Peng Fang

Research Specialist

Room: Revelle Lab 4108

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

Telephone: (858) 534-2445

Email: pfang@ucsd.edu

Website: http://lox/~pfang/

Research Interests:

• High precision satellite positioning and its applications in geophysics
• Determinations and interpretations of global gravity field

Recent publications: ^†

• Williams, S.D.P., Y. Bock, P. Fang, P. Jamason, R.M. Nikolaidis, L. Prawirodirdjo, M. Miller, D.J. Johnson, (2004) Error analysis of continuous GPS position time series, J. Geophys. Res., 109 (B03412).
• Williams, S., Y. Bock, P. Fang (1998): Integrated satellite interferometry: Tropospheric noise, GPS estimates and implications for interferometic synthetic aperture radar products, J. Geophys. Res., 27051-27067.
• Wdowinski, S., Y. Bock, J. Zhang, P. Fang, and J. Genrich, (1997) Southern California Permanent GPS Geodetic Array: Spatial Filtering of Daily Positions for Estimating Coseismic and Postseismic Displacements Induced by the 1992 Landers Earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 18,057-18,070
• Walls, C., T. Rockwell, K. Mueller, Y. Bock, S. Williams, J. Pfanner, J. Bolan and P. Fang, (1998) Escape Tectonics in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Region and Implications for Seismic Risk, Nature, 394, 356-360.
• Shen, Z-K, M. Wang, Y. Li, D. Jackson, D. David, A. Yin, D. Dong, and P. Fang, (2001) Crustal deformation along the Altyn Tagh fault system, western China, from GPS, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 30607-30622.
• Shen, Z-K, C. Zhao, A. Yin, Y. Li, D. Jackson, P. Fang, and D. Dong, (2000) Contemporary crustal deformation in east Asia constrained by Global Positioning System measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 5721-5734.
• Paul Jamason, Yehuda Bock, Peng Fang, Brent Gilmore, David Malveaux, Linette Prawirodirdjo and Michael Scharber, GPS on the Web: SOPAC Web site (http://sopac.ucsd.edu), GPS Solutions, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2004, 272-277
• Hung, J-H., H-P. Zhan, D.V. Wiltschko, and P. Fang, (2002) Geodetically observed displacement of the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake near southern termination of the Chelungpu fault, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Vol.13, No.3, 2355-366.
• Hung, J-H, D.V. Wiltschko, H-C. Huang, J.H. Hickman, P. Fang, and Y. Bock, (1999) Structure and motion of the southwestern Taiwan fold and thrust belt, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, Vol.10, No.3, 543-568.
• Hickman, J.B., D.V. Wiltschko, J-H. Hung, P. Fang, and Y. Bock, (2002) Structure and evolution of the active fold-and-trust belt of southwestern Taiwan from Global Positioning System analysis”, Geological Society of America, Special Papers 358, 75-92.
• Fang, P., M. Bevis, Y. Bock, S. Gutman, and D. Wolfe (1998): GPS meteorology: Reducing systematic errors for zenith delay, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 3583-3586.
• Fang, P., G. Gendt, T. Springer, and T. Mannucci (2001): IGS Near Real-time Products and Their Applications, GPS Solutions, Vol 4, No 4, 2-8.
• Dong,D.; Fang,P.; Bock,Y.; Webb,F.; Prawirodirdjo,L.; Kedar,S.; Jamason,P., Spatiotemporal filtering using principal component analysis and Karhunen-Loeve expansion approaches for regional GPS network analysis, J. Geophys. Res., 111, 2006, (B03405)
• Dong, D., P. Fang, Y. Bock, M.K. Cheng, and S. Miyazaki, (2002) Anatomy of apparent seasonal variations from GPS-derived site position time series, J. Geophys. Res., 107(B4), ETG 9, 1-18.
• A. Ozgun Konca, Jean-Philippe Avouac, Anthony Sladen, Aron J. Meltzner, Kerry Sieh, Peng Fang, Zhenhong Li, John Galetzka, Jeff Genrich, Mohamed Chlieh, Danny H. Natawidjaja, Yehuda Bock, Eric J. Fielding, Chen Ji, Don V. Helmberger., Partial rupture of a locked patch of the Sumatra megathrust during the 2007 earthquake sequence, Nature 456, 631 - 635 (04 Dec 2008), doi: 10.1038/nature07572, Letter