R. Michael Jones

Publications, as of July 2020

  1. Agy, V., D. M. Baker, and R. M. Jones (1965): Studies of solar flare effects and other ionospheric disturbances with a high frequency Doppler technique. NBS Tech Note 306. NTIS accession number C13.46:306.
  2. Jones, R.. M. (1966): A three-dimensional ray tracing computer program. ESSA Tech. Rep. IER 17-ITSA 17. 112 pp. PB174502.
  3. Jones, R. M. and J. Stephenson (1968): A fast ray tracing program for a concentric ionosphere neglecting the earth's magnetic field. ESSA Tech Memo ERLTM-ITS 135.
  4. Jones, R. M. (1968): Application of the geometrical theory of diffraction to terrestrial LF radio wave propagation. Mitteilungen aus dem Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie Nr. 37. The errata are available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/pubs/errata5.htm.
  5. Jones, R. M. (1968): A three-dimensional ray-tracing computer program (digest of ESSA Tech Rept, ITSA No. 17), Radio Sci., vol 3, 93-94.
  6. Jones, R. M. (1968): A quasi-optical method for calculating propagation of LF radio waves in the presence of an ionosphere with horizontal gradients - Part I - Ray theory for lossy media, Part II - Diffraction by the earth. URSI Symposium on Electromagnetic Waves in Stresa, Italy, 24-29 June 1968 (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  7. Jones, R. M. (1968): Modifications to the three-dimensional ray tracing program described in IER 17-ITSA 17, ESSA Tech Memo ERLTM-ITS 134, U. S. Dept. of Commerce/Environmental Science Services Administration, ESSA Research Laboratories, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, Boulder, Colorado.
  8. Davies, K. and R. M. Jones (1969): The ITSA three-dimensional ray tracing program. Chapter 15 (pp. 173-198) in Oblique Ionospheric Radiowave Propagation at Frequencies near the Lowest Usable High Frequency; AGARD Conference Proceedings No. 13, Technivision Services )a division of Engelhard Hanovia International ltd.), Slough, England,(T. B. Jones, ed.)
  9. Jones, R. M. (1969): A quasi-optical method for calculating propagation of LF radio waves in the presence of an ionosphere with horizontal gradients - Ray theory for lossy media and diffraction by the earth, Alta Frequenza 38, Nr. Speciale, 193-197.
  10. Berry, L. A. and R. M. Jones (1970): A time-varying electron density model for LF/VLF propagation calculations. Telecommunications Tech Memo OT/ITSTM 3.
  11. Jones, R. M. (1970): Ray theory for lossy media, Radio Sci, 793-801. The computer programs used to perform the calculations presented in this paper are available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/raytracing/programs.htm#2-in_complex_space and http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/LF_ray_theory/programs.htm.
  12. Jones, R. M. (1970): A saddlepoint approximation for the pulse response of the ionosphere. National Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Denver, Colorado, July, 1970 (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  13. Jones, R. M. (1970): The meaning of a complex group refractive index, p. 51, Programs and Abstracts, URSI 1970 fall meeting, Columbus, Ohio, 15-17 September 1970 (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  14. Jones, R. M. (1971): Bending of a ray in a random inhomogeneous medium, pp. 73-75 in Preprint volume, URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Wave Theory, Tbilisi, USSR, 9-15 September 1971.
  15. Jones, R. M. (1972): A ray theory interpretation of inospheric LF reflection coefficient measurements, p. 51 in Programs and Abstracts, URSI 1972 fall Meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia, 12-15 December 1972 (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  16. Georges, T. M. and R. M. Jones (1974): Propagation of severe-storm infrasound to ionospheric heights: a narrow-band atmospheric filter. 88th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, St. Louis, Missouri, 4-8 November 1974 (ABSTRACT ONLY). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 56, p. S2(A).
  17. Jones, R. M. and J. J. Stephenson (1975): A versatile three dimensional ray tracing computer program for radio waves in the ionosphere. OT Report 75-76. PB2488567. Copies of the report are available from the National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. Errata are on page 231 of NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-103 and are also at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/raytracing/programs.htm#1-3d-iono.75/errata. Computer program available at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/raytracing/programs.htm#1-3d-iono.75/ and http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/raytracing/programs.htm#2-ionospheric_models/. A pc version of the program is available at ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/IONOSPHERE/MODELS/JONES.3D/ .
  18. Jones, R. M. and T. M. Georges (1976): Infrasound from convective storms, III. Propagation to the ionosphere. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol 59, 765-779.
  19. Wyngaard, J. C., and R. M. Jones (1976): The atmospheric boundary layer over a simple inhomogeneous surface, pp. 60-63 in Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Atmospheric Turbulence, Diffusion and Air Quality, 26-29 October 1976, Raleigh, N.C. Published by American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA.
  20. Jones, R. M. (1977): A spherically symmetric Machian solution. 8th Insternational Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 7-12 August 1977. (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  21. Jones, R. M. (1977): Analysis of the relationship between LF reflection coefficients and D-region profiles. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-29. PB2763878. Microfiche available from Government Publications Library, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. The errata are available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/pubs/errata4.htm. The computer programs used to perform the calculations presented in this report are available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/D-region/.
