-velocity structure from hierarchical trans-dimensional Bayesian tomography (2021) (1)
- Structure of the Lithosphere Beneath Macedonia From Teleseismic Receiver Functions (2009) (1)
- Opening of the north-eastern Atlantic and onshore mountain rise controlled by Fennoscandian deep structure (2021) (1)
- Efficiency of Decentralized Self-Managing System for IEEE 802.11 WLANs (2006) (1)
- Structure of the Lithosphere Beneath Croatia Determined from Broadband Radial Receiver Functions (2009) (1)
- Inner Core Surface and Its Interior (2017) (1)
- Comprehensive Receiver Function Analyses For Southeastern China (2006) (1)
- Topography and Thickness of the Mantle Transition Zone Beneath Scandinavia (2018) (1)
- Transdimensional Bayesian Inversion (2017) (0)
- Centroid Moment Tensor Inversion in a 3D heterogeneous Earth: Application to the Australasian region (2015) (0)
- Caldera Formation at the Piton de la Fournaise Volcano, La Réunion (2016) (0)
- Crustal Structure of the Northern Zagros Zone from Seismic Observations (2008) (0)
- On the Heterogeneity of the Lowermost Mantle from PcP-P and ScS-S Differential Travel Times (2011) (0)
- Attenuation Tomography of the Inner Core (2014) (0)
- Lithospheric architecture of NE China from joint Inversions of receiver functions and surface wave dispersion through Bayesian optimisation (2017) (0)
- Transmission/Reflection Coefficients for the Flat Inner Core Boundary (2017) (0)
- Improved P-wave Tomography of the Lowermost Mantle and Consequences for Mantle and Core Dynamics (2014) (0)
- Repetitive marsquakes in Martian upper mantle (2022) (0)
- Crustal and uppermost mantle structure of the eastern margin of the Yilgarn Craton (Australia) from passive seismic data (2016) (0)
- Long‐Wavelength Topography and Multiscale Velocity Heterogeneity at the Core‐Mantle Boundary (2022) (0)
- Detection of Multiply Reflected Core Phases at Broadband and Short Period Arrays in Australia (2008) (0)
- Sustav upravljanja bežičnim lokalnim mrežama (2004) (0)
- Three component microseism analysis in Australia from deconvolution enhanced beamforming (2016) (0)
- Understanding Ground Motion in Las Vegas: Insights from Data Analysis and Two-Dimensional Modeling (2004) (0)
- Lithospheric Structure Beneath Coastal and Continental Croatia Determined from Broadband Teleseismic Waveform Modeling (2008) (0)
- AusArray: Toward updatable, high-resolution seismic velocity models of the Australian lithosphere (2019) (0)
- Shear-wave Anisotropy in the Earth’s Inner Core (2021) (0)
- Properies of the microseism wave field in Australia from three component array data (2016) (0)
- Frequency Dependence of Short Period Seismic Noise from Two Decades of Observations at Warramunga Seismic Array (WRA), Australia (2014) (0)
- A new receiver-based passive-seismology technique to image sedimentary basins (2019) (0)
- Data Collection in the Arabian Peninsula for Nuclear Explosion Monitoring (2003) (0)
- Insights on Inner-Core Anisotropy Obtained from the Earth's Correlation Wavefield (2019) (0)
- Inner Core Anisotropy (2017) (0)
- Seismic point and kinematic source solutions from rotational ground motion (2019) (0)
- Geophysical Model Research and Results (2004) (0)
- Up-to-fivefold reverberating waves through the Earth’s center and distinctly anisotropic innermost inner core (2023) (0)
- Complex inner core of the Earth constrained by differential travel times and differential ray parameters (2017) (0)
- Spherical Harmonic Analysis via Bayesian Inference (2014) (0)
- The Earth’s Correlation Wavefield: Proof of Concept, Origin and Applications (2020) (0)
- Rigorous Approach in Investigation of Seismic Structure and Source Characteristicsin Northeast Asia: Hierarchical and Trans-dimensional Bayesian Inversion (2015) (0)
- Ensemble approaches to structural seismology: seek many rather than one (2011) (0)
- Deploying a Submarine Seismic Observatory in the Furious Fifties (2021) (0)
- A New Non-linear Technique for Measurement of Splitting Functions of Normal Modes of the Earth (2014) (0)
- Transdimensional Bayesian tomography of the lowermost mantle from shear waves (2017) (0)
- Multi-array Probing of the Earth's Interior I Posters (2014) (0)
- The Limitations, the Obstacles, and theWay Forward (2017) (0)
- Young etal JGR2013 (2014) (0)
- Evidence for back scattering of near-podal seismic P'P' waves from the 150-220 km zone in Earth's upper mantle (2005) (0)
- Structure of the southeast Australian lithosphere from a transportable seismic array experiment (2010) (0)
- BayesMT: Bayesian inference for the seismic moment tensor using regional and teleseismic-P waveforms with first-motion data and a calibrated prior distribution of velocity models (2015) (0)
- A Seismological Portrait of the Anomalous 1996 Bardarbunga Volcano, Iceland, Earthquake (Invited) (2009) (0)
- Contending non-double-couple source components with hierarchical Bayesian moment tensor inversion (2015) (0)
