David Al‐Attar

1.1k total citations
30 papers, 733 citations indexed

About

David Al‐Attar is a scholar working on Geophysics, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David Al‐Attar has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 733 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Geophysics, 13 papers in Oceanography and 7 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in David Al‐Attar's work include High-pressure geophysics and materials (15 papers), Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (12 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (12 papers). David Al‐Attar is often cited by papers focused on High-pressure geophysics and materials (15 papers), Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (12 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (12 papers). David Al‐Attar collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. David Al‐Attar's co-authors include Mark Hoggard, J. X. Mitrovica, Nicky White, Jeroen Tromp, H. C. P. Lau, John Woodhouse, J. L. Davis, Jacqueline Austermann, Konstantin Latychev and Kasra Hosseini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Nature Geoscience.

In The Last Decade

David Al‐Attar

28 papers receiving 726 citations

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Al‐Attar United Kingdom 13 575 147 129 93 51 30 733
H. C. P. Lau United States 16 502 0.9× 229 1.6× 157 1.2× 63 0.7× 35 0.7× 32 702
R. G. Hipkin United Kingdom 14 354 0.6× 56 0.4× 219 1.7× 131 1.4× 20 0.4× 38 624
K. A. Whaler United Kingdom 14 403 0.7× 96 0.7× 159 1.2× 174 1.9× 29 0.6× 29 635
Nobukazu Seama Japan 17 767 1.3× 137 0.9× 122 0.9× 28 0.3× 27 0.5× 49 888
Heping Sun China 9 290 0.5× 186 1.3× 86 0.7× 21 0.2× 164 3.2× 33 553
K. J. Muirhead Australia 17 764 1.3× 82 0.6× 76 0.6× 28 0.3× 29 0.6× 37 921
J. C. Harrison United States 13 301 0.5× 48 0.3× 166 1.3× 91 1.0× 52 1.0× 29 541
R. P. Comer United States 10 748 1.3× 164 1.1× 112 0.9× 265 2.8× 39 0.8× 15 1.0k
Sungchan Choi South Korea 10 368 0.6× 101 0.7× 181 1.4× 265 2.8× 23 0.5× 27 667
Fabio Cammarano Italy 21 1.4k 2.4× 92 0.6× 30 0.2× 175 1.9× 10 0.2× 33 1.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lau, H. C. P., et al.. (2024). Adjoint sensitivity kernels for free oscillation spectra. Geophysical Journal International. 238(1). 257–271.
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Al‐Attar, David, et al.. (2024). On the elastodynamics of rotating planets. Geophysical Journal International. 237(3). 1301–1338.
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Al‐Attar, David, et al.. (2023). Reciprocity and sensitivity kernels for sea level fingerprints. Geophysical Journal International. 236(1). 362–378. 1 indexed citations
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Lloyd, Andrew, et al.. (2023). GIA imaging of 3-D mantle viscosity based on palaeo sea level observations – Part I: Sensitivity kernels for an Earth with laterally varying viscosity. Geophysical Journal International. 236(2). 1139–1171. 4 indexed citations
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Al‐Attar, David, et al.. (2022). Ice age effects on the satellite-derived J˙2 datum: Mapping the sensitivity to 3D variations in mantle viscosity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 581. 117372–117372. 3 indexed citations
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Lau, H. C. P. & David Al‐Attar. (2021). Sensitivity kernels for body tides on laterally heterogeneous planets based on adjoint methods. Geophysical Journal International. 227(2). 786–797. 1 indexed citations
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Al‐Attar, David, et al.. (2020). An extended ice-age sea-level equation: incorporating water flux across sills. Geophysical Journal International. 1 indexed citations
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Al‐Attar, David, et al.. (2019). A non-perturbative method for gravitational potential calculations within heterogeneous and aspherical planets. Geophysical Journal International. 219(2). 1043–1055. 4 indexed citations
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Lau, H. C. P., et al.. (2018). Inferences of Mantle Viscosity Based on Ice Age Data Sets: The Bias in Radial Viscosity Profiles Due to the Neglect of Laterally Heterogeneous Viscosity Structure. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 123(9). 7237–7252. 14 indexed citations
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Al‐Attar, David, et al.. (2018). Hamilton’s principle and normal mode coupling in an aspherical planet with a fluid core. Geophysical Journal International. 11 indexed citations
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Al‐Attar, David, et al.. (2018). Quantifying the sensitivity of post-glacial sea level change to laterally varying viscosity. Geophysical Journal International. 214(2). 1324–1363. 30 indexed citations
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Lau, H. C. P., et al.. (2017). Tidal tomography constrains Earth’s deep-mantle buoyancy. Nature. 551(7680). 321–326. 135 indexed citations
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Al‐Attar, David, et al.. (2017). Exact free oscillation spectra, splitting functions and the resolvability of Earth's density structure. Geophysical Journal International. 213(1). 58–76. 22 indexed citations
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Leng, Kuangdai, Tarje Nissen‐Meyer, Martin van Driel, & David Al‐Attar. (2016). AxiSEM3D: a new fast method for global wave propagation in 3-D Earth models with undulating discontinuities. AGUFM. 2016. 1 indexed citations
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Hoggard, Mark, Nicky White, & David Al‐Attar. (2016). Global dynamic topography observations reveal limited influence of large-scale mantle flow. Nature Geoscience. 9(6). 456–463. 149 indexed citations
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Lau, H. C. P., et al.. (2015). A normal mode treatment of semi-diurnal body tides on an aspherical, rotating and anelastic Earth. Geophysical Journal International. 202(2). 1392–1406. 17 indexed citations
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Al‐Attar, David & Jeroen Tromp. (2013). Sensitivity kernels for viscoelastic loading based on adjoint methods. Geophysical Journal International. 196(1). 34–77. 26 indexed citations
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Al‐Attar, David, John Woodhouse, & Arwen Deuss. (2012). Calculation of normal mode spectra in laterally heterogeneous earth models using an iterative direct solution method. Geophysical Journal International. 189(2). 1038–1046. 28 indexed citations
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Al‐Attar, David & John Woodhouse. (2010). On the parametrization of equilibrium stress fields in the Earth. Geophysical Journal International. 181(1). 567–576. 5 indexed citations
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Al‐Attar, David & John Woodhouse. (2008). Calculation of seismic displacement fields in self-gravitating earth models-applications of minors vectors and symplectic structure. Geophysical Journal International. 175(3). 1176–1208. 35 indexed citations

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