Department of Earth and Environmental Science

John L. Spiesberger

Recent Refereed Publications

Spiesberger, J.L., Comparison of two and three spatial dimensional solutions
of the wave equation at ocean-basin scales in the presence of internal waves,
in press, J. Comput. Acoustics, 2006.

Spiesberger, J.L., Regions that influence acoustic propagation in the sea at
moderate frequencies, and the consequent departures from the ray-acoustic description, in press, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 1842-1850, 2006.

Spiesberger, J.L., Regions where transient signals are influenced between a source and receiver, Waves in Random and Complex Media, 16, 1-21, 2006.

Spiesberger, J.L., Probability distributions for locations of calling animals, receivers, sound speeds, winds, and data from travel time differences,, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 1790-1800 (2005).

Spiesberger, J.L., Geometry of locating sounds from differences in travel time: Isodiachrons, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 116, 3168-3177 (2004).

Also appears in November 15, 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, http://www.vjbio.org. Published by  the American Physical
Society and the American Institute of Physics in cooperation with numerous other societies and publishers.

Spiesberger, J.L., Acoustic identification of a single transmission at 3115 km from a bottom-mounted source at Kauai, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 115, 1497-1504 (2004).

Spiesberger, J.L., Tappert, F., and Jacobson, A.R., Blind prediction of broadband coherence time at basin-scales, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114, 3147-3154 (2003).

Spiesberger, J.L.,  U.S. Navy sources and receivers for studying acoustic propagation and climate change in the ocean, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 114, 2557-2560 (2003).

Huang, E., Dowling, D.R., Whelan, T., and Spiesberger, J., High-sensitivity photoacoustic leak testing, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (2003).

Spiesberger, J.L., and Wahlberg, M., Probability density functions for hyperbolic
and isodiachronic location, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 112, 3046-3052 (2002).

Tappert, F., Spiesberger, J.L., and Wolfson, M. A., Study of a novel
range-dependent propagation effect with application to the axial injection of signals from the Kaneohe source, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 111, 757-762 (2002)

Spiesberger, J. L., Hyperbolic location errors due to insufficient number of receivers, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 109, 3076-3079 (2001).

Spiesberger, J. L., The matched-lag filter:  Detecting broadband multipath signals with auto- and cross-correlation functions, J. Acoust. Soc. Am.  109, 1997-2007 (2001).

Erratum: The matched-lag filter: Detecting broadband multipath signals with auto- and cross-correlation functions [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 1997-2007 (2001)], J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 109, 1696 (2001).

Spiesberger, J.L.,  An updated perspective on basin-scale tomography,
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 109, 1740-1742 (2001).

Spiesberger, J.L., Finding the right cross-correlation peak for locating
sounds in multipath environments with a fourth-moment function, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 108, 1349-1352 (2000).

Wolfson, M. A. and Spiesberger, J. L., Full wave simulation of the forward
scattering of sound in a structured ocean:  A comparison with observations, 
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 106 (3), 1293-1306 (1999).

Spiesberger, J. L.,  Locating animals from their sounds and tomography of the atmosphere: experimental demonstration, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 106, 837-846 (1999).

Jacobson, A. R., and Spiesberger, J. L., Observations of ENSO-induced Rossby Waves in the Northeast Pacific Using in situ Data,  J. Geophys. Res., 103, no. C11, October,  (1998).

Spiesberger, J.L., Linking auto- and cross-correlation functions with correlation equations:   Application to estimating the relative travel times and amplitudes of multipath, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 104(1), 300-312,(1998).

Spiesberger, J.L., Hurlburt, H.E., Johnson, M., Keller, M., Meyers, S., and O'Brien, J.J., Acoustic thermometry data compared with two ocean models: The importance of Rossby waves and ENSO in modifying the ocean interior,  dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 26(4), 209-240, (1998).

Fabrikant, A., Spiesberger, J.L., and Silivra, A., and Hurlburt, H.E., Estimating Climatic Temperature Change in the Ocean with Synthetic Acoustic Apertures,  J. IEEE Ocean Eng. 23(1), 20-25, (1998).

Norris, D.E., Spiesberger, J.L., and Merdes, D.W., Comparison of basin-scale acoustic transmissions with rays and further evidence for a structured thermal field in the northeast Pacific,  J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 103(1), 182-194, (1998).

