Complex inner core of the Earth: The last frontier of global seismology

Heterogeneity and Anisotropy of Earth's Inner Core

(2014) Arwen Deuss   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Intricate heterogeneous structures of the top 300km of the Earth’s inner core inferred from global array data: I. Regional 1D attenuation and velocity profiles

(2014) R. Iritani et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Regionally heterogeneous uppermost inner core observed with Hi-net array

(2014) Tae-Gyu Yee et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Composition and State of the Core

(2013) Kei Hirose et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

A Nonlinear Method to Estimate Source Parameters, Amplitude, and Travel Times of Teleseismic Body Waves

(2013) R. F. Garcia et al.   BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Uppermost inner core seismic structure – new insights from body waveform inversion

(2013) Januka Attanayake et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Sharp hemisphere boundaries in a translating inner core

(2013) Z. M. Geballe et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

On the nature of the P-wave velocity gradient in the inner core beneath Central America

(2013) Hrvoje Tkalčić et al.   Journal of Earth Science

Earth’s solid inner core: Seismic implications of freezing and melting

(2013) Vernon F. Cormier et al.   Journal of Earth Science

Constraining shear wave velocity and density contrast at the inner core boundary with PKiKP/P amplitude ratio

(2013) Xiangfang Zeng et al.   Journal of Earth Science

The shuffling rotation of the Earth’s inner core revealed by earthquake doublets

(2013) Hrvoje Tkalčić et al.   Nature Geoscience

Electromagnetically driven westward drift and inner-core superrotation in Earth's core

(2013) P. W. Livermore et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Candy Wrapper for the Earth's Inner Core

(2013) M. Mattesini et al.   Scientific Reports

Structure and dynamics of Earth's inner core

(2012) Renaud Deguen   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Implication of the lopsided growth for the viscosity of Earth's inner core

(2012) Hugau Mizzon et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Observation of high-frequency PKiKP in Japan: Insight into fine structure of inner core boundary

(2012) Guoming Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Seismic structure near the inner core boundary in the south polar region

(2012) Toshiki Ohtaki et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Velocity and attenuation of scalar and elastic waves in random media: A spectral function approach

(2012) Marie Calvet et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Magnetic tornadoes as energy channels into the solar corona

(2012) Sven Wedemeyer-Böhm et al.   NATURE

Depth extent of hemispherical inner core from PKP(DF) and PKP(Cdiff) for equatorial paths

(2012) Satoru Tanaka   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Irregular topography at the Earth's inner core boundary

(2012) Z. Dai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global seismic body-wave observations of temporal variations in the Earth's inner core, and implications for its differential rotation

(2011) Anna M. Mäkinen et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

On the visibility of the inner-core shear wave phase PKJKP at long periods

(2011) Peter M. Shearer et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Distinct layering in the hemispherical seismic velocity structure of Earth's upper inner core

(2011) Lauren Waszek et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Hemispherical structure in inner core velocity anisotropy

(2011) J. C. E. Irving et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Melting of the Earth’s inner core

(2011) David Gubbins et al.   NATURE

Inner core freezing and melting: Constraints from seismic body waves

(2011) Vernon F. Cormier et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Core structure re-examined using new teleseismic data recorded in Antarctica: evidence for, at most, weak cylindrical seismic anisotropy in the inner core

(2010) Daniel Leykam et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Inner core-mantle gravitational locking and the super-rotation of the inner core

(2010) Mathieu Dumberry et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Seismic attenuation structure of the top half of the inner core beneath the northeastern Pacific

(2010) R. Iritani et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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) Hrvoje Tkalčić   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Antipodal seismic observations of temporal and global variation at Earth's inner-outer core boundary

(2010) Rhett Butler et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Inner core rotation and its variability from nonparametric modeling

(2010) Daniela Lindner et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Melting-induced stratification above the Earth’s inner core due to convective translation

(2010) Thierry Alboussière et al.   NATURE

Hemispherical anisotropic patterns of the Earth's inner core

(2010) M. Mattesini et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Regional Variation of Inner Core Anisotropy from Seismic Normal Mode Observations

(2010) A. Deuss et al.   SCIENCE

Lopsided Growth of Earth's Inner Core

(2010) M. Monnereau et al.   SCIENCE

A glassy lowermost outer core

(2009) Vernon F. Cormier   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Normal mode coupling due to hemispherical anisotropic structure in Earth's inner core

(2009) J. C. E. Irving et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

On the inner-outer core density contrast from PKiKP/PcP amplitude ratios and uncertainties caused by seismic noise

(2009) Hrvoje Tkalčić et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Steep reflections from the earth's core reveal small-scale heterogeneity in the upper mantle

(2009) Hrvoje Tkalčić et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Core structure and heterogeneity: a seismological perspective∗

(2008) H. TkalČić et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Constraints on grain size and stable iron phases in the uppermost inner core from multiple scattering modeling of seismic velocity and attenuation

(2008) Marie Calvet et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Wide-scale detection of earthquake waveform doublets and further evidence for inner core super-rotation

(2008) Jian Zhang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Inner-core shear-wave anisotropy and texture from an observation of PKJKP waves

(2008) James Wookey et al.   NATURE

Thermochemical flows couple the Earth's inner core growth to mantle heterogeneity

(2008) Julien Aubert et al.   NATURE

Seismic evidence for distinct anisotropy in the innermost inner core

(2008) Fenglin Niu et al.   Nature Geoscience

Elastic Anisotropy of Earth's Inner Core

(2008) A. B. Belonoshko et al.   SCIENCE