Publications


Harper, H., & Sandwell, D. T. (2024). Global Predicted Bathymetry Using Neural Networks. Earth and Space Science, 11(3), e2023EA003199. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA003199
Harper, H., Luttrell, K., & Sandwell, D. T. (2023). Ridge Propagation and the Stability of Small Mid‐Ocean Ridge Offsets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(8), e2023JB027443. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB027443
Gevorgian, J., Sandwell, D. T., Yu, Y., Kim, S., & Wessel, P. (2023). Global Distribution and Morphology of Small Seamounts. Earth and Space Science, 10(4), e2022EA002331. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EA002331
Yu, Y., Sandwell, D. T., & Gille, S. T. (2023). Seasonality of the Sub‐Mesoscale to Mesoscale Sea Surface Variability From Multi‐Year Satellite Altimetry. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC019486
Zoe Yin, H., Xu, X., Haase, J. S., Douilly, R., Sandwell, D. T., & Mercier de Lepinay, B. (2022). Surface Deformation Surrounding the 2021 Mw 7.2 Haiti Earthquake Illuminated by InSAR Observations. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120220109
Wessel, P., Watts, A. B., Kim, S.-S., & Sandwell, D. T. (2022). Models for the evolution of seamounts. Geophysical Journal International, 231(3), 1898–1916. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac285
Guns, K., Xu, X. H., Bock, Y., & Sandwell, D. (2022). GNSS-corrected InSAR displacement time-series spanning the 2019 Ridgecrest, CA earthquakes. Geophysical Journal International, 230(2), 1358–1373. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac121
Sandwell, D. T., Goff, J. A., Gevorgian, J., Harper, H., Kim, S. S., Yu, Y., Tozer, B., Wessel, P., & Smith, W. H. F. (2022). Improved bathymetric prediction using geological information: SYNBATH. Earth and Space Science, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021ea002069
Ward, L. A., Guns, K. A., Smith‐Konter, B. R., Xu, X., Bock, Y., & Sandwell, D. T. (2022). Vertical Postseismic Deformation of the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(6). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB023331
Wang, J., Fu, L.-L., Haines, B., Lankhorst, M., Lucas, A. J., Farrar, J. T., Send, U., Meinig, C., Schofield, O., Ray, R., Archer, M., Aragon, D., Bigorre, S., Chao, Y., Kerfoot, J., Pinkel, R., Sandwell, D., & Stalin, S. (2022). On the Development of SWOT In Situ Calibration/Validation for Short-Wavelength Ocean Topography. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 39(5), 595–617. https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-21-0039.1
Xu, X. H., Sandwell, D. T., Klein, E., & Bock, Y. (2021). Integrated Sentinel-1 InSAR and GNSS time-series along the San Andreas fault system. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 126(11), 14. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jb022579
Abdalla, S., Kolahchi, A. A., Ablain, M., Adusumilli, S., Bhowmick, S. A., Alou-Font, E., Amarouche, L., Andersen, O. B., Antich, H., Aouf, L., Arbic, B., Armitage, T., Arnault, S., Artana, C., Aulicino, G., Ayoub, N., Badulin, S., Baker, S., Banks, C., … Zlotnicki, V. (2021). Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress. Advances in Space Research, 68(2), 319–363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2021.01.022
Yu, Y., Sandwell, D. T., Gille, S. T., & Boas, A. B. V. (2021). Assessment of ICESat-2 for the recovery of ocean topography. Geophysical Journal International, 226(1), 456–467. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab084
Verron, J., Bonnefond, P., Andersen, O., Ardhuin, F., Berge-Nguyen, M., Bhowmick, S., Blumstein, D., Boy, F., Brodeau, L., Cretaux, J. F., Dabat, M. L., Dibarboure, G., Fleury, S., Garnier, F., Gourdeau, L., Marks, K., Queruel, N., Sandwell, D., Smith, W. H. F., & Zaron, E. D. (2021). The SARAL/AltiKa mission: A step forward to the future of altimetry. Advances in Space Research, 68(2), 808–828. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2020.01.030
Sandwell, D. T., Harper, H., Tozer, B., & Smith, W. H. F. (2021). Gravity field recovery from geodetic altimeter missions. Advances in Space Research, 68(2), 1059–1072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2019.09.011
Zhang, S. J., Abulaitijiang, A., Andersen, O. B., Sandwell, D. T., & Beale, J. R. (2021). Comparison and evaluation of high-resolution marine gravity recovery via sea surface heights or sea surface slopes. Journal of Geodesy, 95(6), 17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-021-01506-8
Ward, L. A., Smith-Konter, B. R., Xu, X. H., & Sandwell, D. T. (2021). Seismic moment accumulation response to lateral crustal variations of the San Andreas Fault System. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 126(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jb021208