  22. Jones, R. M. and H. Kopka (1978): The sensitivity of D-region partial reflections to irregularity composition, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., vol 40, 723-731.
  23. Jones, R. M. (1978): Excitation of waves by irregular terrain in a neutral atmospheric boundary layer, p. 134, Programs and Abstracts, URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, 6-9 November 1978 (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  24. Jones, R. M. (1980): Adding partial reflection capability to the NOAA/MPAE digital HF radar. Report MPAE-W-02-80-18, Max-Planck Institut fur Aeronomie, West Germany.
  25. Georges, T. M. and R. M. Jones (1980): A mathematical model for how ionospheric reflection degrades sea-echo spectra. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-60. 16 pp. PB81108359.
  26. Jones, R. M. (1980): Machian cosmologies as wave packets. 9th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation in Jena, German Democratic Republic, 14-19 July, 1980 (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  27. Jones, R. M. and R. N. Grubb (1980): D-region partial reflection Doppler measurements with the NOAA/MPAE digital HF radar. Max-Planck-Institut Fur Aeronomie. Report No. MPAE-W-02-80-20.
  28. Jones, R. M. (1981): Bending of a ray in a random inhomogeneous medium. NOAA Tech. Memo ERL WPL-77. PB82148966.
  29. Georges, T. M., J. W. Maresca, C. T. Carlson, J. P. Riley, R. M. Jones and D. E. Westover (1981): Recovering ocean waveheight from HF radar sea echoes distorted by imperfect ionospheric reflection. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-73. 149 pp. PB82113283.
  30. Jones, R. M. (1981): The Hankel probability distribution - the distribution for the product of two Rayleigh-distributed random variables. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-79. PB82160995.
  31. Jones, R. M. (1981): The frequency shift of a pulse by a time independent, dispersive, lossy medium. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-80. PB82161977.
  32. Jones, R. M. (1981): The probability distribution for the ratio of variables having a normal distribution. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-84. PB82169525. The errata are available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/pubs/errata10.pdf.
  33. Jones, R. M. (1981): The mean and variance of skywave radar sea-echo power spectra for discrete ionospheric multipath. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-85. PB8217423.
  34. Jones, R. M. (1981): The mean and variance of skywave radar sea-echo power spectra. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-86. PB82175969.
  35. Jones, R. M. (1982): Algorithms for reflecting rays from general topographic surfaces in a ray tracing program. NOAA Tech. Memo ERL WPL-98. PB83112953.
  36. Jones, R. M., T. M. Georges, and J. P. Riley (1982): Recognizing and reducing ionospheric distortion of skywave radar sea-echo spectra - recommended tests with synthetically distorted spectra. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-90. 20 pp. PB82194721.
  37. Jones, R. M. (1982): Ionospheric distortion of skywave sea-echo Doppler spectra, p. 164, Program and Abstracts, URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 13-15 January 1982, Boulder, CO. (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  38. Jones, R. M., G. W. Adams and D. C. Walden (1982): Preliminary ionospheric partial-reflection measurements at Brighton, Colorado on 9 January 1981. NOAA Tech Memo ERL SEL-60. PB82244583.
  39. Jones, R. M., J. P. Riley, and T. M. Georges (1982): A versatile three-dimensional Hamiltonian ray-tracing computer program for acoustic waves in the atmosphere. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-103. 242 pp. PB83149930. Errata are on page 408 of the HARPA report and are also at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/raytracing/programs.htm#1-harpa.103/errata. Computer program available at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/raytracing/programs.htm#1-harpa.103/. Additional general documentation for the ray tracing programs is available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/raytracing/programs.htm.
  40. Jones, R. M. (1982): Improved estimates of HF radiowave field strength near a land-sea interface. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-105. PB83165332.
  41. Jones, R. M. (1983): Amplitude of HF radiowaves near a land-sea interface, p. 115, Program and Abstracts, URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 5-7 January 1983, Boulder, CO. (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  42. Jones, R. M., J. P. Riley, and T. M. Georges (1983): Measured ionospheric Doppler spreading of HF ground backscatter. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-109. PB83220764.
  43. Jones, R. M. (1983): Acoustic-gravity wave dispersion relations in a baroclinic atmosphere. AMS Fourth Conf. on Atmospheric and Oceanic Waves and Stability, 22-25 March 1983, Boston, Ma. (abstract on page 77 in Program & Abstract Booklet).
  44. Jones, R. M. (1983): A survey of underwater-acoustic ray tracing techniques. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-111. PB83250522.
  45. Jones, R. M. (1983): Acoustic-gravity wave dispersion relations in a baroclinic atmosphere. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-112. PB83248690. The erratum is available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/pubs/erratum3.htm.
  46. Jones, R. M. (1983): The role of edge diffraction in coupling of groundwaves at a land-sea interface, pp. 227-230 in Proceedings of 1983 URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, 23-26 August, Santiago De Compostela, SPAIN.
  47. Jones, R. M., J. P. Riley, and T. M. Georges (1983): A three dimensional ray-tracing program for atmospheric acoustic waves, pp. 73-75 of preprint volume I, 11th Congres International D'Acoustique, 19-27 July 1983, Paris, France.
  48. Jones, R. M., T. M. Georges and J. P. Riley (1983): Ray tracing as an aid to inverting acoustic measurements in the Florida Straits to monitor heat flux of the Gulf Stream, pp. 4.1-4.7 in Symposium Digest, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS'83) and National Radio Science - Commission F Meeting (URSI), August 31 - September 2, 1983, San Francisco, CA.
  49. Jones, R. M., J. P. Riley, and T. M. Georges (1984): Frequency correlation of HF skywave ground backscatter Doppler spectra. NOAA Tech. Memo. ERL WPL-115, 83 pp. PB84204353.
  50. Jones, R. M., J. P. Riley, and T. M. Georges (1984): Statistics of HF skywave ground backscatter Doppler spectra. NOAA Tech. Memo. ERL WPL-116, 60 pp. PB84204973.
  51. Jones, R. M., J. P. Riley, and T. M. Georges (1984): Using measured variance of skywave radar sea-echo power spectra to estimate ionospheric Doppler broadening of mean spectra. NOAA Tech. Memo. ERL WPL-117. 53 pp. PB84214071.
  52. Jones, R. M. (1984): How edge diffraction couples groundwave modes at a shoreline. Radio Science, vol. 19, no. 4, 959-965.
  53. Georges, T. M., R. M. Jones and J. P. Riley (1984): A new look at acoustic refraction by mesoscale ocean features with Hamiltonian ray-tracing. 108th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN - Special Session on Computation-Intensive Ocean Acoustics, October 1984. ABSTRACT ONLY. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. vol. 76 (S1), p. S39(A).
  54. Jones, R. M. (1984): Groundwave height-gain functions near a shoreline. NOAA Tech. Rep. ERL 425-WPL 59. PB851070.
  55. Jones, R. M., T. M. Georges, and J. P. Riley (1984): Modeling acoustic remote sensing in the Florida Straits with ray tracing. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, GE-22, 633-640. (Special Issue).)
  56. Jones,, R. M., T. M. Georges and J. P. Riley (1984): Parameter estimation with ocean acoustic tomography, pp. 15-32 in Advances in Remote Sensing Retrieval Methods (Proceedings of the Workshop on Advances in Remote Sensing Retrieval Methods, held at Williamsburg, Virginia, October 30 - November 2, 1984) A. Deepak, H. Fleming and M. Chahine (Eds), A. Deepak Publishing, Hampton, Virginia, part of the series Studies in Geophysical Optics and Remote Sensing, A. Deepak, series editor.
  57. Georges, T. M., R. M. Jones, and J. P. Riley (1985): A general purpose three-dimensional acoustic ray-tracing program that allows for winds and irregular terrain, pp. 141-149 in Proceedings of the Symposium/Workshop on the Physics of Long Range Sound Propagation and Coupling into the Ground, 13-15 February, 1985, New Orleans, LA.
  58. Georges, T. M., R. M. Jones, and J.P. Riley (1985): Simulating tomography measurements with Hamiltonian ray tracing. Presented at the Third International Symposium on Acoustic Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Oceans, 14-17 October 1985. Paris, FRANCE, p. 257 in Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Acoustic Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Oceans, Alain Weill, Ed. (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  59. Jones, R. M., T.M. Georges, and J.P. Riley (1985): Ocean sound-speed profiles from vertical-slice tomography. Presented at the Third International Symposium on Acoustic Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Oceans, 14-17 October 1985. Paris, FRANCE, p. 259 in Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Acoustic Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Oceans, Alain Weill, Ed. (ABSTRACT ONLY)
  60. Jones, M., T.M. Georges, and J.P. Riley (1986): The effect of source and sensor height on vertical-slice tomography inversions, Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 13-17 January 1986. Paper number 42E-08, (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  61. Georges, T. M., R. M. Jones, and J. P. Riley (1986): Simulating ocean acoustic tomography measurements with Hamiltonian ray tracing., IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., Vol. OE-11, No. 1, 58-71.
  62. Jones, R. M., J. P. Riley, and T. M. Georges (1986): HARPA -- A versatile three-dimensional Hamiltonian ray-tracing program for acoustic waves in the atmosphere above irregular terrain. NOAA Special Rept , 410 pp., GovDoc No. C55.602:H 18; GPO Item No. 207-C-1; PB87132031, available from NTIS (National Technical Information Service) for $81.50 plus $5 handling fee per order, or at http://www.etl.noaa.gov/et1/infrasound/pubs/harpa.pdf. Errata are on pages 449-450 of the HARPO report. A partial list of the errata are at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/raytracing/programs.htm#2-harpa/errata. Computer program tape: PB87132023. Computer program available at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/raytracing/programs.htm#1-harpa/, ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/raytracing/programs.htm#1-models/, and http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/raytracing/programs.htm#2-atmospheric_models/. Additional general documentation for the ray tracing programs is available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/raytracing/programs.htm.