Spiesberger, J.L., Fabrikant, A., Silivra, A., and Hurlburt, H.E.,  Mapping Climatic Temperature Changes in the Ocean with Acoustic Tomography: Navigational Requirements, J. IEEE Ocean. Eng., 22, No. 1, 128-142, (1997).

Silivra, A., Spiesberger, J.L., and Fabrikant, A., and Hurlburt, H.E., Acoustic tomography at basin-scales and clock errors, J. IEEE Ocean Eng., 22, No. 1, 143-150 (1997).

Premus, V., and Spiesberger, J.L., Can acoustic multipath explain finback B. physalus 20-Hz doublets in shallow water?,  J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 101, 1127-1138 (1997).

Meyers, S.D., Johnson, M.A., Liu, M., O'Brien, J.J., and Spiesberger, J.L.,
Interdecadal variability in a numerical model of the northeast Pacific Ocean. 1970-1989, 26, 2635-2652, J. Phys. Oceanogr., (1996).

Spiesberger, J.L.,  Passive acoustic localization enhanced with tomography and acoustic thermometry in the ocean, J. Marine And Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, 30(3): 147-172 (1997).

Spiesberger, J.L., Identifying crosscorrelation peaks due to multipaths  with application to optimal passive localization of transient signals and tomographic mapping of the environment,  J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 100, 910-917, (1996).

Spiesberger, J.L. and Tappert, F.,  Kaneohe acoustic thermometer further validated with rays over 3700 km and the demise of the idea of axially trapped
energy, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 99, 173-84, (1996).

Draganov, A. and Spiesberger, J., Diffraction and pulse delay in a structured ocean, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 98(1), 1065-1074, (1995).

Tappert, F., Spiesberger, J., and Boden, L., New full-wave approximation
for ocean acoustic travel time predictions,  J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 97, 2771-2782, (1995).

Spiesberger, J.L., Terray, E., and Prada, K., Successful ray modeling of acoustic multipaths over a 3000 km section in the Pacific,  J. Acoust. Soc. Am.,  95, 3654-3657, (1994).

Spiesberger, J. L., Is Del Grosso's algorithm for sound speed in seawater correct?,  J. Acoust. Soc. 93, 2235-2237, (1993). Headrick, R. H., Spiesberger, J. L., and Bushong, P. J., Tidal signals in basin-scale acoustic transmissions, 
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 93, 790-802, (1993).

Spiesberger, J. L., and Bowlin, J. B., A telemetry scheme for ocean acoustic tomography: Real time monitoring,  J. Marine Environmental Engineering, 1(1), 1-22, (1993).

Spiesberger, J. L., and Metzger, K. and Furgerson, J. A., Listening for climatic temperature change in the northeast Pacific: 1983-1989,  J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 92, 384-396 (1992).

Spiesberger, J. L., and Metzger, K., Basin scale ocean monitoring with acoustic thermometers, Oceanography, 5, 92-98, (1992).

Boden, L.,  Bowlin, J., and Spiesberger, J. L., Time domain analysis of normal mode, parabolic, and  eikonal solutions of the wave equation, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 90, 954-958, (1991).

Spiesberger, J. L., and Metzger, K.,A new algorithm for sound speed in seawater, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 89, 2677-2688, (1991).

Spiesberger, J. L., and Metzger, K.,New estimates of sound-speed  in water, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 89, 1697-1700, (1991).
 
Spiesberger, J. L. and Metzger, K., Basin-scale tomography: a  new tool for studying weather and climate,J. Geophys. Res., 96, 4869-  4889, (1991).

Spiesberger, J.L., and Fristrup, K.M., Passive localization of  calling animals and sensing of their acoustic environment using acoustic  tomography, The American Naturalist, 135, 107-153, (1990).
 
Spiesberger, J.L., Remote sensing of western boundary  currents using  acoustic tomography, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 86(1), 346-351, (1989).
 
Spiesberger, J.L., Bushong, P.J., Metzger, K., and  Birdsall, T.G.,  Basin-Scale tomography:  synoptic measurements of a  4000 km length  section in the Pacific, J. Physical  Oceanogr., 19(8), 1073-1090, (1989).
 
Agnon, Y., Malonotte-Rizzoli, P., Cornuelle, B.D., Dony  S. Ko,  Spiesberger, J.L., and Spindel, R.C.,  The 1984 bottom-mounted tomographic  experiment,
 J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 85(5), 1958-1966,  (1989).

Lawrence, W.B. and Spiesberger, J.L., Measurement of a  barotropic  planetary vorticity mode in an eddy-resolving quasi- geostrophic  model  using acoustic tomography, J. Phys. Oceanogr. 19(7), 865-873,  (1989).
 