- The deep roots of the San Andreas Fault zone (2018) (0)
- Crustal and lithospheric structure of the Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia, from passive-source seismology (2014) (0)
- Fluid pathway evolution within intrusion-related hydrothermal systems (2011) (0)
- Effect of upper mantle inhomogeneities on the amplitudes of body waves: consequences for the interpretation of deep earth structure (2009) (0)
- Ductile Faults Control Seismogenic Movement on Oceanic Transforms (2014) (0)
- Toward Improving Point‐Source Moment‐Tensor Inference by Incorporating 1D Earth Model's Uncertainty: Implications for the Long Valley Caldera Earthquakes (2021) (0)
- Annual Report for LDRD-04-FS-019 The Innermost Inner Core: Fact or Artifact? (2004) (0)
- Geodynamics of the Earth's Inner Core From Seismology (2013) (0)
- The LPO Iron Pattern beneath the Earth’s Inner Core Boundary (2015) (0)
- Inner Core Rotational Dynamics (2017) (0)
- Mapping crustal structure variation beneath the Piton de la Fournaise volcano (2012) (0)
- Is the Earths inner core a conglomerate of anisotropic domains (2010) (0)
- Bayesian Inversion for Ultra Low Velocity Zone parameters in the Earth's Lowermost Mantle: Multiple-Layered Structure Confirmed Beneath the East of the Philippines (2014) (0)
- Anisotropic Earth's Inner Core within a Dynamic Core Scenario (2011) (0)
- eismic structure of the crust and uppermost mantle of the Capricorn and aterson Orogens and adjacent cratons , Western Australia , from passive eismic transects (2011) (0)
- Towards Late-Coda Correlation Tomography (2019) (0)
- New Insights into ULVZs Using a Bayesian Inference: A Case Study for ULVZs Beneath the East of Australia (2014) (0)
- Geophysical Model Applications for Monitoring (2005) (0)
- InSight seismic waveform data reveal more marsquakes (2023) (0)
- Constraining Floating Ice Shelf Structures by Spectral Response of Teleseismic P‐Wave Coda: Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica (2021) (0)
- Very- and ultra-long-period seismic signals prior to and during caldera formation on La Réunion Island (2019) (0)
- FY05 LDRD Final ReportThe Innermost Inner Core: Fact or Artifact?LDRD Project Tracking Code 04-FS-019 (2006) (0)
- Bayesian Inversion of Receiver Functions and Surface Wave Dispersion Data in the Brazilian Northeast (2017) (0)
- Modification of continental margin lithosphere by slab subduction beneath northeast Asia (2017) (0)
- New crustal thickness estimates of the Australian Continent using virtual deep seismic soundings (2015) (0)
- Regional mapping of ultra-low velocity zones beneath the Coral Sea using Bayesian inference (2015) (0)
- The PKP travel time anomaly of the South Sandwich Island earthquakes in the context of inner core anisotropy (2015) (0)
- Seismic Imaging Results From a Decade of Rolling Array Deployments in Southeast Australia (2009) (0)
- Lowermost Mantle Shear‐Velocity Structure From Hierarchical Trans‐Dimensional Bayesian Tomography (2021) (0)
- Multi-scale surface wave analysis for the crustal and uppermantle structure beneath the southern Korean Peninsula (2014) (0)
- Seismological Tools to Study the Inner Core (2017) (0)
- Observations of Shuffling Rotation of the Earth's Inner Core and its Time Correlation With Geomagnetic Jerks (2012) (0)
- A Perspective on Past, Present and Future Seismological Research on the Earth's Inner Core (2019) (0)
- Short-scale Heterogeneity in the Lowermost Mantle Revealed Through Partition Modeling of Seismic Body Waves (2012) (0)
- The Origin of the Earth's Correlation Wavefield (2019) (0)
- Detailed Seismic Imaging of the Australian Lithosphere Using a Dense Rolling Array of Seismometers (2007) (0)
- Complex Inner Core of the Earth (2015) (0)
- On the History of Inner Core Discovery (2017) (0)
- in diamonds Metapyroxenite in the mantle transition zone revealed from majorite inclusions (2013) (0)
- P-Wave Velocity in a Transversely Isotropic Inner Core (2017) (0)
- Trans-dimensional and hierarchical Bayesian approaches toward rigorous estimation of seismic sources and structures in the Northeast Asia (2016) (0)
- Hierarchical Bayesian Inversion for the Centroid Moment Tensor (2014) (0)
- Source Mechanisms of Earthquakes at the Geysers Geothermal Region Using a Hierarchical Bayesian Approach (2015) (0)
- Surface Wave Dispersion from Recent Australian Earthquakes (2012) (0)
- FY05 LDRD Final Report The Innermost Inner Core: Fact or Artifact? (2006) (0)
- Evolution of deep crustal magma structures beneath Mount Baekdu volcano (MBV) intraplate volcano in northeast Asia (2017) (0)
- Bayesian Joint Inversion Implies a Complex Multiscale Lowermost Mantle Overlaying Simple Core-Mantle Boundary Topography (2021) (0)
- CCMOC: A new view of the Earth's outer core through the global coda correlation wavefield (2022) (0)
- The Angle Between PKIKP Waves and the Rotation Axis of the Earth (2017) (0)
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