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How Glacial Forebulges Shape the Seas and Shake the Earth Open

Christian Brandes, Holger Steffen, Rebekka Steffen, Tanghua Li, Patrick Wu · 2025

A glacial forebulge is a bending-related upheaval of the lithosphere that has a strong effect on the sea level change pattern and on lithospheric stresses, which can induce intraplate earthquakes.

Sensitivity of glacial isostatic adjustment observations on 3D Earths with lateral viscosity variations: A perspective from the Forward problem Open

Patrick Wu · 2025

Effects of the Last Quaternary Glacial Forebulge on Vertical Land Movement, Sea‐Level Change, and Lithospheric Stresses Open

Christian Brandes, Holger Steffen, Rebekka Steffen, Tanghua Li, Patrick Wu · 2025

A glacial forebulge is a bending‐related upheaval of the lithosphere outside a glaciated area that co‐occurs to the depression of the lithosphere below an ice sheet. The forebulge of the last glaciation attracted attention over more than o…

P-542. Long-Acting (LA) Intramuscular (IM) Cabotegravir and Rilpivirine (CAB/RPV) in Adults for the Maintenance of HIV-1 Suppression in County-Based Clinics in Riverside County Open

Chiao An Chiu, My-Van La, Nikki Mulligan, Patrick Wu, Bruce Weng , et al. · 2025

Background IM CAB/RPV effectively maintained HIV viral suppression in prior randomized controlled trials. The study aimed to apply CAB/RPV trial results in a county population. The secondary aim was to characterize socioeconomic factors af…

Glacial Isostatic Adjustment modelling of the mid-Holocene sea-level highstand of Singapore and Southeast Asia Open

Tanghua Li, Stephen Chua, Fangyi Tan, Nicole S. Khan, Timothy A. Shaw , et al. · 2023

A commercial finite element approach to modelling Glacial Isostatic Adjustment on spherical self-gravitating compressible earth models Open

Pingping Huang, Rebekka Steffen, Holger Steffen, Volker Klemann, Patrick Wu , et al. · 2023

SUMMARY This paper presents a method that modifies commercial engineering-oriented finite element packages for the modelling of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) on a self-gravitating, compressible and spherical Earth with 3-D structures.…

Glacial Isostatic Adjustment modelling of the mid-Holocene sea-level highstand of Singapore and Southeast Asia Open

Tanghua Li, Fangyi Tan, Stephen Chua, Nicole S. Khan, Timothy A. Shaw , et al. · 2023

The mid-Holocene sea-level highstand refers to the development of higher-than-present relative sea levels (RSLs) in far-field regions between 7,000 and 4,000 years ago because of equatorial ocean syphoning and continental levering. The tim…

The Børglum fault, Sorgenfrei-Tornquist Zone, northern Denmark: a natural laboratory to investigate a hidden active intra-plate fault Open

Christian Brandes, Ulrich Polom, Jutta Winsemann, Peter B.E. Sandersen, Patrick Wu , et al. · 2023

Intra-plate faults are a special challenge in seismology, because of the long intervals between individual seismic events and the fact that such faults are often hidden below young sediments. This makes such faults difficult to detect and …

Management of Renal Angiomyolipomas in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: A Case Report and Literature Review Open

Mitchell Hunter‐Dickson, Patrick Wu, Akshay Athavale, Ying Wang · 2022

We report a case of misdiagnosed tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) in a patient without TSC gene variant presenting with bilateral renal angiomyolipomas and seizures in the context of strong family history of polycystic kidney disease. Clin…

Glacial isostatic adjustment: physical models and observational constraints Open

W. R. Peltier, Patrick Wu, Donald F. Argus, Tanghua Li, Jesse Velay‐Vitow · 2022

By far the most prescient insights into the interior structure of the planet have been provided on the basis of elastic wave seismology. Analysis of the travel times of shear or compression wave phases excited by individual earthquakes, or…

The inclusion of ice model uncertainty in 3D Glacial Isostatic Adjustment modelling: a case study from the Russian Arctic Open

Tanghua Li, W. R. Peltier, G.R. Stuhne, Nicole S. Khan, Alisa Baranskaya , et al. · 2022

<p>The western Russian Arctic was partially covered by the Eurasian ice sheet complex during the Last Glacial Maximum (~26 ka BP) and is a focus area for Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) studies. However, there have been few GIA st…

Influence of 3D Earth Structure on Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in the Russian Arctic Open

Tanghua Li, Nicole S. Khan, Alisa Baranskaya, Timothy A. Shaw, W. R. Peltier , et al. · 2022

Analyses of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) and deglacial relative sea‐level (RSL) change in the Russian Arctic deliver important insights into the Earth's viscosity structure and the deglaciation history of the Eurasian ice sheet compl…

GRACE-based estimates of groundwater variations over North America from 2002 to 2017 Open

Hansheng Wang, Longwei Xiang, Holger Steffen, Patrick Wu, Liming Jiang , et al. · 2021

Effects of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment on Surface Topography, Flow Accumulation,  Stream Power & Sediment Transport Indexes in the Canadian Prairies Open

Patrick Wu, Tanghua Li, Holger Steffen · 2021

<p>Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) induced by the melting of the Pleistocene Ice Sheets causes differential land uplift, relative sea level and geoid changes. Thus, GIA in North America may affect water flow-accumulation and the r…

Parameters controlling mid-Holocene highstand in Glacial Isostatic Adjustment modelling Open

Tanghua Li, Stephen Chua, Nicole S. Khan, Patrick Wu, Benjamin P. Horton · 2021

<p>Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) records from regions distal from ice sheets (far-field) are commonly characterized by a mid-Holocene highstand, when RSL reached higher than present levels. The magnitude and timing of the mid-Hol…

