UCVM users should credit the UCVM software and also the paper documenting any of the registered velocity models used in their research. The UCVM software README.md contains a list of the paper references, as shown below:

UCVM Software Contributors

The following developers have contributed to the development of the UCVM software framework. Along with these UCVM developers, each velocity model accessible through UCVM has its own list of contributors which can be found in the git repositories for each model.

• Mei-Hui Su, Southern California Earthquake Center
• Philip Maechling, Southern California Earthquake Center
• David Gill, Microsoft
• Patrick Small, University of Southern California
• Rasheed Ajala
• Patricia Persaud
• Alan Juarez
• Thomas Jordan
• John Shaw
• Andreas Plesch
• En-Jui Lee
• Po Chen
• Christine Goulet
• Ricardo Taborda
• Kim Olsen
• Scott Callaghan
• Harold Magistrale

References

Researchers that use the UCVM software should cite the primary UCVM software reference, and also, the appropriate reference for any of the velocity models they use in their research.

UCVM Software Reference:

• Small, P., Gill, D., Maechling, P. J., Taborda, R., Callaghan, S., Jordan, T. H., Ely, G. P., Olsen, K. B., & Goulet, C. A. (2017). The SCEC Unified Community Velocity Model Software Framework. Seismological Research Letters, 88(5). doi:10.1785/0220170082. SCEC Contribution 2067

UCVM Model References

CVM-H

• Shaw, J. H., A. Plesch, C. Tape, M. P. Suess, T. H. Jordan, G. Ely, E. Hauksson, J. Tromp, T. Tanimoto, R. Graves, K. Olsen, C. Nicholson, P. J. Maechling, C. Rivero, P. Lovely, C. M. Brankman, J. Munster (2015). Unified Structural Representation of the southern California crust and upper mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 415 1, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.01.016 SCEC Contribution 2004

CVM-S Model:

• Magistrale, H, Day, S, Clayton, RW, Graves, RW (2000) The SCEC southern California reference three-dimensional seismic velocity model version 2. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 90(6B): S65–S76.
• Kohler, MD, Magistrale, H, Clayton, RW (2003) Mantle heterogeneities and the SCEC reference three-dimensional seismic velocity model version 3. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 93(2): 757–774.

CVM-S4.26 and CVM-S4.26.M01

• Lee, E.-J., P. Chen, T. H. Jordan, P. J. Maechling, M. A. M. Denolle, and G. C.Beroza (2014), Full 3-D tomography for crustal structure in Southern California based on the scattering-integral and the adjoint-wavefield methods, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119, doi:10.1002/2014JB011346. SCEC Contribution 6093

USGS Central California Model (cencal)

• Brocher, Tom & Aagaard, Brad & Simpson, R. & Jachens, R.. (2006). The USGS 3D Seismic Velocity Model for Northern California. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. -1. 1266.

ALBACORE Model:

• Bowden, D. C., Kohler, M. D., Tsai, V. C., & Weeraratne, D. S. (2016). Offshore southern California lithospheric velocity structure from noise cross-correlation functions. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121(5), 3415-3427. doi: 10.1002/2016JB012919.

Imperial Valley Model:

• Persaud P., Y. Ma, J. M. Stock, J. Hole, G. Fuis and L. Han (2016), Fault zone characteristics and basin complexity in the southern Salton Trough, California , Geology, 44(9), p. 747-750, doi:10.1130/G38033.1.

Coachella Valley Model

• Ajala, R., Persaud, P., Stock, J. M., Fuis, G. S., Hole, J. A., Goldman, M., & Scheirer, D. (2019). Three‐Dimensional Basin and Fault Structure From a Detailed Seismic Velocity Model of Coachella Valley, Southern California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth,. doi: 10.1029/2018JB016260. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JB016260

Wasatch Model:

• Magistrale, H, Olsen, KB, Pechmann, JC (2008) Construction and verification of a Wasatch front community velocity model. Technical report no. HQGR.060012, 14 pp. Reston, VA: US Geological Survey.

Lin-Thurber Model

• Lin, G., C. H. Thurber, H. Zhang, E. Hauksson, P. Shearer, F. Waldhauser, T. M. Brocher, and J. Hardebeck (2010), A California statewide three-dimensional seismic velocity model from both absolute and differential times. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 100, 225-240. doi: 10.1785/0120090028. SCEC Contribution 1360

Ely/Jordan GTL

• Ely, G., T. H. Jordan, P. Small, P. J. Maechling (2010), A Vs30-derived Near-surface Seismic Velocity Model Abstract S51A-1907, presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec.

Topography-based Vs30 Model

• Wald, D. J., and T. I. Allen (2007), Topographic slope as a proxy for seismic site conditions and amplification, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 97 (5), 1379-1395, doi:10.1785/0120060267.

Wills California Vs30 Model

• Wills, C. J., and K. B. Clahan (2006), Developing a map of geologically defined site-condition categories for California, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 96 (4A), 1483-1501, doi:10.1785/0120050179.

Thompson California Vs30 Model

• Thompson, E.M. (2018), An Updated Vs30 Map for California with Geologic and Topographic Constraints (ver. 2.0, July 2022): U.S. Geological Survey data release, doi:10.5066/F7JQ108S.

CVM-H Basins

• Plesch, A., C.H. Thurber, C. Tape, and J.H. Shaw (2021, 08), The SCEC CVM effort: new basin models, enhanced access and tomographic updates. Oral Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting.