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Paul Wessel
Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii at Manoa
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GMT as a Library for Interface With Other Languages: The GMTMEX and Julia Wrappers, and Opportunities for Evolution
THE IMPACT OF GMT IN THE EARTH, OCEAN, AND SPACE SCIENCES: WHAT’S NEXT? I ORAL
union sessions | 09 december 2024
Joaquim M. Luis, Remko Scharroo, Walter H. Smith, ...
By evolving to keep up with user needs, the Generic Mapping Tools have served the science community flexibly for over 30 years. But times are changing...
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The Effective Elastic Thickness Along the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain and its Geodynamic Implications
OCEANIC MAGMATISM AND DYNAMICS: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON HOT SPOTS AND SEAMOUNTS IV ORAL
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 09 december 2024
Anthony B. Watts, Chong Xu, Paul Wessel, Brian Bos...
We have used seismic, gravity anomaly and bathymetry data, together with 3-dimensional elastic plate (flexure) models with spatially variable volcano ...
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The Generic Mapping Tools and Animations for the Masses
GEOCHEMISTRY, GEOPHYSICS, GEOSYSTEMS
16 june 2024
Paul Wessel, Federico Esteban, Guillaume Delaviel-...
Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) is a well‐known set of software originally developed for geosciences, allowing scientists in climate and solid ea...
The Origins of the Generic Mapping Tools: From Table Tennis to Geoscience
PERSPECTIVES OF EARTH AND SPACE SCIENTISTS
17 march 2024
Paul Wessel
The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) is one of the most used toolsets in the Earth, Ocean, and Planetary sciences, originating as far back as the 1980s....
Global Distribution and Morphology of Small Seamounts
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
06 april 2023
Julie Gevorgian, David T. Sandwell, Yao Yu, Seung-...
Seamounts are isolated elevations in the seafloor with circular or elliptical plans, comparatively steep slopes, and relatively small summit area (...
Global Distribution of Small Seamounts from Satellite Gravity and Ship Soundings
SEAMOUNTS FROM BIRTH TO DEATH I ORAL
tectonophysics | 14 december 2022
David T. Sandwell, Julie Gevorgian, Yao Yu, Hugh H...
Vertical Gravity Gradient (VGG) maps of the oceans have improved dramatically due to new data collected by the SARAL/Altika and CryoSat-2 radar altime...
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Morphologic Models for the Growth and Decay of Volcanic Seamounts
SEAMOUNTS FROM BIRTH TO DEATH I ORAL
tectonophysics | 14 december 2022
Paul Wessel, Anthony B. Watts, Seung-Sep Kim, Davi...
Volcanic seamounts are among the most ubiquitous landforms on Earth. They are created near mid-ocean spreading ridge crests and are found in transform...
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The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall: The Collapse of the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain
SEAMOUNTS FROM BIRTH TO DEATH I ORAL
tectonophysics | 14 december 2022
Brian Boston, Phil Cilli, Donna J. Shillington, An...
The Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain is one of the most prominent seamount chains on Earth, spanning ~6,000 km, and home to some of the largest landsli...
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