Recent Papers

1. Low-frequency seismic noise characteristics from the analysis of co-located seismic and pressure data,
   Toshiro Tanimoto and Jiong Wang,
   Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, 123, 5853-5885,


2. Modelling the Excitation of Seismic Waves by the Joplin Tornado
   Anne Valovcin and Toshiro Tanimoto,
   Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 2017, doi:10.1002/2017GL074185.


3. Existence of the threshold pressure for seismic excitation by atmospheric disturbances,
   Toshiro Tanimoto and Anne Valovcin,
   Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 2016, doi:10.1002/2016GL070858.


4. Estimate of Rayleigh-to-Love wave ratio in the secondary microseism by a small array at Pinyon Flat observatory, California,
   Toshiro Tanimoto, Chin-Jen Lin, Celine Hadziioannou, Heiner Igel, and Frank Vernon,
   Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 2016, doi:10.1002/2016GL071133.


5. Seasonal variations in the Rayleigh-to-Love wave ratio in the secondary microseism from colocated ring laser and seismograph,
   Toshiro Tanimoto, Celine Hadziioannou, Heiner Igel, Joachim Wassermann, Ulrich Schreiber, Andre Gebauer, and Bryant Chow
   Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, 121, 2016, doi:10.1002/ 2016JB012885.


6. Stochastic excitation of seismic waves by a hurricane,
   Toshiro Tanimoto and Anne Valovcin,
   Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, 120, 2015, doi:10.1002/2015JB012177.


7. Estimate of Rayleigh-to-Love wave ratio in the secondary microseism by co-located ring laser and seismograph,
   Toshiro Tanimoto, Celine Hadziioannou, Heiner Igel, Joachim Wasserman, Ulrich Schreiber, and Andre Gebauer,
   Geophysical Research Letters,, 42, 2015, doi:10.1002/2015GL063637.


8. Interaction of Solid Earth, Atmosphere, and Ionosphere,
   Toshiro Tanimoto, K. Heki and J. Artru-Lambin,
   Treatise in Geophysics (2nd edition), Elsevier, 2015.


9. Unified Structural Representation of the southern California crust and upper mantle,
   John H.Shaw, Andreas Plescha, Carl Tape, M.Peter Suess, Thomas H. Jordan, Geoffrey Ely, Egill Hauksson, Jeroen Tromp, Toshiro Tanimoto, Robert Graves, Kim Olsen, Craig Nicholson, Philip J. Maechling, Carlos Rivero, Peter Lovely, Charles M. Brankman, and Jason Munster, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 415, 1-15, 2015, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.01.016


10. Temporal and spatial evolution of an on-land hurricane observed by seismic data,
    Toshiro Tanimoto and Anne Lamontagne,
    Geophysical Research Letters, 41, p7532-7538, 2014, doi:10.1002/2014GL061934


11. The Millikan shaking experiments and high-frequency seismic wave propagation in Southern California,
    Toshiro Tanimoto and Taro Okamoto,
    Geophysical Journal International, 198, 1081-1095, 2014, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggu189


12. Excitation of microseisms: views from the normal-mode approach,
    Toshiro Tanimoto,
    Geophysical Journal International, 194, 1755-1759, 2013, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt185


13. An approach to improve Rayleigh-wave ellipticity estimates from seismic noise: application to the Los Angeles Basin,
    Toshiro Tanimoto, Tomoko Yano and T. Hakamata,
    Geophysical Journal International, 193, 407-420, 2013, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt123


14. An approach to detect afterslips in giant earthquakes in the normal-mode frequency band,
    Toshiro Tanimoto, Chen Ji and Mitsutsugu Igarashi,
    Geophysical Journal International, 190, 1097–1110, 2012, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05524.x


15. Azimuthal anisotropy from array analysis of Rayleigh waves in Southern California,
    Celso Alvizuri and Toshiro Tanimoto,
    Geophysical Journal International, 186, 1135–1151, 2011, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05093.x


16. The relationship between upper mantle anisotropic structures beneath California, transpression, and absolute plate motions,
    Minoo Kosarian, Paul M. Davis, Toshiro Tanimoto, and Robert W. Clayton,
    Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, B08307, 2011, doi:10.1029/2010JB007742


17. Mantle Dynamics (in Japanese),
    Toshiro Tanimoto,
    Vol.10 in Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2011, published by Iwanami Publishing Co., Tokyo, Revised second edition.


18. Theory of Elastic Vibration (in Japanese),
    Toshiro Tanimoto,
    Vol. 6 in Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2010, published by Iwanami Publishing Co., Tokyo. Revised second edition.


19. Afterslip of the 2010 Chilean Earthquake,
    Toshiro Tanimoto and Chen Ji,
    Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L22312, 2010, doi:10.1029/2010GL045244


20. Equivalent forces for colliding ocean waves,
    Toshiro Tanimoto,
    Geophysical Journal International, 181, 468-478, 2010, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04505.x


21. Variational Principle for Rayleigh Wave Ellipticity,
    Toshiro Tanimoto and Seiji Tsuboi,
    Geophysical Journal International, 179, 1658-1668, 2009, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04360.x


22. The ZH ratio method for long-period seismic data: Inversion for S-wave velocity structure
    Tomoko Yano, Toshiro Tanimoto and Luis Rivera,
    Geophysical Journal International, 179, 1658-1668, 2009, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04360.x


23. Normal-mode solution for the seismic noise cross-correlation method,
    Toshiro Tanimoto
    Geophysical Journal International, 175, 1169-1175, 2008, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03959.x


24. The Noise Cross-Correlation Approach for Apollo 17 LSPE Data: Diurnal Change in Seismic parameters in Shallow Lunar Crust,
    Toshiro Tanimoto, Melissa Eitzel, and Tomoko, Yano,
    Journal of Geophysical Research, Space, 113, E08011, 2008, doi:10.1029/2007JE003016


25. Humming a different tune,
    Toshiro Tanimoto
    Nature, 452, 539-540, 2008, News and Views.


26. The ZH ratio method for long-period seismic data: sensitivity kernels and observational techniques
    Toshiro Tanimoto and Luis Rivera,
    Geophysical Journal International, 172, 187-198, 2008, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03609.x