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• Martin Siderius, Heechun Song, Peter Gerstoft, William Hodgkiss, Paul Hursky, Chris Harrison (2010), Adaptive passive fathometer processing, J Acoust. Soc. Am, submitted,
• Jian Zhang,  Peter Gerstoft,  Peter M. Shearer (2010), Resolving P-wave travel-time anomalies using seismic array observations of oceanic storms, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, submitted.
• Yardim, Caglar, Peter Gerstoft and WS Hodgkiss (2009), Particle filter source tracking in an uncertain environment, J Acoust. Soc. Am, submitted (PDF)
• Cheolsoo Park, Peter Gerstoft, Woojae Seong, and WS Hodgkiss (2010) Geoacoustic Inversion Using Back-propagation, IEEE Oceanic Eng, in press (PDF)
• Laura A. Brooks, John Townend, Peter Gerstoft, Steve Bannister, and Lionel Carter (2009), Fundamental and higher-mode Rayleigh wave characteristics of ambient seismic noise in New Zealand, Geophys. Res. Lett., in press,0.1029/2009GL040434   (PDF)
  
• Douvenot, Remi, Vincent Fabbro, Peter Gerstoft, C Bourlier, and J Saillard (2009), Real time refractivity from clutter using a best fit approach improved with physical information, Radio Science, in press doi:10.1029/2009RS004137, (PDF)
  
  

2009

• Bromirski, Peter D, and Peter Gerstoft (2009), Dominant source regions of the Earth's hum, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L13303,doi:10.1029/2009GL038903 (PDF)
  [highlighted in SIO Explorations, AGU Editors' Highlight, National Geographic, Nature Geosciences, PhysicsWorld.com, Wired, Softpedia, Daily Galaxy, French Futura-Sciences, German Welt der Physik, Spanish NeoFronteras, Spanish Ciencia al Dia, Spanish La flecha, Indian Deccan Chronicle, Malaysian Sun, India New Kerala, Thailand Thaindian. Chinese News.cn. Chinapost.com DoomDaily]
  
• Brooks, Laura A, Peter Gerstoft (2009), Green’s function approximation from cross-correlation of active sources in the ocean, J Acoust. Soc. Am., 126, 46-55.(PDF)
• Brooks, Laura A, Peter Gerstoft (2009), Green's function approximation from cross-correlations of 20–100 Hz noise during a tropical storm, J Acoust. Soc. Am 125, 723-734. (PDF)
• Huang, Chen-Fen, Peter Gerstoft and WS Hodgkiss (2009), Statistical estimation of source location in presence of geoacoustic inversion uncertainty, J Acoust. Soc. Am, 125 EL171-EL176. (PDF)
• Jiang, Yongmin, N Ross Chapman, and Peter Gerstoft (2009), Estimation of Marine Sediment Properties Using a Hybrid Differential Evolution Method, IEEE Oceanic Engineering, in press
• Taylor, Steven R., Peter Gerstoft, Michael C. Fehler (2009), Estimating site amplification factors from ambient noise, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L09303, doi:10.1029/2009GL037838. (PDF)
• Traer, James, Peter Gerstoft, H.C. Song, and William S. Hodgkiss(2009), On the sign of the adaptive passive fathometer impulse response, J Acoust. Soc. Am., 126, 1657-1658 (PDF)
  
• Yardim, Caglar, Peter Gerstoft and WS Hodgkiss (2009), Sensitivity analysis and performance estimation of refractivity from clutter, Radio Science, 44, RS1008, doi:10.1029/2008RS003897. (PDF)
• Yardim, Caglar, Peter Gerstoft and WS Hodgkiss (2009), Tracking of geoacoustic parameters using Kalman and particle filters, J Acoust. Soc. Am,125, 746-760. (PDF)
• Zhang, Jian, Peter Gerstoft, and Peter M. Shearer (2009), High-Frequency seismic noise driven by ocean winds, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L39302, doi:10.1029/2009GL037761. (PDF)

2008

• Brooks, Laura A, Peter Gerstoft, and David P Knobles (2008), Multichannel array diagnosis using noise cross-correlation, J Acoust. Soc. Am EL,124,EL203-EL209, DOI:10.1121/1.2960937. (PDF)
  