  63. Jones, R. M., T. M. Georges, and J. P. Riley (1986): Measured ionospheric distortion of HF ground-backscatter spectra. IEEE Trans on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. AP-34, No. 4, 563-568.
  64. Hooke, Wm. H., and R. M. Jones (1986): Dissipative waves excited by gravity-wave encounters with the stably-stratified planetary boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., vol. 43, no. 19, 2048-2060. Reprint available at https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0469%281986%29043%3C2048%3ADWEBGW%3E2.0.CO%3B2.
  65. Jones, R. M., J. P. Riley, and T. M. Georges (1986): HARPO - A versatile three-dimensional Hamiltonian ray-tracing program for acoustic waves in an ocean with irregular bottom. NOAA Special Report. 455 pp., GovDoc No. C55.602:H 23; GPO Item No. 0207-C-01; PB87172573, available from NTIS (National Technical Information Service) for $86.50 plus $5 handling fee per order, or at http://www.etl.noaa.gov/et1/infrasound/pubs/harpo.pdf. Errata are on pages 16-18 of the PC HARPO report and are also at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/raytracing/programs.htm#1-harpo/errata. Additional errata are at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/raytracing/programs.htm#2-harpo/errata. Entry point documentation available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/raytracing/programs.htm#2-harpo/. Computer program tape: PB87171963. Computer program available at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/raytracing/programs.htm#1-harpo/, ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/raytracing/programs.htm#1-nharpo/, and ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/raytracing/programs.htm#1-models/. Additional general documentation for the ray tracing programs is available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/raytracing/programs.htm.
  66. Jones, R. M., T. M. Georges, and J. P. Riley (1986): Inverting vertical-slice tomography measurements for asymmetric ocean sound-speed profiles. Deep-Sea Research, vol. 33, No. 5, 601-619.
  67. Jones, R. M., and W. H. Hooke (1986): The perturbed structure of the neutral atmospheric boundary layer over irregular terrain. Part I. Model Formulation. Boundary Layer Meteorology, Vol. 36, 395-416.
  68. Jones, R. M., and W. H. Hooke (1986): The perturbed structure of the neutral atmospheric boundary layer over irregular terrain. Part II. Model Calculations. Boundary Layer Meteorology, Vol. 37, 107-127. The computer programs used to perform the calculations presented in this paper are available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/boundary_layer/.
  69. Howard, A. Q., R. M. Jones, and J. I. Simon (1986): Creeping ray analysis of resonance for prolate spheroid. 27 pp. June 1986. University of Arizona Department of Electrical Engineering, Tucson. ADA2098317.
  70. Jones, R. M., T. M. Georges, and J. P. Riley (1986): Inverting vertical-slice tomography measurements in an asymmetric ocean sound channel - dealing with missing pulses. AGU Fall Meeting, Dec 8-12, 1986, San Francisco, CA. EOS Trans. AGU, 67(44), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract O32A-110, p. 1039. (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  71. Jones, R. M., T. M. Georges, and J. P. Riley (1987): Indicators of horizontal gradients in vertical slice ocean acoustic tomography, p. 298 in Proceedings of the Internationall Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Proces-Verbaux, No. 17, XIX General Assembly at Vancouver, Canada, 9-22 August, 1987. (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  72. Georges, T. M., D. R. Palmer, R. M. Jones, and J. P. Riley (1988): A survey of acoustic techniques for monitoring El Nino NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-149, 58 pp. PB88157615.
  73. Georges, T. M., D. R. Palmer, R. M. Jones, and J. P. Riley (1988): Simulating acoustic techniques for monitoring El Nino, paper 4 in Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Oceans (Proceedings of a joint conference of 4th Symposium of the International Society of Acoustic Remote Sensing and 2nd Australian Conference on the Physics of Remote Sensing of Atmosphere and Ocean), 16-24 February 1988, Australian Defense Force Academy, Canberra, Australia, 6 pages, proceedings pages not numbered.
  74. Georges, T. M., R. M. Jones, and J. P. Riley (1988): Computing three-dimensional acoustic ray paths through inhomogeneous oceans and atmospheres, IMACS World Congress on Scientific Computations, 18-22 July, 1988, Paris, France.
  75. Palmer, D. R., T. M. Georges, and R. M. Jones (1988): New techniques for investigating the properties of chaotic ray paths, 116th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Second Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan), 14-18 November 1988, Honolulu, Hawaii. J. Acoust. Soc. of Am., vol. 84 (S1), S91(A). (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  76. Georges, T. M., D. R. Palmer, R. M. Jones, and J. P. Riley (1988): A survey of acoustic techniques for monitoring El Nino, 116th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Second Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan), 14-18 November 1988, Honolulu, Hawaii. J. Acoust. Soc. of Am., vol. 84 (S1), S91-2(A). (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  77. Weickmann, A. M., J. P. Riley, T. M. Georges, and R. M. Jones (1989): EIGEN -- A program to compute eigenrays from HARPA/HARPO raysets. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-160. PB89165781. Computer program available at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/raytracing/programs.htm#1-eigen/.
