Please see my personal webpage for further information
Highlighted publications
Waszek, L., Irving, J., & Deuss, A. (2011). Reconciling the hemispherical structure of Earth's inner core with its super-rotation. Nature Geoscience, 4(4), 264-267. https://doi.org/10.1038/NGEO1083
Deuss, A., Irving, J. C. E., & Woodhouse, J. H. (2010). Regional variation of inner core anisotropy from seismic normal mode observations. Science, 328(5981), 1018-1020. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1188596
Deuss, A. (2014). Heterogeneity and anisotropy of Earth's inner core. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 42, 103-126. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-060313-054658
Deuss, A., & Woodhouse, JH. (2004). The nature of the Lehmann discontinuity from its seismological Clapeyron slopes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 225(3-4), 295-304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2004.06.021
Ritsema, J., Deuss, A., van Heijst, H. J., & Woodhouse, J. H. (2011). S40RTS: a degree-40 shear-velocity model for the mantle from new Rayleigh wave dispersion, teleseismic traveltime and normal-mode splitting function measurements. Geophysical Journal International, 184(3), 1223-1236. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04884.x
Deuss, A., Redfern, S. A. T., Chambers, K., & Woodhouse, J. H. (2006). The nature of the 660-kilometer discontinuity in Earth's mantle from global seismic observations of PP precursors. Science, 311(5758), 198-201. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1120020
Deuss, A., & Woodhouse, J. (2001). Seismic observations of splitting of the mid-transition zone discontinuity in Earth's mantle. Science, 294(5541), 354-357. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1063524
Deuss, A., Ritsema, J., & van Heijst, H. (2013). A new catalogue of normal-mode splitting function measurements up to 10 mHz. Geophysical Journal International, 193(2), 920-937. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggt010
Publications
2022
Scholarly publications
Brett, H., Hawkins, R., Waszek, L., Lythgoe, K., & Deuss, A. (2022). 3D transdimensional seismic tomography of the inner core. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 593, 1-12. [117688]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117688
Schneider, S., Talavera-Soza, S., Jagt, L., & Deuss, A. (2022). FrosPy: A Modular Python Toolbox for Normal Mode Seismology. Seismological Research Letters, 93(2A), 967-974. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220210208
Moulik, P., Lekic, V., Romanowicz, B., Ma, Z., Schaeffer, A., Ho, T., Beucler, E., Debayle, E., Deuss, A., Durand, S., Ekström, G., Lebedev, S., Masters, G., Priestley, K., Ritsema, J., Sigloch, K., Trampert, J., & Dziewonski, A. M. (2022). Global reference seismological data sets: multimode surface wave dispersion. Geophysical Journal International, 228(3), 1808-1849. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab418
2021
Scholarly publications
Jagt, L., & Deuss, A. (2021). Comparing one-step full-spectrum inversion with two-step splitting function inversion in normal mode tomography. Geophysical Journal International, 227(1), 559-575. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab240
Talavera Soza, S. A., & Deuss, A. F. (2021). New measurements of long-period radial modes using large earthquakes. Geophysical Journal International, 224(2), 1212-1225. [ggaa499]. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa499
Schneider, S. A., & Deuss, A. F. (2021). A new catalogue of toroidal-mode overtone splitting function measurements. Geophysical Journal International, 225(1), 329-341. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa567
2020
Scholarly publications
Brett, H., & Deuss, A. (2020). Inner core anisotropy measured using new ultra-polar PKIKP paths. Geophysical Journal International, 223(2), 1230-1246. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa348
Van Tent, R., Deuss, A., Kaneshima, S., & Thomas, C. (2020). The signal of outermost-core stratification in body-wave and normal-mode data. Geophysical Journal International, 223(2), 1338-1354. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa368
Talavera-Soza, S., & Deuss, A. (2020). Constraining 1-D inner core attenuation through measurements of strongly coupled normal mode pairs. Geophysical Journal International, 223(1), 612-621. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa324
2019
Scholarly publications
van Stiphout, A. M., Cottaar, S., & Deuss, A. F. (2019). Receiver function mapping of mantle transition zone discontinuities beneath Alaska using scaled 3-D velocity corrections. Geophysical Journal International, 219(2), 1432–1446. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz360
2018
Scholarly publications
Jenkins, J., Maclennan, J., Green, R. G., Cottaar, S., Deuss, A. F., & White, R. S. (2018). Crustal Formation on a Spreading Ridge Above a Mantle Plume: Receiver Function Imaging of the Icelandic Crust. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(6), 5190-5208. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JB015121
