R. Michael Jones

Journal Publications, as of May 2024

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Jones, R. M. (1984): How edge diffraction couples groundwave modes at a shoreline. Radio Science, vol. 19, no. 4, 959-965.
  7. 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).)
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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/.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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/.
  20. 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.
  21. Jones, R. M. On using ambient internal waves to monitor Brunt-Vaisala frequency. Journal of Geophysical Research 100(C6):11,005-11,011 (1995).
  22. 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).
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. Jones, R. Michael, Minimum and maximum propagation frequencies for internal gravity waves, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D06109, doi:10.1029/2005JD006189, 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. 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
  35. Jones, R. Michael, An approximate application of quantum gravity to the rotation problem, Classical and Quantum Gravity, volume 41, number 8, 085001, doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/ad3083, April 2024. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ad3083. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ad3083.

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