  78. Jones, R. M. and T. M. Georges (1990): Interpreting ocean acoustic tomography measurements. AGU - ASLO 1990 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 12-16 February, 1990, Hyatt Regency in New Orleans, LA. EOS Trans. AGU, 71(2), Ocean Sciences Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS11G-08, p. 74, January 9, 1990. (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  79. Palmer, D. R., T. M. Georges, and R. M. Jones (1990): Chaos in underwater acoustics, pp. 210-215 in Acoustic remote sensing -- Proc of Fifth International Symposium on Acoustic Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Oceans, Feb 6-9, 1990, New Delhi, India, S. P. Singal, Ed., Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi.
  80. Jones, R. M., T. M. Georges, Lloyd Nesbitt, Raja Tallamraju, and Ann Weickmann (1990): Vertical-slice ocean-acoustic tomography Extending Abel inversion to non-axial sources. Proc. First French Conference on Acoustics, Lyons, France, 10-13 April 1990. Published in Colloque de Physique, 51, pages C2-1013 through C2-1016, February 1990.
  81. Jones, R. M., T. M. Georges, Lloyd Nesbitt, Raja Tallamraju, and Ann Weickmann (1990): Vertical-slice ocean-acoustic tomography inversion -converting multi-loop measurements to single-loop data, pp. 239-244 in Acoustic remote sensing -- Proc of Fifth International Symposium on Acoustic Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Oceans, Feb 6-9, 1990, New Delhi, India, S. P. Singal, Ed., Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi.
  82. Palmer, D. R., T. M. Georges, and R. M. Jones (1990): Chaotic ray paths in underwater acoustics. Preprints, First French Conference on Acoustics, Lyons, France, April 1990. Published in Colloque de Physique, 51, pages C2-965 through C2-968, February 1990.
  83. Palmer, D. R., L. M. Lawson, T. M. Georges, and R. M. Jones (1990): Chaos and acoustic remote sensing in the straits of Florida. SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems, 7-10 May 1990, Marriott Hotel, Orlando, FL. (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  84. Georges, T. M., R. M. Jones, and R. S. Lawrence (1990): A PC version of the HARPO ocean-acoustic ray-tracing program. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-180, 18 pp. PB93163202. + disk (PB93504934). Computer program available at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/raytracing/programs.htm#1-pcharpo/ and ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/raytracing/programs.htm#1-models/. Additional general documentation for the ray tracing programs is available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/raytracing/programs.htm.
  85. Palmer, D. R., T. M. Georges, and R. M. Jones (1990): Classical chaos and the sensitivity of the acoustic field to small-scale ocean structure, pp. 8-11 in Proceedings of the IMACS 1st Int'l Conference on Computational Physics, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, June 11-15, 1990, Eds. Karl Gustafson & Walter Wyss (Also published in Computational Physics Commun).
  86. Palmer, D. R., T. M. Georges, and R. M. Jones (1990): Acoustic remote sensing in the Straits of Florida, presented at the 120th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 26-30 November 1990, San Diego, California, J. Acoustical Society of America, 88, Supplement 1, Paper No. 6OC7, Fall 1990, p. S118.
  87. Jones, R. M., and W. H. Hooke (1991): Energy loss from internal waves by coupling to dissipative waves in the thermocline, p. 32, preprints, The Oceanography Society Second Scientific Meeting, March 24-28, 1991, St. Petersburg, FL. Paper No. T1.MI.01, (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  88. Harlan, J. A., T. M. Georges, and R. M. Jones (1991): PROFILE - a program for generating profiles from HARPO/HARPA environmental models. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-198 (April 1991). PB91208710. Computer program available at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/raytracing/programs.htm#1-profile/.
  89. Palmer, D. R., T. M. Georges, and R. M. Jones (1991): Classical chaos and the sensitivity of the acoustic field to small-scale ocean structure. Computer Physics Communications, vol. 65, 219-223.
  90. Jones, R. M., and T. M. Georges (1991): Non-perturbative ocean acoustic tomography inversion. Proceedings of the Third IMACS Symposium on Computational Acoustics, 26-28 June, 1991, Cambridge, MA. (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  91. Jones, R. M. and T. M. Georges (1991): HARPX - a program to extend HARPO or HARPA ray paths in horizontally uniform media. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-201. 43 pp. (June 1991). PB92169903.
  92. Jones, R. M., J. M. Wilczak, and T. M. Georges (1991): Limits to extending forecasts by increasing the density of observation stations. 1991 AGU Fall Meeting, Dec 9-13, 1991, San Francisco, CA. EOS Trans. AGU, 72(44), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A32C-5, p. 92, October 29, 1991. (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  93. Harlan, J. A., R. M. Jones, and T. M. Georges (1991): PSGRAPH - A plotting program for PC-HARPO, PROFILE, COMPLT and EIGEN. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-203 (July 1991). PB92169911. Computer program available at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/raytracing/programs.htm#1-psgraph/.
  94. Jones, R. M., and W. H. Hooke (1991): Dissipative waves excited by internal waves in the thermocline - phase-integral calculation of coupling. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-210. NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO, 43 pp. PB92123918. (Available from the National Technical Information Service, 5285 Port Royal Rd., Springfield, VA 22161) (September 1991).