Koelemeijer, P., Schuberth, B. S. A., Davies, D. R., Deuss, A., & Ritsema, J. (2018). Constraints on the presence of post-perovskite in Earth's lowermost mantle from tomographic-geodynamic model comparisons. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 494, 226-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.04.056
Godwin, H., Waszek, L., & Deuss, A. (2018). Measuring the seismic velocity in the top 15 km of Earth's inner core. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 274, 158-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2017.11.010
Akbarashrafi, F., Al-Attar, D., Deuss, A. F., Trampert, J., & Valentine, A. P. (2018). Exact free oscillation spectra, splitting functions and the resolvability of Earth's density structure. Geophysical Journal International, 213(1), 58–76. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx539
2017
Scholarly publications
Koelemeijer, P., Deuss, A., & Ritsema, J. (2017). Density structure of Earth's lowermost mantle from Stoneley mode splitting observations. Nature Communications, 8, 1-10. [15241]. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15241
Jenkins, J., Deuss, A., & Cottaar, S. (2017). Converted phases from sharp 1000 km depth mid-mantle heterogeneity beneath Western Europe. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 459, 196-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.11.031
Other output
Akbarashrafi, F., Al-Attar, D., Deuss, A. F., Trampert, J. A., & Valentine, A. P. (2017). Do splitting functions constrain Earth's density structure?. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2017, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
2016
Scholarly publications
Jenkins, J., Cottaar, S., White, R. S., & Deuss, A. (2016). Depressed mantle discontinuities beneath Iceland: Evidence of a garnet controlled 660 km discontinuity? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 433, 159-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.10.053
Cottaar, S., & Deuss, A. (2016). Large-scale mantle discontinuity topography beneath Europe: Signature of akimotoite in subducting slabs. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121(1), 279-292. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JB012452
Koelemeijer, P., Ritsema, J., Deuss, A., & van Heijst, H. J. (2016). SP12RTS: A degree-12 model of shear- and compressional-wave velocity for Earth's mantle. Geophysical Journal International, 204(2), 1024-1039. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv481
2015
Scholarly publications
Woodhouse, J. H., & Deuss, A. (2015). Theory and Observations - Earth's Free Oscillations. In G. Schubert (Ed.), Treatise on Geophysics (Second Edition): Volume 1: Deep Earth Seismology (pp. 79-115). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-53802-4.00002-6
Lythgoe, K. H., & Deuss, A. (2015). The existence of radial anisotropy in Earth's upper inner core revealed from seismic normal mode observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(12), 4841-4848. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064326
Irving, J. C. E., & Deuss, A. (2015). Regional seismic variations in the inner core under the North Pacific. Geophysical Journal International, 203(3), 2189-2199. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv435
Waszek, L., Thomas, C., & Deuss, A. (2015). PKP precursors: Implications for global scatterers. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(10), 3829-3838. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL063869
Waszek, L., & Deuss, A. (2015). Anomalously strong observations of PKiKP/PcP amplitude ratios on a global scale. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 120(7), 5175-5190. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JB012038
Lythgoe, K. H., Rudge, J. F., Neufeld, J. A., & Deuss, A. F. (2015). The feasibility of thermal and compositional convection in Earth’s inner core. Geophysical Journal International, 201, 764-782. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv034
Waszek, L., & Deuss, A. F. (2015). Observations of exotic inner core waves. Geophysical Journal International, 200, 1636-1650. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu497
Blom, N. A., Deuss, A., Paulssen, H., & Waszek, L. (2015). Inner core structure behind the PKP core phase triplication. Geophysical Journal International, 201(3), 1657-1665. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv103
Other output
Paulssen, H., Blom, N. A., Deuss, A. F., & Waszek, L. (2015). Inner Core Structure Behind the PKP Core Phase Triplication. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, California, United States.
Deuss, A. F. (2015). Structure and dynamics of the Earth's inner core. Abstract from International union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Prague, Czech Republic.