• Douvenot, Remi, Vincent Fabbro, Peter Gerstoft, C Bourlier, and J Saillard (2008), A duct mapping method using least squares support vector machines, Radio Science,43, RS6005, doi:10.1029/2008RS003842,  (PDF)
  
• Gerstoft, Peter, Peter M Shearer, Nick Harmon, and Jian Zhang, Global P, PP, and PKP wave microseisms observed from distant storms, Geophys. Res. Lett.,  35, L23307, doi:10.1029/2008GL036111. (PDF) (movie Feb 2006) (movie June 2006)
  
• Gerstoft, Peter, WS Hodgkiss, Martin Siderius, Chen-Fen Huang, Chris H Harrison (2008), Passive fathometer processing, J Acoust. Soc. Am, 123, 1297-1305. (PDF)
  
• Harmon, Nick, Peter Gerstoft, CA Rychert, GA Abers, M Salas de la Cruz and KM Fischer (2008), Phase velocities from seismic noise using beamforming and cross correlation in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L19303, doi:10.1029/2008GL035387. (PDF)
  
• Huang, Chen-Fen, Peter Gerstoft and WS Hodgkiss (2008), Effect of ocean sound speed uncertainty on matched-field geoacoustic inversion, J Acoust. Soc. Am, EL162-168 (2008). (PDF)
  
• Jiang, Yongmin, N Ross Chapman, and Peter Gerstoft (2008), Short range travel time geoacoustic inversion with vertical line array, J Acoust. Soc. Am EL,124, EL135-EL140, DOI: 10.1121/1.2963093. (PDF)
  
• Traer, James, Peter Gerstoft, Peter D Bromirski, WS Hodgkiss, and Laura A Brooks (2008), Shallow-water seismo-acoustic noise generation by Tropical Storms Ernesto and Florence, J Acoust. Soc. Am EL, 124, EL170-EL176, DOI:10.1121/1.2968296. (PDF)
• Yardim, Caglar, Peter Gerstoft and WS Hodgkiss (2008),Tracking refractivity from clutter using Kalman and particle filters, IEEE Transaction Antenna and Propagation, 56, 1058-1066, DOI:10.1109/TAP.2008.919205. (PDF)
  

• Brooks, Laura A and Peter Gerstoft (2007), Ocean acoustic interferometry, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 121, 3377-3385, doi:10.1121/1.2723650. (PDF)
  
• Gerstoft, Peter, and Toshiro Tanimoto (2007), A year of microseisms in southern California, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L20304, doi:10.1029/2007GL031091. (PDF)
  
• Goh, Yong Han, P Gerstoft, WS. Hodgkiss, Chen-Fen Huang, Statistical estimation of transmission loss from geoacoustic inversion using a towed array, J. Acoust. Soc. Am,122, 2571-2579, 2007. (PDF)
  
• Huang, Chen-Fen, Peter Gerstoft, and WS Hodgkiss, On the effect error correlation on matched-field geoacoustic inversion, J Acoust. Soc. Am.,121: EL64-EL69, DOI:10.1121/1.2424267, 2007. (PDF)
• Vasudevan, S, RH Anderson, S Kraut, Peter Gerstoft, Lee T. Rogers, and Jeff L. Krolik (2007), Recursive Bayesian electromagnetic refractivity estimation from radar sea clutter, Radio Sci., 42, RS2014, doi:10.1029/2005RS003423. (PDF)
  
• Yardim, Caglar, Peter Gerstoft, and WS. Hodgkiss (2007), Statistical maritime radar duct estimation using hybrid genetic algorithm-Markov chain Monte Carlo method, Radio Sci., 42, RS3014, doi:10.1029/2006RS003561. (PDF)
  
  2006
  Seismic Katrina:
  
• Gerstoft, Peter, Mike C Fehler, and Karim G Sabra, When Katrina hit California, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L17308, doi:10.1029/2006GL027270, 2006. (PDF) [ highligted in  Science;  New Scientist, ASA lay-paper about our observations]
  Seismic noise:
  