  95. Jones, R. M., T. M. Georges, L. Nesbitt, and A. Weickmann (1991): Ocean-acoustic tomography inversion in the adiabatic-invariant approximation. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-217. PB92140466.
  96. Harlan, J. A., T. M. Georges, and R. M. Jones (1992): CONPLT - A program to generate contours from HARPO/HARPA environmental models. NOAA Tech Memo ERL WPL-221. PB92218544. Computer program available at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/raytracing/programs.htm#1-conplt/.
  97. Jones, R. M., T. M. Georges and Laura Ehret (1992): Test of nonperturbative ocean acoustic tomography inversion. 124th Meeting of Acoustical Society of America, October 31 to November 4, 1992, Fairmont Hotel, New Orleans, LA., J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 92(4), pt. 2, Abstract 2pAO3, Oct. 1992, p. 2325. (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  98. Jones, R. M., J. M. Wilczak, and T. M. Georges (1993): Dependence of forecast limits on the spatial resolution of the measurements used to initialize a forecast model. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Vol. 2 (New Series) Nr. 5, 244-245.
  99. Jones, R. M., E. C. Shang, and T. M. Georges (1993): Non perturbative modal tomography inversion. Part I: Theory. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 94, no. 4, 2296-2302.
  100. Jones, M. (1993): Quantum selection of a classical cosmology (The origin of a mechanism for Mach's principle in quantum cosmology). Conference on Mach's Principle: From Newton's Bucket to Quantum Gravity, Tübingen, Germany, July 26 - 30, 1993.
  101. Jones, R. M. (1994): Nonperturbative inversion of acoustic pulse propagation in a 1000-km vertical slice in the Pacific Ocean. AGU Ocean Sciences 94 meeting, San Diego, CA, 21-25 February 1994. EOS Trans. AGU, 75(3), Ocean Sciences Meet. Suppl., Abstract O32E-6, p. 132, January 18, 1994. (ABSTRACT ONLY).
  102. Jones, R. M., and T. M. Georges (1994): Nonperturbative ocean acoustic tomography inversion. J. Acoust. Soc., vol. 96, no. 1, 439-451. The computer programs used to make the calculations presented in this paper are available at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/tomography/.
  103. Jones, R. M., B. M. Howe, J. A. Mercer, R. C. Spindel, and T. M. Georges. Nonperturbative ocean acoustic tomography inversion of 1000-km pulse propagation in the Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 96(5):3054-3063 (1994). The computer programs used to make the calculations presented in this paper are available at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/tomography/. Reprints are available at http://www.ore.hawaii.edu/OE/Prof.Howe_PDF/1994, Jones, Nonperturbative ocean acoustic tomography, Acoust. Soc. Am..pdf.
  104. Nesbitt, L., and R. M. Jones. A C Program for generating publication-quality plots. NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL ETL-242, 160 pp. + disk (1994). Computer program available at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/tomography/.
  105. Nesbitt, L., and R. M. Jones. A FORTRAN Program for performing nonperturbative ocean acoustic tomography inversion. NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL ETL-243, 165 pp. + disk (1994). Computer program available at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/tomography/.
  106. Weickmann, A. M., and R. M. Jones. A FORTRAN program for performing ABEL transforms. NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL ETL-244, 158 pp. + disk (1994). Computer program available at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/tomography/.
  107. Nesbitt, L., and R. M. Jones. A FORTRAN program to generate comparison data to test tomography inversion programs. NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL ETL-245, 63 pp. + disk (1994). Computer program available at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/tomography/.
  108. Jones, R. M. The dispersion relation for atmospheric and oceanic internal waves, pp. 109-110 in Proceedings, 10th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Waves and Stability, Big Sky, MT, June 5-9, 1995. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, (1995).
  109. Jones, R. M. On using ambient internal waves to monitor Brunt-Vaisala frequency. Journal of Geophysical Research 100(C6):11,005-11,011 (1995).
  110. Shang, E. C., Y. Y. Wang, R. M. Jones, and T. M. Georges. Nonperturbative modal tomography inversion. Part II. Numerical simulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 98(1):560-569 (1995).
  111. Jones, R. M. (1996): Three dimensional ray tracing in the atmosphere, pp. 307-327 in THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE, Editors W. Dieminger, G. Hartmann, and R. Leitinger, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg 1996, 1014 pages. Errata are at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/pubs/errata2.htm
  112. Jones, R. M. (1996): How to make the best use of three-dimensional Hamiltonian acoustic ray tracing by avoiding modeling artifacts, pp. 85-93 in Theoretical and Computational Acoustics '95; Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 21-25 Aug 1995, (Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics), edited by Ding Lee, Yih-Hsing Pao, Martin H. Schultz, and Yu-Chiung Teng, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 1996.
  113. Jones, R. Michael (1997): Range-average inversions in ocean acoustic tomography, Chapter 21 (pp. 476-536) in "Acoustic Remote Sensing and Applications" edited by S. P. Singal, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York; Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, 1997, 585 pages. Errata are at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/pubs/errata1.htm. The computer programs used to make the calculations presented in this chapter are available at ftp://ftp.etl.noaa.gov/et1/tomography/.