2014
Scholarly publications
Deuss, A. (2014). Heterogeneity and anisotropy of Earth's inner core. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 42, 103-126. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-060313-054658
Lythgoe, K. H., Deuss, A., Rudge, J. F., & Neufeld, J. A. (2014). Earth's inner core: Innermost inner core or hemispherical variations? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 385, 181-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.10.049
Mäkinen, A. M., Deuss, A., & Redfern, S. A. T. (2014). Anisotropy of Earth's inner core intrinsic attenuation from seismic normal mode models. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 404, 354-364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.08.009
Other output
Ritsema, J., Deuss, A., & Koelemeijer, P. J. (2014). The Effect of Wavefront Healing on Estimates of S-Wave and P-Wave Heterogeneity in D”. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, United States. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Paper/5994
Koelemeijer, P., Deuss, A., Ritsema, J., & van Heijst, H. (2014). Normal Mode Insights into the Long Wavelength Velocity and Density Structure of the Lowermost Mantle. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, United States. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Paper/4084
Koelemeijer, P. J., Deuss, A., Ritsema, J., & van Heijst, H. (2014). Tomographic-Geodynamic Model Comparisons and the Presence of Post-Perovskite and Chemical Heterogeneity in Earth's Lowermost Mantle. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, United States. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Paper/7342
Cottaar, S., & Deuss, A. (2014). Imaging the Effects of Subducting Slabs on the Mantle Transition Zone with Pds Receiver Functions Beneath Southern Europe. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, United States. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Paper/7966
Lythgoe, K. H., Rudge, J. F., Neufeld, J. A., & Deuss, A. (2014). The Feasibility of Thermal and Compositional Convection in Earth's Inner Core. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, United States. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Paper/8522
Day, E. A., Cottaar, S., Irving, J. C. E., & Deuss, A. (2014). Stratification at the Top of the Outer Core: Constraints from Smks and Pmkp Phases. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, United States. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Paper/8580
Deuss, A., Irving, J. C. E., Lythgoe, K. H., & Waszek, L. (2014). Regional Variations in Inner Core Heterogeneity and Anisotropy from Seismic Body Wave and Normal Mode Observations. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, United States. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Paper/9235
2013
Scholarly publications
Deuss, A., Andrews, J., & Day, E. (2013). Seismic Observations of Mantle Discontinuities and Their Mineralogical and Dynamical Interpretation. In S-I. Karato (Ed.), Physics and Chemistry of the Deep Earth (pp. 297-323). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118529492.ch10
Soldati, G., Koelemeijer, P., Boschi, L., & Deuss, A. (2013). Constraints on core-mantle boundary topography from normal mode splitting. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14(5), 1333-1342. https://doi.org/10.1002/ggge.20115
Deuss, A., Ritsema, J., & van Heijst, H. (2013). A new catalogue of normal-mode splitting function measurements up to 10 mHz. Geophysical Journal International, 193(2), 920-937. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggt010
Koelemeijer, P., Deuss, A., & Ritsema, J. (2013). Observations of core-mantle boundary Stoneley modes. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(11), 2557-2561. https://doi.org/10.1002/grl.50514
Maekinen, A. M., & Deuss, A. (2013). Normal mode splitting function measurements of anelasticity and attenuation in the Earth's inner core. Geophysical Journal International, 194(1), 401-416. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggt092
Maekinen, A. M., & Deuss, A. (2013). Normal mode splitting due to inner core attenuation anisotropy. Geophysical Journal International, 195(3), 1786-1795. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggt332
Day, E. A., & Deuss, A. (2013). Reconciling PP and P'P' precursor observations of a complex 660 km seismic discontinuity. Geophysical Journal International, 194(2), 834-838. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggt122
Waszek, L., & Deuss, A. (2013). A low attenuation layer in the Earth's uppermost inner core. Geophysical Journal International, 195(3), 2005-2015. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggt368
Other output
Blom, N., & Deuss, A. (2013). Earth's inner core: revealing the anisotropy behind the PKP core phase triplication. Abstract from Gordon Research Conferences: Earth's Deep Interior 2013, Mount Holyoke, United States.
2012
Scholarly publications
Al-Attar, D., Woodhouse, J. H., & Deuss, A. (2012). Calculation of normal mode spectra in laterally heterogeneous earth models using an iterative direct solution method. Geophysical Journal International, 189(2), 1038-1046. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05406.x
Koelemeijer, P. J., Deuss, A., & Trampert, J. (2012). Normal mode sensitivity to Earth's D" layer and topography on the core-mantle boundary: what we can and cannot see. Geophysical Journal International, 190(1), 553-568. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05499.x
Mosca, I., Cobden, L., Deuss, A., Ritsema, J., & Trampert, J. (2012). Seismic and mineralogical structures of the lower mantle from probabilistic tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 117(B6), 1978-2012. [B06304]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JB008851
2011
Scholarly publications
Deuss, A., Ritsema, J., & van Heijst, H. (2011). Splitting function measurements for Earth's longest period normal modes using recent large earthquakes. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, [04303]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010GL046115