• Curtis, Andrew, Peter Gerstoft, Hiroshi Sato, Roel Snieder, Kees Wapenaar. Seismic interferometry - turning noise into Signal. The Leading Edge, Vol 25, 1082-1092, 2006. Received "Honorable Mention"  in TLE. (PDF)
  
• Gerstoft, Peter, Karim G Sabra, Philippe Roux, WA Kuperman, and Mike C Fehler, Green’s functions extraction and surface wave tomography from microseisms in Southern California, Geophysics, 71, SI23-SI31, 2006. (PDF)
  
• Sabra, Karim G, Philippe Roux, Peter Gerstoft, WA Kuperman, and Mike C Fehler, Extracting coherent coda arrivals from cross-correlations of long period seismic waves during the Mount St. Helens 2004 eruption, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L06313, doi:10.1029/2005GL025563, 2006. (PDF)
  Radar:
  
• Yardim, Caglar, Peter Gerstoft, and WS Hodgkiss, Estimation of radio refractivity from radar clutter using Bayesian Monte Carlo analysis, IEEE Transaction Antenna and Propagation, 54,1318- 1327, doi: 10.1109/TAP.2006.872673, 2006. (PDF)
  Ocean Acoustics:
  
• Huang, Chen-Fen, Peter Gerstoft, and WS Hodgkiss, Validation of statistical estimation of transmission loss in the presence of geoacoustic inversion uncertainty, J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 120, 1932-1941, 2006. (PDF)
  
• Thode, Aaron, Peter Gerstoft, WC Burgess, Karim Sabra, Melania Guerra, Dale Stokes, M Noad, and Doug C Cato, A portable matched field processing system using passive acoustic time synchronization, IEEE Oceanic Engineering, 31(3), 696-710 July 2006. (PDF)
  
• Gerstoft, Peter, Chen-Fen Huang, and WS Hodgkiss, Estimation of transmission loss in the presence of geoacoustic inversion uncertainty, IEEE Oceanic Engineering, 31, 299-307, April 2006. (PDF)
  
• Huang, Chen-Fen, Peter Gerstoft, and WS Hodgkiss, Uncertainty analysis in matched-field geoacoustic inversion, J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 119, 197-207, 2006. (PDF)
  
  2005
  Seismic:
  
• Seismic noise can yield maps of Earth's crust, article in Science News 11 June 2005.
  
• Roux, Philippe, Karim G Sabra, Peter Gerstoft, WA Kuperman, and Mike C Fehler, P-waves from cross correlation of seismic noise, AGU Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L19303, doi:10.1029/2005GL023803, 2005. (PDF)
  
• Sabra, Karim G, Peter Gerstoft, Philippe Roux, WA. Kuperman, and Mike C. Fehler, Surface wave tomography from microseisms in Southern California, AGU Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L14311, doi:10.1029/2005GL023155, 2005. (PDF)
  
• Sabra, Karim G, Peter Gerstoft, Philippe Roux, WA. Kuperman, and Mike C. Fehler, Extracting time-domain Green's function estimates from ambient seismic noise, AGU Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L03310, doi:10.1029/2004GL021862, 2005. (PDF)
  Radar:
  
• Rogers, L Ted, Mike Jablecki, and Peter Gerstoft, Posterior distribution of a statistic of propagation loss estimated from radar sea clutter, Radar Science, Vol. 40, RS6005, doi:10.1029/2004RS003112, 2005. (PDF)
  Ocean acoustics:
  
• Park, Cheolsoo, Woojae Seong, and Peter Gerstoft, Geoacoustic inversion in time domain using ship of opportunity noise recorded on a horizontal array, J. Acoust. Soc . Am, 117, pp 1933-1941, 2005. (PDF)
  
  2004
  Radar:
  
• Gerstoft, Peter WS Hodgkiss L Ted Rogers and Mike  Jablecki, Probability distribution of low altitude propagation loss from radar sea-clutter data, Radio Science, 39, RS6006, doi:10.1029/2004/RS003077, 2004. (PDF)
  Ocean Acoustics:
  
• Battle, David, Peter Gerstoft, WS Hodgkiss, WA Kuperman, and Peter L Nielsen, Bayesian model selection applied to self-noise geoacoustic inversion, J. Acoust. Soc . Am, 116, pp 2043-2056, 2004. (PDF) view graphs
  
