Peter Davis

Research Specialist

Room: Revelle Lab 2110

Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California San Diego,
La Jolla, CA 92093-0225, USA.

Telephone: (858) 534-2839

Email: pdavis@ucsd.edu

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Research Interests:

• Time series analysis
• Topography of mantle discontinuities
• Seismic velocity structure of the mantle
• Sensor calibration and performance

Recent publications: ^†

• Weber, Michael, J. Peter Davis, Christine Thomas, Frank Krueger, Frank Scherbaum, Joerg Schlittenhardt, and Martin Koernig, The structure of the lowermost mantle as determined using seismic arrays, Seismic Modelling of Earth Structure, Enzo Boschi, Goran Ekstrom, and Andrea Morelli, eds., Editrice Compositori, 339-442, 1996.
• Weber, Michael and J. Peter Davis, Evidence of a laterally inhomogeneous lower mantle structure from P- and S-waves, Geophys. J. Internat. 103, 231-255, 1990.
• Park, J., T.-R. Song, J. Tromp, E. Okal, S. Stein, G. Roult, E. Clevede, G. Laske, H. Kanamori, P. Davis, J. Berger, C. Braitenberg, M. Van Camp, X. Lei, H. Sun, H. Xu and S. Rosat, Earth’s free oscillations excited by the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, Science, 308, 1140-1144, 2005.
• Park, J., R. Butler, K. Anderson, J. Berger, H. Benz, P. Davis, C.R. Hutt, C.S. McCreery, T. Ahern, G. Ekström, and R. Aster, Performance review of the Global Seismographic Network for the Sumatra-Andaman megathrust earthquake, Seis. Res. Lett., 76, 331-343, 2005.
• Davis, P., M. Ishii and G. Masters, An assessment of the accuracy of GSN sensor response information, Seis. Res. Lett., 76, 678-683, 2005.
• Davis, P., and J. Berger, Calibration of the Global Seismographic Network using tides, Seis. Res. Lett., 78, 454-459, 2007.
• Davis, J. Peter, Variations in apparent attenuation of the Earth's normal modes due to lateral inhomogeneity, Geophys. Res. Lett. 12, 141--144, 1984.
• Davis, J. Peter, Rainer Kind and I. Selwyn Sacks, Precursors to P’P’ re-examined using broadband data (1989), Geophys. J. Internat. 99, 595--604, 1989.
• Davis, J. Peter, Local eigenfrequency and its uncertainty inferred from fundamental spheroidal mode frequency shifts (1987), Geophys. J. R. Astr. Soc. 88, 693--722, 1987.
• Davis, J. Peter, I. Selwyn Sacks, and Alan T. Linde, Source complexity of small earthquakes near Matsushiro, Japan , Tectonophysics 166, 175--187, 1989.
• Davis, J. Peter, Free oscillations of the Earth, Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics, David E. James, ed., Van Nostrand Reinhold, 431--441, 1989.
• Davis, J. Peter and Michael Weber, Lower mantle velocity inhomogeneity observed at GRF array (1989), Geophys. Res. Lett. 17, 187--190, 1989.
• Davis, J. Peter and Ivan H. Henson, Validity of the great circular average approximation for inversion of normal mode measurements , Geophys. J. R. Astr. Soc. 85, 69--92, 1986.
• Crampin, Stuart, J. Russell Evans, Mark Doyle and J. Peter Davis, Comments on papers about shear-wave splitting in dilatancy-induced anisotropy by I. N. Gupta, A. Ryall and W. U. Savage, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am. 71, 375--377, 1980.
• Crampin, Stuart, J. Russell Evans, Balamir Ucer, Mark Doyle, J. Peter Davis, G. Yegorkina and Alistair Miller, Observations of dilatancy-induced polarization anomalies and earthquake prediction, Nature 286, 874--877, 1980.
• Berger, J., P. Davis, and G. Ekstrom, Ambient Earth Noise: a survey of the Global Seismic Network, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B11307, 2004.
• Barker, B., M. Clark, Peter Davis, M. Fisk, M. Hedlin, H. Israelsson, V. Khalturin, W.Y. Kim, K. McLaughlin, C. Meade, J. Murphy, R. North, J. Orcutt, C. Powell, P.G. Richards, R. Stead, J. Stevens, F. Vernon and T. Wallace, Monitoring nuclear tests, Science 281, 1967-1968, 1998.
• Al-Amri, A.M., P. Davis, M.S. Al-Amri, A.A. Gharib and J. Berger, Seismic characteristics of RAYN/GSN Station, Saudi Arabia, J. King Saud Univ. 11, 81 – 92, 1999.