Ritsema, J., Deuss, A., van Heijst, H. J., & Woodhouse, J. H. (2011). S40RTS: a degree-40 shear-velocity model for the mantle from new Rayleigh wave dispersion, teleseismic traveltime and normal-mode splitting function measurements. Geophysical Journal International, 184(3), 1223-1236. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04884.x
Waszek, L., Irving, J., & Deuss, A. (2011). Reconciling the hemispherical structure of Earth's inner core with its super-rotation. Nature Geoscience, 4(4), 264-267. https://doi.org/10.1038/NGEO1083
Irving, J. C. E., & Deuss, A. (2011). Hemispherical structure in inner core velocity anisotropy. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 116, [04307]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JB007942
Irving, J. C. E., & Deuss, A. (2011). Stratified anisotropic structure at the top of Earth's inner core: A normal mode study. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 186(1-2), 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2011.03.003
Maekinen, A. M., & Deuss, A. (2011). Global seismic body-wave observations of temporal variations in the Earth's inner core, and implications for its differential rotation. Geophysical Journal International, 187(1), 355-370. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05146.x
Waszek, L., & Deuss, A. (2011). Distinct layering in the hemispherical seismic velocity structure of Earth's upper inner core. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 116, [12313]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JB008650
2010
Scholarly publications
Deuss, A., Irving, J. C. E., & Woodhouse, J. H. (2010). Regional variation of inner core anisotropy from seismic normal mode observations. Science, 328(5981), 1018-1020. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1188596
2009
Scholarly publications
Irving, J. C. E., Deuss, A., & Woodhouse, J. H. (2009). Normal mode coupling due to hemispherical anisotropic structure in Earth's inner core. Geophysical Journal International, 178(2), 962-975. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04211.x
Deuss, A. (2009). Global Observations of Mantle Discontinuities Using SS and PP Precursors. Surveys in Geophysics, 30(4-5), 301-326. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-009-9078-y
Ritsema, J., van Heijst, H. J., Woodhouse, J. H., & Deuss, A. (2009). Long-period body wave traveltimes through the crust: implication for crustal corrections and seismic tomography. Geophysical Journal International, 179(2), 1255-1261. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04365.x
2008
Scholarly publications
Deuss, A. (2008). Normal mode constraints on shear and compressional wave velocity of the Earth's inner core. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 268(3-4), 364-375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.01.029
Andrews, J., & Deuss, A. (2008). Detailed nature of the 660 km region of the mantle from global receiver function data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 113(B6), [06304]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2007JB005111
Irving, J. C. E., Deuss, A., & Andrews, J. (2008). Wide-band coupling of Earth's normal modes due to anisotropic inner core structure. Geophysical Journal International, 174(3), 919-929. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03824.x
2006
Scholarly publications
Andrews, J., Deuss, A., & Woodhouse, J. (2006). Coupled normal-mode sensitivity to inner-core shear velocity and attenuation. Geophysical Journal International, 167(1), 204-212. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03022.x
Deuss, A., Redfern, S. A. T., Chambers, K., & Woodhouse, J. H. (2006). The nature of the 660-kilometer discontinuity in Earth's mantle from global seismic observations of PP precursors. Science, 311(5758), 198-201. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1120020
2005
Scholarly publications
Cammarano, F., Deuss, A., Goes, S., & Giardini, D. (2005). One-dimensional physical reference models for the upper mantle and transition zone: Combining seismic and mineral physics constraints. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 110(B1), [01306]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2004JB003272
Chambers, K., Deuss, A., & Woodhouse, JH. (2005). Reflectivity of the 410-km discontinuity from PP and SS precursors. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 110(B2), [02301]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2004JB003345
Cammarano, F., Goes, S., Deuss, A., & Giardini, D. (2005). Is a pyrolitic adiabatic mantle compatible with seismic data? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 232(3-4), 227-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2005.01.031
Chambers, K., Woodhouse, JH., & Deuss, A. (2005). Topography of the 410-km discontinuity from PP and SS precursors. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 235(3-4), 610-622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2005.05.014
2004
Scholarly publications
Deuss, A., & Woodhouse, JH. (2004). The nature of the Lehmann discontinuity from its seismological Clapeyron slopes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 225(3-4), 295-304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2004.06.021
Deuss, A., & Woodhouse, J. (2004). Iteration method to determine the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a target multiplet including full mode coupling. Geophysical Journal International, 159(1), 326-332. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02399.x
2002
Scholarly publications
Deuss, A., & Woodhouse, JH. (2002). A systematic search for mantle discontinuities using SS-precursors. Geophysical Research Letters, 29(8), [1249]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2002GL014768
2001
Scholarly publications
Deuss, A., & Woodhouse, JH. (2001). Theoretical free-oscillation spectra: the importance of wide band coupling. Geophysical Journal International, 146(3), 833-842.
Deuss, A., & Woodhouse, J. (2001). Seismic observations of splitting of the mid-transition zone discontinuity in Earth's mantle. Science, 294(5541), 354-357. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1063524
2000
Scholarly publications
Deuss, A., Woodhouse, JH., Paulssen, H., & Trampert, J. (2000). The observation of inner core shear waves. Geophysical Journal International, 142(1), 67-73.