• Castor, Kaelig, Peter Gerstoft, Philippe Roux, WA Kuperman, and BE McDonald Long range propagation of finite amplitude acoustic waves in an ocean waveguide, J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 116, pp 2004-2010, 2004.(PDF) Poster
  
  2003
  Radar:
  
• Gerstoft, Peter, L Ted Rogers, WS Hodgkiss, and Jeff L Krolik, Inversion for refractivity parameters from radar sea clutter, Radio Science, Vol 38(3),  8053, doi:10.1029/2002RS002640, 2003. (PDF)
  
• Gerstoft, Peter, L Ted Rogers, WS Hodgkiss, and LJ Wagner, Refractivity estimation using multiple elevation angles, IEEE J Oceanic Engineering, 28 (3), 513-525, 2003. (PDF) View graphs
  Ocean Acoustics:
  
• Gerstoft, Peter, WS Hodgkiss, WA Kuperman and Heechun Song, Phenomenological and global optimization inversion, IEEE J Oceanic Engineering, 28 (3), 342-354, July 2003. (PDF)
  
• Park, Cheolsoo, Woojae Seong, Peter Gerstoft, and Martin Siderius, Timedomain geoacoustic inversion of high frequency chirps using a towed system, IEEE J Oceanic Engineering, 28 (3),468-478, July 2003. (PDF)
  
• Battle, David, Peter Gerstoft, WA Kuperman, WS Hodgkiss, and Martin Siderius, Geoacoustic inversion of tow-ship noise via near-field-matched-field processing, IEEE J. Oceanic Engineering, 28(3) , 456-467, 2003. (PDF)  View graphs
  
• Nielsen, Peter L, Martin Siderius, and Peter Gerstoft, Range-dependent geoacoustic inversion: Results from the inversion techniques workshop, IEEE J Oceanic Engineering, 28 (3), 414-423, July 2003. (PDF)
  
• Siderius, Martin, Peter L Nielsen, and Peter Gerstoft, Performance comparison between vertical and horizontal arrays for geoacoustic inversion, IEEE J Oceanic Engineering (3), 424-431, July 2003. (PDF)
  
• Song, HeeChun, WA Kuperman, WS Hodgkiss, Peter Gerstoft, and JS Kim, Null Broadening with Snapshot-deficient Covariance Matrices, IEEE J Oceanic Engineering, 28, 2003. (PDF)
  
• Gerstoft, Peter, WS Hodgkiss, WA Kuperman, Heechun Song, Martin Siderius, and Peter L Nielsen, Adaptive beamforming of a towed array during a turn, IEEE J Oceanic Engineering, 28, 44-54, Jan 2003. (PDF) View graphs,
  
  1998-2002
  
• Siderius, Martin, Peter L Nielsen and Peter Gerstoft, Range-dependent seabed characterization by inversion of acoustic data from a towed receiver array," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 112, pp. 1523-1535, 2002. (PDF)
  
• D'Spain,GL, GL Rovner, Peter Gerstoft, WA Kuperman, and WS Hodgkiss, Determination of waveguide invariance in general environments,  U.S. Navy J. Underwater Acoustics 51(1), 123-142, 2002.
  
• Gerstoft, Peter, Gerald L D'Spain, WA Kuperman, and WS Hodgkiss, Calculating the waveguide invariant by ray-theoretic approaches, TM-468, Marine Physical Laboratory, University of California San Diego, 2001. (PDF)
  
• Christoph F Mecklenbrauker and Peter Gerstoft, Objective functions for ocean acoustic inversion derived by likelihood methods, Journal of Computational Acoustics, 48(2), 259-270, 2000. (PDF)
  
• Peter Gerstoft, Don F Gingras, L Ted Rogers and WS Hodgkiss, Estimation of radio refractivity structure using matched field array processing, IEEE J Antenna and Propagation 48, 345-356, 2000. (PDF) [view graphs]
  
• Peter Gerstoft, Assessment of Hydroacoustic Processing in the CTBT Release One Monitoring Software, International Data Center, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Vienna, Austria, PTS/IDC-10 2000. (PDF)
  view graph. (PDF)
  