Spiesberger, J.L., Bushong, P.J., Metzger, K., and Birdsall,  T.G.,  Ocean Acoustic Tomography:  Estimating the acoustic travel time  with  phase, IEEE J. Oceanic Engineering, 14(1), 108-119, (1989).
 
Spiesberger, J.L., Gyre-Scale acoustic tomography:  biases,  iterated  inversions, and numerical methods, J. Geophys. Res. 90, C6, 11,  869-  876, (1985).
 
Spiesberger, J.L., Malanotte-Rizzoli, P. and Welsh, E.B.,  Travel time  and eometry of steep acoustic rays subject to Gulf  Stream  variability, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 78(1), 260-263, (1985).
 
Cornuelle, B., Wunsch, C., Behringer, D., Birdsall, T.,  Brown, M.,  Heinmiller, R., Knox, R., Metzger, K., Munk, W., Spiesberger, J.,  Spindel, R., Webb, D., Worcester, P., Tomographic maps of the ocean  mesoscale-1:  pure acoustics, J. Physical Oceanogr. 15(2), 133-152,   (1985).
 
Malanotte-Rizzoli, P., Spiesberger, J.L., and Chajes, M.,  Gulf Stream  variability for acoustic tomography, Deep-Sea Res., 32(2),  237-250   (1985).
 
Spiesberger, J.L., Ocean acoustic tomography:  travel-time biases,  J.  Acoust. Soc. Am. 77(1), 83-100 (1985).
 
Spiesberger, J.L., Birdsall, T.G., Metzger, K., Knox, R.A.,  Spofford,  C.W., Spindel, R.C., Measurements of Gulf Stream meandering and evidence of seasonal thermocline development using long range acoustic transmissions, J. Phys. Oceanogr. 13, 1836-1846 (1983).
 
Spiesberger, John L. and Worcester, Peter F., Perturbations in  travel  time and ray geometry due to mesoscale disturbances:  a comparison of  exact and approximate calculations, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 74(1),  219-225   (1983).
 
The Ocean Tomography Group:  Behringer, D., Birdsall, T., Brown, M.,  Cornuelle, B., Heinmiller, R., Knox, R., Metzger, K., Munk, W.,  Spiesberger, J., Spindel, R., Webb, D., Worcester, P. and Wunsch, C., A demonstration of ocean acoustic tomography, Nature, 299, No. 5879, 121-125 (1982).
 
Spiesberger, John L. and Worcester, Peter F., Fluctuations of  resolved  acoustic multipaths at long-range in the ocean, J. Acoust. Soc.  Am.  70(2), 565-576 (1981).
 
Munk, W., Zetler, B., Clark, J., Gill S., Porter, D., Spiesberger,  J.  and Spindel, R., Tidal effects on long-range sound  transmission,  J. Geophys. Res. 86(C7), 6399-6410 (1981).
 
Spindel, R.C. and Spiesberger, J.L., Multipath variability due to  the  Gulf Stream, J. Acoust. Soc. Am 69(4), 982-988 (1981).
 
 Spiesberger, John L., Spindel, Robert C. and Metzger, Kurt,  Stability  and identification of ocean acoustic multipaths, J. Acoust.  Soc. Am.  67(6), 2011-2017 (1980).
 
Brown, Michael G., Munk, Walter H., Spiesberger, John L. and  Worcester,  Peter F., Long-range acoustic transmission in the Northwest Atlantic, J. Geophys. Res. 85(C5), 2699-2703 (1980).

Refereed Conference Papers

Spiesberger, J.L., Numerical prediction of coherent integration time at 75 Hz, 0.03 temporal resolution at 3250 km, Proceedings of MTE/IEEE Oceans '06, Boston, MA, pp. 1-4, paper 060323-02, September 2006.

Spiesberger, J.L. and Green, D., Statistical Characterization of Very Low Frequency Communications Channels at Ocean Basin-Scales,  Proceedings of MTE/IEEE Oceans '06, Boston, MA, pp. 1-6, paper 060322-06, September 2006.

Spiesberger, J.L., Detecting multipath signals with the matched-lag filter,
Proceedings 1999  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, March 15-19, Vol. III, 1189-1192, (1999).