Andersen, O. B., Zhang, S. J., Sandwell, D. T., Dibarboure, G., Smith, W. H. F., & Abulaitijiang, A. (2021). The unique role of the Jason geodetic missions for high resolution gravity field and mean sea surface modelling. Remote Sensing, 13(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040646
Harper, H., Tozer, B., Sandwell, D. T., & Hey, R. N. (2021). Marine vertical gravity gradients reveal the global distribution and tectonic significance of “seesaw” ridge propagation. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 126(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jb020017
Xu, X. H., Sandwell, D. T., Ward, L. A., Milliner, C. W. D., Smith-Konter, B. R., Fang, P., & Bock, Y. (2020). Surface deformation associated with fractures near the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. Science, 370(6516), 605–608. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd1690
Ponti, D. J., Blair, J. L., Rosa, C. M., Thomas, K., Pickering, A. J., Akciz, S., Angster, S., Avouac, J. P., Bachhuber, J., Bacon, S., Barth, N., Bennett, S., Blake, K., Bork, S., Brooks, B., Bullard, T., Burgess, P., Chupik, C., Dawson, T., … Zinke, R. (2020). Documentation of surface fault rupture and ground-deformation features produced by the 4 and 5 July 2019 M-w 6.4 and M-w 7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. Seismological Research Letters, 91(5), 2942–2959. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190322
Xu, X. H., Sandwell, D. T., & Smith-Konter, B. (2020). Coseismic displacements and surface fractures from Sentinel-1 InSAR: 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes. Seismological Research Letters, 91(4), 1979–1985. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190275
Xu, X. H., & Sandwell, D. T. (2020). Toward absolute phase change recovery with InSAR: Correcting for earth tides and phase unwrapping ambiguities. Ieee Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 58(1), 726–733. https://doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2019.2940207
Klein, E., Bock, Y., Xu, X. H., Sandwell, D. T., Golriz, D., Fang, P., & Su, L. N. (2019). Transient deformation in California from two decades of GPS displacements: Implications for a three-dimensional kinematic reference frame. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 124(11), 12189–12223. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018jb017201
Tymofyeyeva, E., Fialko, Y., Jiang, J. L., Xu, X. H., Sandwell, D., Bilham, R., Rockwell, T. K., Blanton, C., Burkett, F., Gontz, A., & Moafipoor, S. (2019). Slow slip event on the southern San Andreas Fault triggered by the 2017 M(w)8.2 Chiapas (Mexico) earthquake. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018jb016765
Tozer, B., Sandwell, D. T., Smith, W. H. F., Olson, C., Beale, J. R., & Wessel, P. (2019). Global bathymetry and topography at 15 arc sec: SRTM15+. Earth and Space Science, 6(10), 1847–1864. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019ea000658
Abulaitijiang, A., Andersen, O. B., & Sandwell, D. (2019). Improved Arctic Ocean bathymetry derived from DTU17 gravity model. Earth and Space Science, 6(8), 1336–1347. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018ea000502
Garcia, E. S. M., Sandwell, D. T., & Bassett, D. (2019). Outer trench slope flexure and faulting at Pacific basin subduction zones. Geophysical Journal International, 218(1), 708–728. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz155
DeSanto, J. B., Chadwell, C. D., & Sandwell, D. T. (2019). Kinematic post-processing of ship navigation data using precise point positioning. Journal of Navigation, 72(3), 795–804. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0373463318000887
Xu, X. H., Ward, L. A., Jiang, J. L., Smith-Konter, B., Tymofyeyeva, E., Lindsey, E. O., Sylvester, A. G., & Sandwell, D. T. (2018). Surface creep rate of the southern San Andreas Fault modulated by stress perturbations from nearby large events. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(19), 10259–10268. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gl080137
Sandwell, D., & Smith-Konter, B. (2018). Maxwell: A semi-analytic 4D code for earthquake cycle modeling of transform fault systems. Computers & Geosciences, 114, 84–97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2018.01.009
Tong, X., Sandwell, D. T., & Schmidt, D. A. (2018). Surface Creep Rate and Moment Accumulation Rate Along the Aceh Segment of the Sumatran Fault From L-band ALOS-1/PALSAR-1 Observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(8), 3404–3412. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl076723
Gonzalez-Ortega, J. A., Gonzalez-Garcia, J. J., & Sandwell, D. T. (2018). Interseismic velocity field and seismic moment release in northern Baja California, Mexico. Seismological Research Letters, 89(2), 526–533. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220170133
Xu, X. H., Sandwell, D. T., & Bassett, D. (2018). A spectral expansion approach for geodetic slip inversion: implications for the downdip rupture limits of oceanic and continental megathrust earthquakes. Geophysical Journal International, 212(1), 400–411. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx408
Zhang, S. J., & Sandwell, D. T. (2017). Retracking of SARAL/AltiKa Radar Altimetry Waveforms for Optimal Gravity Field Recovery. Marine Geodesy, 40(1), 40–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490419.2016.1265032
Zhang, S. J., Sandwell, D. T., Jin, T. Y., & Li, D. W. (2017). Inversion of marine gravity anomalies over southeastern China seas from multi-satellite altimeter vertical deflections. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 137, 128–137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2016.12.014
Sandwell, D. T., & Wessel, P. (2016). Interpolation of 2-D vector data using constraints from elasticity. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(20), 10703–10709. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016gl070340
Howell, S., Smith-Konter, B., Frazer, N., Tong, X. P., & Sandwell, D. (2016). The vertical fingerprint of earthquake cycle loading in southern California. Nature Geoscience, 9(8), 611-+. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2741
DeSanto, J. B., Sandwell, D. T., & Chadwell, C. D. (2016). Seafloor geodesy from repeated sidescan sonar surveys. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 121(7), 4800–4813. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016jb013025
Bassett, D., Sandwell, D. T., Fialko, Y., & Watts, A. B. (2016). Upper-plate controls on co-seismic slip in the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake. Nature, 531(7592), 92–96. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16945
Xu, X., Tong, X., Sandwell, D. T., Milliner, C. W. D., Dolan, J. F., Hollingsworth, J., Leprince, S., & Ayoub, F. (2016). Refining the shallow slip deficit. Geophysical Journal International, 204(3), 1867–1886. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv563
Muller, R. D., Qin, X. D., Sandwell, D. T., Dutkiewicz, A., Williams, S. E., Flament, N., Maus, S., & Seton, M. (2016). The GPlates Portal: Cloud-based interactive 3D visualization of global geophysical and geological data in a web browser. PLOS ONE, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150883
Matthews, K. J., Mullner, R. D., & Sandwell, D. T. (2016). Oceanic microplate formation records the onset of India-Eurasia collision. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 433, 204–214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.10.040
Tong, X. P., Sandwell, D. T., & Smith-Konter, B. (2015). An integral method to estimate the moment accumulation rate on the Creeping Section of the San Andreas Fault. Geophysical Journal International, 203(1), 48–62. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv269
Neves, M. C., Cabral, J., Luttrell, K., Figueiredo, P., Rockwell, T., & Sandwell, D. (2015). The effect of sea level changes on fault reactivation potential in Portugal. Tectonophysics, 658, 206–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2015.07.023
O’Connor, J. M., Hoernle, K., Muller, R. D., Morgan, J. P., Butterworth, N. P., Hau, F., Sandwell, D. T., Jokat, W., Wijbrans, J. R., & Stoffers, P. (2015). Deformation-related volcanism in the Pacific Ocean linked to the Hawaiian-Emperor bend. Nature Geoscience, 8(5), 393–397. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2416
Garcia, E. S., Sandwell, D. T., & Luttrell, K. M. (2015). An iterative spectral solution method for thin elastic plate flexure with variable rigidity. Geophysical Journal International, 200(2), 1010–1026. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu449
Malinverni, E. S., Sandwell, D. T., Tassetti, A. N., & Cappelletti, L. (2015). InSAR decorrelation to assess and prevent volcanic risk. European Journal of Remote Sensing, 47, 537–556. https://doi.org/10.5721/EuJRS20144730
Trugman, D. T., Borsa, A. A., & Sandwell, D. T. (2014). Did stresses from the Cerro Prieto Geothermal Field influence the El Mayor-Cucapah rupture sequence? Geophysical Research Letters, 41(24), 8767–8774. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014gl061959
Sandwell, D. T., Müller, R. D., Smith, W. H. F., Garcia, E., & Francis, R. (2014). New global marine gravity model from CryoSat-2 and Jason-1 reveals buried tectonic structure. Science, 346(6205), 65–67. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1258213