• Christoph F Mecklenbrauker, Peter Gerstoft, P.J. Chung, J.F. Bohme, Hypothesis testing for acoustic environmental models using likelihood ratio, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105, 1738--1748, 1999. (PDF)
  
• Peter Gerstoft, CABRILLO 1.0: Acoustic, elastic and poroelastic finite difference modeling, (PDF)
  
• Peter Gerstoft and Christoph F Mecklenbrauker, Ocean acoustic inversion with estimation of a posteriori probability distributions, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 104, 808--819, 1998. (PDF) view graphs
  
• Martin Siderius, Peter Gerstoft and Peter L Nielsen, Broadband geo-acoustic inversion from sparse data using genetic algorithms, Journal of Computational Acoustics 6, 117-134, Oct 1998. (PDF)
  
• Purnima Ratilal, Peter Gerstoft and Joo Thiam Goh, Subspace approach to inversion by genetic algorithms  involving multiple frequencies, Journal of Computational Acoustics 6, 99-115 Oct 1998. (PDF)
  
• Purnima Ratilal, Peter Gerstoft, YK Pong and Joo Thiam Goh, Inversion of pressure data on a vertical array for seafloor geoacoustic properties, Journal of Computational Acoustics, 269-289, Oct 1998. (PDF)
  
  1997.....
  
• Peter Gerstoft, "SAGA Users guide 2.0, an inversion software package," SACLANT Undersea Research Centre, SM-333, La Spezia, Italy, 1997.
  [See the SAGA homepage]. A bound copy is available from SACLANTCEN
  Some view graphs from Matched Field inversion for ocean acoustics and from electromagnetic matched field processing.
  
• DF Gingras, Peter Gerstoft and NL Gerr, Electromagnetic Matched field processing: Basic concepts and Tropospheric simulations, IEEE transaction on antenna and propagation, 45, 1536-1545, October 1997. (PDF)
  
• Joo Thiam Goh, Henrik Schmidt, Peter Gerstoft and W Seong, Benchmarks for validating range-dependent seismo-acoustic propagation codes, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng 22, 226--236, 1997. (PDF)
  
• G Haralabus and Peter Gerstoft, Source localization in shallow water using multi-frequency processing of shot data, SACLANTCEN SR-253, 1996. (PDF)
  
• Jean-Piere Hermand and Peter Gerstoft, Inversion of Broadband multitone acoustic data from the Yellow shark summer experiments, IEEE J Oceanic Eng. 21, 324-346, 1996. (PDF) [view graphs]
  
• Peter Gerstoft and Don F Gingras, Parameter estimation using multi-frequency range-dependent acoustic data in shallow water, J Acoust. Soc. Am. 99, 2839-2850,1996.(PDF) [The array sonar data is available at the IEEE SP server]
  

Orest Diachok, Andrea Caiti, Peter Gerstoft and Henrik Schmidt (Editors), Full field inversion methods in ocean and seismo-acoustics, (Kluwer, 1995). Don F Gingras and Peter Gerstoft, Inversion for geometric and geoacoustic parameters in shallow water: Experimental results, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 3589--3598, 1995. (PDF) Peter Gerstoft, Inversion of acoustic data using a combination of genetic algorithms and the Gauss-Newton approach, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 2181-2191, 1995. (PDF) Peter Gerstoft, Global Inversion by genetic algorithms for both source position and environmental parameters, J. of Computational Acoustics 2, 251-266, 1994. (PDF) Peter Gerstoft, Inversion of seismo-acoustic data using genetic algorithms and a posteriori probability distributions, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 770—782, 1994. (PDF) Peter Gerstoft and Henrik Schmidt, A boundary element approach to ocean seismo-acoustic facet reverberation, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 89, 1629-1642, 1991. (PDF) Peter Gerstoft and Svend O Hansen, A new tubing system for the measurement of fluctuating pressures, J of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol 25(3), 335-354 March 1987. (PDF) Peter Gerstoft and Alan G Davenport, A simplified method for dynamic analysis of a guyed mast, J of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol 23 (1-3): 487-499, 1986. (PDF)

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