  114. Jones, R. Michael, Dispersion relation for acoustic-gravity waves in a baroclinic fluid, AGU Fall Meeting, Dec 6-10, 1998, San Francisco, CA. EOS Trans. AGU, 79(45), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A21A-30, p. F117. The abstract is available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/gravity_wave/agu98.html.
  115. Jones, R. Michael, The dispersion relation for internal gravity waves including baroclinicity, vorticity, and strain, AGU Fall Meeting, Dec 15-19, 2000, San Francisco, CA. EOS Trans. AGU, 81(48), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract NG62D-17, p. F569, 2000. The abstract is available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/gravity_wave/agu00.html. The errata are available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/pubs/errata6.htm.
  116. Jones, R. Michael The dispersion relation for internal acoustic-gravity waves in a baroclinic fluid. Physics of Fluids, Vol. 13, No. 5, 1274-1280, May 2001. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pof2/13/5/10.1063/1.1359419. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pof2/13/5/10.1063/1.1359419?aemail=author. The errata are at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/pubs/errata9.pdf.
  117. Jones, R. Michael, The dispersion relation for acoustic-gravity waves including baroclinicity, vorticity, and strain, AGU Spring Meeting, May 29-June 2, 2001, Boston, MA. EOS Trans. AGU, 82(20), Spring Meet. Suppl., Abstract A42A-03, pp. S47-S48. The abstract is available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/gravity_wave/agu01.html.
  118. Jones, R. Michael, Reflection heights of LF radio waves in the ionospheric D-region, URSI National Radio Science Meeting, January 9-12, 2002, Boulder, Colorado. Summary on page 274 of the abstracts volume and at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/URSI-2002/a/ursi02a.html.
  119. Jones, R. Michael, D-region electron-density profiles from LF reflection coefficient measurements, URSI National Radio Science Meeting, January 9-12, 2002, Boulder, Colorado. Summary on page 275 of the abstracts volume and at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/URSI-2002/b/ursi02b.html.
  120. Jones, R. Michael, Imaginary part of the group refractive index, URSI National Radio Science Meeting, January 9-12, 2002, Boulder, Colorado. Summary on page 97 of the abstracts volume and at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/URSI-2002/c/ursi02c.html.
  121. Jones, R. Michael, The criteria for a solution of the field equations to be a classical limit of a quantum cosmology, presented at the International Conference on Theoretical Physics, Paris, France, 22-27 July 2002. http://www-spht.cea.fr/th2002/abstracts/node143.html, pp. 195-196 in Book of abstracts, TH-2002, edited by Daniel Iagolnitzer, Paolo Ribeca, and Jean Zinn-Justin, 398 pages.
  122. Balsley, B., D. Fritts, R. Frehlich, R. M. Jones, S. Vadas, and R. Coulter, Up-gully flow in the great plains region: A mechanism for perturbing the nighttime lower atmosphere, Geophysical Research Letters, 29(19), 1931, doi:10.1029/2002GL015435, 2002.
  123. Balsley, Ben B., R. Michael Jones, G. Stossmeister, Rod G. Frehlich, and Richard L. Coulter, Regions of persistent intense turbulence in the residual layer arising from aircraft engine exhaust during CASES-99, Proceedings, 16th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, available at http://ams.confex.com/ams/BLTAIRSE/techprogram/meeting_BLTAIRSE.htm , Portland, ME, 9-13 August 2004. Abstract and paper 10.2 available at http://ams.confex.com/ams/BLTAIRSE/techprogram/paper_78030.htm
  124. Meillier, Yannick, Rod G. Frehlich, Ben B. Balsley, and R. Michael Jones, Small-scale turbulence modulation by ducted gravity waves above the nocturnal boundary layer, Proceedings, 16th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence available at http://ams.confex.com/ams/BLTAIRSE/techprogram/meeting_BLTAIRSE.htm , Portland, ME, 9-13 August 2004. Abstract and paper 7.6 available at http://ams.confex.com/ams/BLTAIRSE/techprogram/paper_78299.htm . Paper also available at: http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/78299.pdf.