Non-refereed Publications

Spiesberger, J.L., Locating where Transient Signals Travel  in Inhomogeneous
Media,   31 Jan 2005, http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0501162

Wahlberg, M., Madsen, P. T., Biuw, M., Heerfordt, A., Lund, A., Mohl, B., and Spiesberger, J. L., Acoustics and diving behaviour of male sperm whales, Rome, 1 Sep (2001).

Freitag, L., Frye, D., and Spiesberger, J.L., The Surface Suspended Acoustic Receiver (SSAR), Sea Technology, 36(2), 43-46, (1995).

Spiesberger, J.L., Interdecadal variability in a numerical model of the northeast Pacific Ocean. 1970-1989, Research Activities in Atmosphere and Ocean Modeling, ed. G.J. Boer, CAS/CSJ Working Group (WMO/ICSU/I0C)
20, (1995)

Spiesberger, J.L., Frye, D.E., O'Brien, J.J., Hurlburt, H., McCaffrey, J., Johnson, M., Leach, M., and Kenny, J.,  Global Acoustic Mapping of Ocean Temperatures (GAMOT), Proc. Second European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, Vol. II, p. 1031-1036, Edited by L. Bjorno, Published by the European Commission, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, ISBN 92-826-8000-2, (1994).

Draganov, A. and Spiesberger, J., Diffraction and pulse delay in a structured ocean,  7th International Symposium on Acoustic Remote Sensing and Associated Techniques of the Atmosphere and Oceans, Boulder ISARS'94,
3-7 October 1994, Editor: W.D. Neff.

Frye, D.E., Freitag, L., Paul, W., Grosenbaugh, M., and Spiesberger, J.L., Surface suspended acoustic receiver (SSAR) for mapping ocean temperatures, Proc. Oceanology International, Brighton, UK, March,  Woods Hole Oceanographic Publication 8636, (1994).

Spiesberger, J.L., Inland Oceanography?, Bulletin of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 62(3), 51-55, (1993).

Spiesberger, J.L., Frye, D., O'Brien, J., Hurlburt, H., McCaffrey, J., Johnson, M.,  and Kenny, J., Global Acoustic Mapping of Ocean Temperatures (GAMOT),
In: OCEANS '93. Engineering in Harmony with Ocean Proceedings (Cat. No.
93CH3341-5).  Proceedings of OCEANS '93, Victoria, BC p. I-253 to I-257, Vol. 1. (1993).\\

Spiesberger, J. L.,  Is it cheaper to map Rossby waves in the global ocean than in the global atmosphere?, J. Marine Environmental Engineering, 1(1), 83-90, (1993).

Slavinsky, M., Bogolubov, B., Alelekov, I., Pigalov, K., Spiesberger, J., and Boutin, P.,  Evaluation of electromagnetic source for ocean climate acoustic thermometry at Lake Seneca, Woods Hole Oceanographic Technical Report, WHOI-93-09, (1993).

Bowlin, J. B., Spiesberger, J. L., Duda, T. F., and Freitag, L. E., Ocean acoustical ray-tracing software RAY, Woods Hole Oceanographic Technical Report, WHOI-93-10, (1993).

Spiesberger, J. L., Frye, D. E., Hurlburt, H. E., Johnson, M., O'Brien, J. J., and Slavinsky, M., Understanding global climate change with ocean acoustic tomography and models, International Information Forum, State Kremlin Palace, Moscow, 23-29 November, Russia, (1992).

Spiesberger, J. L., Listening for climatic temperature change in the ocean, 10-13 March 1992,  Volume II of the Proceedings of the The Oceanology International 92 Conference Proceedings, Spearhead Exhibitions, Ltd., 55-59 Fife Rd., Kingston, Surrey, KT1 1TA, UK., 10-13 March (1992).

Spiesberger, J. L.,  Taking the ocean's temperature with sound, Spring 1992,  Woods Hole Currents, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole,
MA. 02543, (1992).

Spiesberger, J. L., Basin-scale measures of temperature using sound, Inverse Problems, 8, 165-167, (1992).

Spiesberger, J. L., Passive localization of calling animals  and sensing of their acoustic environment using acoustic tomography,  p.9, in New technological developments for field ornithology, Summaries of a  workshop held in conjunction with the 107th stated meeting of the  American Ornithologists' Union, August, 1989, Pittsburgh, Penn.,  Edited by Bledsoe, Braun, and Thompson.

Spiesberger, J.L. and Spindel, R., Gulf Stream tomography:  a  preliminary experiment, Gulf Stream Conference, U. Rhode Island,  (1985).