Yoshio Fukao
Commendation
for outstanding contributions to seismology, in particular to understanding earthquake source processes, seismic tomography and the theory of the free oscillation of the Earth.
A list of five major papers
- Fukao, Y., 1979, Tsunami earthquakes and subduction processes near deep-sea trenches, J. Geophys. Res., 2303-2314.
- Fukao, Y., 1984, Evidence from core-reflected shear waves for anisotropy in the Earth’s mantle, Nature, 309, 695-698.
- Fukao, Y., M. Obayashi, H. Inoue, M. Nenbai, 1992, Subducting slabs stagnant in the mantle transition zone, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 4809-4822.
- Suda, N., K. Nawa, Y. Fukao, 1998, Earth’s background free oscillations, Science, 279, 2089-2091.
- Fukao, Y., K. Nishida, N. Suda, K. Nawa, N. Kobayashi, 2002, A theory of the Earth’s background free oscillation, J. Geophys. Res., 107, doi:10.1029/2001JB000153.
Nominator
Muneyoshi Furumoto