2012 Publications

Carboni, E., Thomas, G.E., Sayer, A.M., Siddans, R., Poulsen, C.A., Grainger, R.G., Ahn, C., Antoine, D., Bevan, S., Braak, R., Brindley, H., DeSouza-Machado, S., Deuzé, J. L., Diner, D., Ducos, F., Grey, W., Hsu, C., Kalashnikova, O.V., Kahn, R., North, P.R.J., Salustro, C., Smith, A., Tanré, D., Torres, O., and Veihelmann, B. (2012) Intercomparison of desert dust optical depth from satellite measurements, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 5, 1973—2002.

Carboni, E., Grainger, R.G., Walker, J.C., Dudhia, A., and Siddans, R. (2012) A new scheme for sulphur dioxide retrieval from IASI measurements: application to the Eyjafjallajökull eruption of April and May 2010, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12, 11417—11434.

Copley, A. (2012) The formation of mountain range curvature by gravitational spreading, EPSL, 351-352, p.208-214.

Copley, A., Hollingsworth, J., and Bergman, E. (2012) Constraints on fault and lithosphere rheology from the coseismic slip and postseismic afterslip of the 2006 Mw7.0 Mozambique earthquake Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, doi:10.1029/2011JB008580.

Costa, A., Wadge, G., Melnik, O. (2012)  Cyclic extrusion of a lava dome based on a stick-slip mechanism. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 337-8, 39-46. Doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.05.011.

Craig, T.J, Copley, A., and Jackson, J. (2012) Thermal and tectonic consequences of India under-
thrusting Tibet. Earth & Planet. Sci. Lett., v353-354, 231-239.

Crowley K. and Elliott, J. R. (2012) Earthquake disasters and resilience in the global North: lessons from New Zealand and Japan, The Geographical Journal, doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2011.00453.x

Ebmeier, S.K., Biggs, J., Mather, T.A., Elliott, J.R., Wadge, G., and Amelung, F. (2012) Measuring large topographic change with InSAR: Lava thicknesses, extrusion rate and subsidence rate at Santiaguito volcano, Guatemala, Earth Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.027

Elliott, J.R., Nissen, E., England, P., Jackson, J., Lamb, S., Li, Z., Oehlers, M. and Parsons, B. (2012)
Slip in the 2010-2011 Canterbury Earthquakes, New Zealand, Journal Geophysical Research,doi:10.1029/2011JB008868

Ferguson D.J., Calvert A.T., Pyle D.M., Blundy J.D., Yirgu G., Wright T.J. (2013) Constraining timescales of focused magmatic accretion and extension in the Afar crust using lava geochronology., Nat Commun, 4, pp.1416. doi: 10.1038/ncomms2410

Field L., Blundy J., Brooker R.A., Wright T., Yirgu G. (2012) Magma storage conditions beneath Dabbahu Volcano (Ethiopia) constrained by petrology, seismicity and satellite geodesy, Bulletin of Volcanology, 74, pp.981-1004. doi: 10.1007/s00445-012-0580-6

Ghail, R.C., Wilson, C., Galand, M., Hall, D., Cochrane, C., Mason, P., Helbert, J., MontMessin, F., Limaye, S., Patel, M., Bowles, N., Stam, D., Wahlund, J., Rocca, F., Waltham, D., Mather, T.A., Biggs, J., Genge, M., Paillou, P., Mitchell, K., Wilson, L., and Singh, U.N. (2012) EnVision: taking the pulse of our twin planet, Experimental Astronomy, 33, 337-363. (doi:10.1007/s10686-011-9244-3)

Hjartardóttir Á.R., Einarsson P., Bramham E., Wright T.J. (2012) The Krafla fissure swarm, Iceland, and its formation by rifting events, Bulletin of Volcanology, 74, pp.2139-2153. doi: 10.1007/s00445-012-0659-0

McCormick, B.T., Edmonds, M., Mather, T.A., and Carn, S.A. (2012) First synoptic analysis of volcanic degassing in Papua New Guinea, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 13, Q03008. (doi:10.1029/2011GC003945)

McKenzie, D. & Jackson, J. (2012) Tsunami earthquake generation by the release of gravitational
potential energy. Earth & Planet. Sci. Lett., v345-348, 1-8.

Mellors, R.J., Jackson, J., Myers, S., Gok, R., Priestley, K., Yetirmishli, G., Turkelli, N. & Godoladze, T. (2012) Deep earthquakes beneath the northern Caucasus: evidence of active or recent subduction in western Asia. Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., v102, 862-866.

Moore, T., M.Ziebart, P.Groves, W.Ochieng, S.Feng and I.Kale (2012), Multi-GNSS Integration: The Challenges of Diversity, Inside GNSS (Thought Leadership Series), May/June 2012

Nobile A., Ruch J., Acocella V., Pagli C., Wright T.J., Keir D., Ayele A. (2012) Dike-fault interaction during the 2004 Dallol intrusion at the northern edge of the Erta Ale Ridge (Afar, Ethiopia), Geophysical Research Letters, 39, . doi: 10.1029/2012GL053152

Oramas-Dorta, D., Cole, P.D., Wadge, G. Alvarado, G.E., Soto, G.J. (2012) Spatial and temporal controls on pyroclastic flow hazard at Arenal volcano, Costa Rica. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 225-226, 45-64. Doi:/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.02.008.

