The linkage between the sudden change in Cenozoic Pacific Plate motion and underlying convective flow with forward and adjoint models

Jiashun Hu1, Michael Gurnis1, Johann Rudi2 and Georg Stadler3, (1)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)ICES, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY, United States