Epidemiology of Sepsis-associated Acute Kidney Injury in Beijing, China : a descriptive analysis Open

Haiman Wang, Xiaojun Ji, Amanda Y Wang, Patrick Wu, Zhuang Liu , et al. · 2021

Background Sepsis is the most common contributing factor towards development of acute kidney injury (AKI), which is strongly associated to poor prognostic outcomes. There are numerous epidemiological studies about sepsis-associated acute k…

LM17.3 - a global vertical land motion model of glacial isostatic adjustment Open

Holger Steffen, Tanghua Li, Patrick Wu, Evan J. Gowan, Erik R. Ivins , et al. · 2021

We provide a global 0.5-degree grid of vertical land motion (in mm/a) of the LM17.3 glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) model. The radially varying earth model part is profile VM5a (Peltier et al. 2015). The ice load is different to any oth…

Essays on Representation Learning for Political Science Research Open

Patrick Wu · 2021

This dissertation consists of three papers about leveraging representation learning for political science research. Representation learning refers to techniques that learn a mapping between input data and a feature vector or tensor with re…

Epidemiology of Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury in Beijing, China: A Descriptive Analysis Open

Haiman Wang, Xiaojun Ji, Amanda Y Wang, Patrick Wu, Zhuang Liu , et al. · 2020

Background Sepsis is the most common contributing factor towards development of acute kidney injury (AKI), which is strongly associated to poor prognostic outcomes. There are numerous epidemiological studies about sepsis-associated acute k…

Influence of 3D Earth structure on Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in the Russian Arctic Open

Tanghua Li, Nicole S. Khan, Alisa Baranskaya, Timothy A. Shaw, W. R. Peltier , et al. · 2020

We validate 1D glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) models ICE-6G_C (VM5a) and ICE-7G_NA (VM7), and new 3D GIA models in the Russian Arctic against a quality-controlled deglacial relative sea-level (RSL) database. The 1D models correspond to…

Uncertainties of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Model Predictions in North America Associated With 3D Structure Open

Tanghua Li, Patrick Wu, Hansheng Wang, Holger Steffen, Nicole S. Khan , et al. · 2020

We quantify GIA prediction uncertainties of 250 1D and 3D glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) models through comparisons with deglacial relative sea‐level (RSL) data from North America and rate of vertical land motion ( ) and gravity rate o…

Glacial Isostatic Adjustment with 3D Earth models: A comparison of case studies of deglacial relative sea level records of North America and Russian Arctic Open

Tanghua Li, Nicole S. Khan, Simon E. Engelhart, Alisa Baranskaya, W. R. Peltier , et al. · 2020

<p>The Canadian landmass of North America and the Russian Arctic were covered by large ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum, and have been key areas for Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) studies. Previous GIA studies have appl…

Computational model results for "Uncertainties of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment model predictions in North America associated with 3D structure" Open

Tanghua Li, Patrick Wu, Hansheng Wang, Holger Steffen, Nicole S. Khan , et al. · 2019

The mean GIA signals of RSL, u-dot and g-dot with 1σ, 2σ and 3σ uncertainties in North America.

Computational model results for "Uncertainties of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment model predictions in North America associated with 3D structure" Open

Tanghua Li, Patrick Wu, Hansheng Wang, Holger Steffen, Nicole S. Khan , et al. · 2019

The mean GIA signals of RSL, u-dot and g-dot with 1σ, 2σ and 3σ uncertainties in North America.

CONVERSE TRENDS OF THE TERRESTRIAL AND GROUND WATER STORAGE CHANGES IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES Open

Huiliang Wang, Longwei Xiang, Holger Steffen, Patrick Wu, Liming Jiang , et al. · 2019

We study the terrestrial water storage (TWS) and groundwater storage (GWS) changes in Canada and United States. We employ the separation approach from Wang et al. (2013) together with the improved GRACE data of Release 6 for a longer time …

Data for: Holocene relative sea-level changes in the Malay Peninsula Open

Yongqiang Zong, Guangqing Huang, Haixian Xiong, Yiying Sun, Hamlee bin Ismal , et al. · 2018

This file contains new and previously published sea-level index points from the Malay Peninsula.

Glacially induced faulting along the NW segment of the Sorgenfrei-Tornquist Zone, northern Denmark: Implications for neotectonics and Lateglacial fault-bound basin formation Open

Christian Brandes, Holger Steffen, Peter B.E. Sandersen, Patrick Wu, Jutta Winsemann · 2018

The Sorgenfrei-Tornquist Zone (STZ) is the northwestern segment of the Tornquist Zone and extends from Bornholm across the Baltic Sea and northern Denmark into the North Sea. It represents a major lithospheric structure with a significant …

Hydrology signal from GRACE gravity data in the Nelson River basin, Canada: a comparison of two approaches Open

Tanghua Li, Patrick Wu, Hansheng Wang, Lulu Jia, Holger Steffen · 2018

Water storage changes in the interior of the Tibetan Plateau, link to data underlying Fig. 1-3 and A1-A13 Open

Longwei Xiang, Hansheng Wang, Holger Steffen, Liming Jiang, Qiang Shen , et al. · 2018

Water storage changes in the interior of the Tibetan Plateau, link to data underlying Fig. 1-3 and A1-A13

Effects of mantle rheologies on viscous heating induced by Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Open

Pingping Huang, Patrick Wu, Wouter van der Wal · 2017

It has been argued that viscous dissipation from mantle flow in response to surface loading during glacial cycles can result in short-term heating and thus trigger transient volcanism or changes in mantle properties, which may in turn affe…

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