Oramas-Dorta, D., Cole, P.D., Wadge, G. Alvarado, G.E., Soto, G.J. (2012) Pyroclastic flow hazard at Arenal volcano, Costa Rica: scenarios and assessment. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 247-248, 74-92. Doi:/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.07.015.

Pagli C; Wright TJ; Cann JR; Ebinger CJ; Yun S-H; Barnie T; Ayele A (2012) Shallow axial magma chamber at the slow-spreading Erta Ale Ridge, Nature Geoscience, 5, pp.284-288. doi: 10.1038/ngeo1414

Parks, M.M., Biggs, J., England, P., Mather, T.A., Nomikou, P., Palamartchouk, K., Papanikolaou, X., Paradissis, D.,

Parsons, B., Pyle, D.M., Raptakis, C., and Zacharis, V. (2012) Evolution of Santorini Volcano dominated by episodic and rapid fluxes of melt from depth, Nature Geoscience, 5, 749-754. (doi:10.1038/ngeo1562)

Pope, F.D., P. Braesicke, R.G. Grainger, M. Kalberer, I.M. Watson, P.J. Davidson and R. A. Cox. (2012) Stratospheric aerosol particles and solar-radiation management, Nature Climate Change, 2, 177—188.

Pyle, D.M. (2012) Perspective: Small volcanic eruptions and the stratospheric sulphate aerosol burden, Environmental Research Letters 7, 031001. [Open Access]

Schepanski K., Wright T.J., Knippertz P. (2012) Evidence for flash floods over deserts from loss of coherence in InSAR imagery, Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres, 117, . doi: 10.1029/2012JD017580

Scott, J.A.J., Mather, T.A., Pyle, D.M., Rose, W.I., Chigna, G. (2012) The magmatic plumbing system beneath

Santiaguito volcano, Guatemala, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 237-238, 54-68.

Sloan, R.A. & Jackson, J. (2012) Upper-mantle earthquakes beneath the Arafura Sea and south Aru Trough: implications for continental rheology. J. geophys. Res., v117, B05402.

Sparks, R. S. J., Biggs, J., & Neuberg, J. W. (2012). Monitoring Volcanoes. Science, 335(6074), 1310-1311.

Toombs, A.C. (2011) Volcano-tectonic deformation and lava flow subsidence modelling using InSAR data at Nyamuragira Volcano, D.R. Congo. PhD thesis, University of Reading, 371 pp.

Toombs, A.C., Wadge, G. (2012) Co-eruptive and inter-eruptive surface deformation measured by satellite radar interferometry at Nyamuragira volcano, D.R. Congo, 1996 to 2010. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 245-246, 98-122.

Wadge, G., Saunders, S., Itikarai, I. (2012) Pulsatory andesite lava flow at Bagana volcano. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 13/11 Q11011, Doi: 1029/2012GC004336.

Wadge G., et al. (2012)  Assessment of the hazards and risks associated with the Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat. Seventeenth Report of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Montserrat Volcanic Activity, www.mvo.ms.

Wang H., Jiang L., Wright T.J., Yu Y., Lin H., Li C., Qiu G. (2012) InSAR reveals coastal subsidence in the Pearl River Delta, China, Geophysical Journal International, 191, pp.1119-1128. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05687.x

Wang H. and Wright T.J. (2012) Satellite geodetic imaging reveals internal deformation of western Tibet, Geophysical Research Letters, 39, doi: 10.1029/2012GL051222

Walker, J.C., Carboni, E., Dudhia, A., and Grainger, R.G. (2012) Improved detection of sulphur dioxide in volcanic plumes using satellite-based hyperspectral infrared measurements: Application to the Eyjafjallajökull 2010 eruption, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, D00U16.

Walker, R.T. (2012). Asia’s broken foreland: faulting and earthquakes in Kazakhstan. Geoscientist, 22(7), 12-17.

Wright, T.J., Houlie N., Hildyard, M., Iwabuchi T. (2012) Real-time, reliable magnitudes for large earthquakes from 1 Hz GPS Precise Point Positioning: the 2011 Tohoku-Oki (Japan) earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2012GL051894

Wright T.J., Pagli C., Sigmundsson F., Brandsdóttir B., Pedersen R., Einarsson P., Belachew M., Ebinger C., Hamling I.J., Keir D., Ayele A., Lewi E., Calais E. (2012) Geophysical constraints on the dynamics of spreading centres from rifting episodes on land, Nature Geoscience, 5, pp.242-250. doi: 10.1038/ngeo1428

Yamasaki, T., Houseman, G.A., 2012a. The signature of depth-dependent viscosity structure in post-seismic deformation. Geophysical Journal International, 190, 769-784.

Yamasaki, T., Houseman, G.A., 2012b. The crustal viscosity gradient measured from post-seismic deformation: a case study of the 1997 Manyi (Tibet) earthquake. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 351-352, 105-114.

Zinas, N., A.Parkins and M.Ziebart (2012), Improved network-based single epoch ambiguity resolution using centralized GNSS network processing, GPS Solutions, DOI: 10.1007/s10291-012-0256-x