  125. Jones R. Michael, Emily S. Gu, and A. J. Bedard, Jr. (2004). Infrasonic Atmospheric Propagation Studies Using a 3-D Ray Trace Model, Proceedings, 22nd Conference on Severe Local Storms abailable at http://ams.confex.com/ams/11aram22sls/techprogram/meeting_11aram22sls.htm , 4-8 October 2004, Hyannis, MA, Sponsored by the Amer. Meteorol. Soc., Boston, MA. Abstract and paper p2.9 availabe at http://ams.confex.com/ams/11aram22sls/techprogram/paper_81665.htm
  126. Bedard A. J. Jr., B. W. Bartram, B. Entwistle, J. Golden, S. Hodanish, R. M. Jones, R. T. Nishiyama, A. N. Keane, L. Mooney, M. Nicholls, E. J. Szoke, E. Thaler, and D. C. Welsh, Overview of the ISNet data set and conclusions and recommendations from a March 2004 workshop to review ISNet data. Poster presentation in Hazard Mitigation, Societal Impacts, and Warnings (provides a summary of the 2003 ISNet operations and data). Proceedings, 22nd Conference on Severe Local Storms available at http://ams.confex.com/ams/11aram22sls/techprogram/meeting_11aram22sls.htm , 4-8 October 2004, Hyannis, MA, Sponsored by the Amer. Meteorol. Soc., Boston, MA. Abstract and paper p2.8 available at http://ams.confex.com/ams/11aram22sls/techprogram/paper_81666.htm
  127. Jones, R. Michael, A general dispersion relation for internal gravity waves in the atmosphere or ocean, including baroclinicity, vorticity, and rate of strain, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D22106, doi:10.1029/2004JD005654, November 2005. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004JD005654/full. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004JD005654/pdf. The errata are at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/pubs/errata7.pdf.
  128. Jones, R. Michael, Minimum and maximum propagation frequencies for internal gravity waves, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D06109, doi:10.1029/2005JD006189, March 2006. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2005JD006189/full. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2005JD006189/pdf. The errata are at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/pubs/errata8.pdf.
  129. Meillier, Y. P., R. G. Frehlich, R. M. Jones, and B. B. Balsley, Modulation of small-scale turbulence by ducted gravity waves in the nocturnal boundary layer, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 65 (4) 1414-1427, 2008.
  130. Jones, R. Michael, The imaginary part of the group refractive index, unpublished manuscript, available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/group/aug07.pdf.
  131. Jones, R. Michael and Alfred J. Bedard Jr, Effects of Vortices on Sound Propagation, Proceedings of the ASME 2009 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, November 13-19, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA. Paper available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/raytracing/Publish/2009/Final Vortex-raytrace Reform.pdf.
  132. Bedard, Alfred J. Jr., and R. Michael Jones, Infrasonic ray tracing applied to mesoscale atmospheric structures: Refraction by hurricanes, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 134 (5), November 2013, 3446-3451, doi:10.1121/1.4823802. http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa/134/5/10.1121/1.4823802?aemail=author.
  133. Jones, R. Michael, Quantum Gravity and Mach's Principle: resolving the inconsistency between General Relativity and quantum theory by considering the interaction of local physics and distant matter, unpublished manuscript, available at http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/physics/Quantum%20Gravity%20and%20Machs%20Principle%202018.pdf.
  134. Jones, R. Michael, and Alfred J. Bedard Jr., Infrasonic ray tracing applied to small-scale atmospheric structures: Thermal Plumes and Updrafts/Downdrafts, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 137 (2), February 2015, 625-632, doi:10.1121/1.4906175. http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa/137/2/10.1121/1.4906175?aemail=author.
  135. Zhao, Jian, Xinzhao Chu, Cao Chen, Xian Lu, Weichun Fong, Zhibin Yu, R. Michael Jones, Brendan R. Roberts, Andreas Dörnbrack, Lidar observations of stratospheric gravity waves from 2011 to 2015 at McMurdo (77.84° S, 166.69° E), Antarctica: 1. Vertical wavelengths, periods, and frequency and vertical wavenumber spectra, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122 (10), 5041-5062, First published: 20 April 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016JD026368.
  136. Jones, R. Michael, Lev A. Ostrovsky, and Alfred J. Bedard Jr., Ionospheric effects of magneto-acoustic-gravity waves: Dispersion relation, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (2017), 159, 7-22. published 17 April 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2017.04.004.
    http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/raytracing/Publish/MagnetoAcousticGravityWaveFigures/1-s2.0-S1364682616303406-main.pdf.
  137. Xinzhao Chu, Jian Zhao, Xian Lu, V. Lynn Harvey, R. Michael Jones, Erich Becker, Cao Chen, Weichun Fong, Zhibin Yu, Brendan R. Roberts, Andreas Dörnbrack, Lidar observations of stratospheric gravity waves from 2011 to 2015 at McMurdo (77.84° S, 166.69° E), Antarctica: 2. Potential energy densities, lognormal distributions, and seasonal variations, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123 (15), August 2018, 7910-7934, First published online: 25 July 2018. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JD027386.
  138. Jones, R. Michael, and Alfred J. Bedard Jr., Atmospheric Gravity-wave ray tracing: ordinary and extraordinary waves, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 179, 342-357, 2018. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364682618303274.
    http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/raytracing/Publish/GravityWavesJASTP/1-s2.0-S1364682618303274-main.pdf.
  139. Jones, R. Michael, The rotation problem, General Relativity and Gravitation, volume 52, issue 5, article 45, doi: 10.1007/s10714-020-02696-w, May 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-020-02696-w. Preprint available at: https://arXiv.org/abs/1710.07720. Readable PDF of article available at: https://rdcu.be/b3Z0G. Corrected version of Table 4 available at: http://cires.colorado.edu/~mjones/physics/Table4.pdf. Published correction at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-020-02711-0. Reference [52] url in published version should be arXiv.org/abs/1710.07720v1

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