Selected Papers (Back to 1991)
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D. A. Rothrock,
D. B. Percival and
M. Wensnahan
(2008),
`The decline in arctic sea-ice thickness: separating the spatial, annual, and
interannual variability in a quarter century of submarine data,'
Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans,
113, C05003, doi:10.1029/2007JC004252.
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A. N. Morabito,
D. B. Percival,
J. D. Sahr,
Z. M. P. Berkowitz
and
L. E. Vertatschitsch
(2008),
`Ricean Parameter Estimation Using Phase Information in Low SNR Environments,'
IEEE Communications Letters
12, no. 4, pp. 244-6.
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G. A. Nichols-Pagel,
D. B. Percival,
P. G. Reinhall and
J. J. Riley
(2008),
`Should Structure Functions Be Used to Estimate Power Laws
in Turbulence? A Comparative Study,'
Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena,
237, no. 5, pp. 665-77.
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D. B. Percival,
D. A. Rothrock,
A. S. Thorndike and
T. Gneiting
(2008),
`The Variance of Mean Sea-Ice Thickness: Effect of Long-Range Dependence,'
Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans,
113, C01004, doi:10.1029/2007JC004391.
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C. Eriksson,
A. Omstedt,
J. E. Overland, D. B. Percival and H. O. Mofjeld
(2007),
`Characterizing the European Sub-Arctic Winter Climate since
1500 Using Ice, Temperature, and Atmospheric Circulation Time Series,'
Journal of Climate,
20, no. 21, pp. 5319-34.
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L. Karlöf,
D. P. Winebrenner
and D. B. Percival (2006),
`How Representative is a Time Series Derived
from a Firn Core? A Study at a Low Accumulation Site
on the Antarctic Plateau,'
Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface,
111, F4, F04001, 11 pages (doi:10.1029/2006JF000552).
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D. B. Percival (2006),
`Spectral Analysis of Clock Noise: A Primer,'
Metrologia,
43, no. 4, pp. S299-S310.
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data for
first and
second clock noise series
used as examples
(headers for
first and
second series)
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T. Gneiting,
H. Sevcíková,
D. B. Percival,
M. Schlather
and
Y. Jiang
(2006),
`Fast and Exact Simulation of Large Gaussian Lattice
Systems in R^2: Exploring the Limits,'
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics,
15, no. 3, pp. 483-501.
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C. R. Cornish,
C. S. Bretherton
and D. B. Percival (2006),
`Maximal Overlap Wavelet Statistical Analysis with Application
to Atmospheric Turbulence,'
Boundary-Layer Meteorology,
119, no. 2, pp. 339-74.
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J. E. Overland, D. B. Percival and H. O. Mofjeld (2006),
`Regime Shifts and Red Noise in the North Pacific,'
Deep-Sea Research I,
53, no. 4, pp. 582-8.
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D. B. Percival (2006),
`Exact Simulation of Complex-Valued Gaussian Stationary Processes
Via Circulant Embedding,'
Signal Processing,
86, no. 7, pp. 1470-6.
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M. Wang, J. E. Overland, D. B. Percival and H. O. Mofjeld (2006),
`Change in the Arctic Influence on Bering Sea Climate
during the Twentieth Century',
International Journal of Climatology,
26, no. 4, pp. 531-9.
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D. B. Percival and W. L. B. Constantine (2006),
`Exact Simulation of Gaussian Time Series from Nonparametric Spectral Estimates
with Application to Bootstrapping,'
Statistics and Computing,
16, no. 1, pp. 25-35.
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P. F. Craigmile,
P. Guttorp
and D. B. Percival (2005),
`Wavelet-Based Parameter Estimation for Polynomial
Contaminated Fractionally Differenced Processes,'
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
53, no. 8, pp. 3151-61.
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P. F. Craigmile
and D. B. Percival (2005),
`Asymptotic Decorrelation of Between-Scale Wavelet Coefficients',
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
51, no. 3, pp. 1039-48.
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D. B. Percival and
D. A. Rothrock
(2005),
`"Eyeballing" Trends in Climate Time Series: A Cautionary Note',
Journal of Climate,
18, no. 6, pp. 886-91.
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R. K. Powers,
Y. Dai,
B. M. Bell,
D. B. Percival and
M. D. Binder
(2005),
`Contributions of the Input Signal and Prior Activation History
to the Discharge Behavior of Rat Motoneurones,'
The Journal of Physiology,
562, no. 3, pp. 707-24.
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J. E. Overland, M. C. Spillane, D. B. Percival, M. Wang
and H. O. Mofjeld (2004),
`Seasonal and Regional Variation of Pan-Arctic Surface Air Temperature
Over the Instrumental Record',
Journal of Climate,
17, no. 17, pp. 3263-82.
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D. B. Percival, M. Wang and J. E. Overland (2004),
`An Introduction to Wavelet Analysis
with Applications to Vegetation Monitoring',
Community Ecology,
5(1), pp. 19-30.
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P. F. Craigmile,
P. Guttorp
and D. B. Percival (2004),
`Trend Assessment in a Long Memory Dependence Model using
the Discrete Wavelet Transform,'
Environmetrics,
15(4), pp. 313-35.
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G. M. Raymond,
D. B. Percival
and
J. B. Bassingthwaighte
(2003),
`The Spectra and Periodograms of Anti-correlated
Discrete Fractional Gaussian Noise,'
Physica A, 322, pp. 169-79.
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D. B. Percival (2003),
`Stochastic Models and Statistical Analysis for Clock Noise,'
Metrologia,
40, no. 3, pp. S289-S304.
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D. Tang,
K. B. Briggs,
K. L. Williams,
D. R. Jackson,
E. I. Thorsos
and D. B. Percival (2002),
`Fine-Scale Volume Heterogeneity Measurements in Sand,'
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering,
27, pp. 546-60.
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B. J Whitcher,
S. D. Byers,
P. Guttorp
and D. B. Percival (2002),
`Testing for Homogeneity of Variance in Time Series:
Long Memory, Wavelets and the Nile River,'
Water Resources Research,
38, no. 5, pp. 10.1029/2001WR000509.
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D. B. Percival, J. E. Overland and H. O. Mofjeld
(2001),
`Interpretation of North Pacific Variability
as a Short- and Long-Memory Process,'
Journal of Climate,
14, no. 24, pp. 4545-59.
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W. L. B. Constantine,
D. B. Percival
and
P. G. Reinhall
(2001),
`Inertial Range Determination for Aerothermal Turbulence
Using Fractionally Differenced Processes and Wavelets,'
Physical Review E,
64, 036301, 12 pages.
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B. J Whitcher,
P. Guttorp
and D. B. Percival (2000),
`Multiscale Detection and Location of Multiple Variance Changes in
the Presence of Long Memory,'
Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation,
68, no. 1, pp. 65-88.
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B. J Whitcher,
P. Guttorp
and D. B. Percival (2000),
`Wavelet Analysis of Covariance with Application to Atmospheric Time Series,'
Journal of Geophysical Research,
105, no. D11, pp. 14,941-62.
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A. Serroukh,
A. T. Walden
and D. B. Percival (2000),
`Statistical Properties and Uses of the Wavelet Variance Estimator
for the Scale Analysis of Time Series,'
Journal of the American Statistical Association,
95, no. 449, pp. 184-96.
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C. A. Greenhall,
D. A. Howe
and D. B. Percival (1999),
`Total Variance, an Estimator of Long-Term Frequency Stability,'
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics,
and Frequency Control,
46, pp. 1183-91.
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S. Sardy,
D. B. Percival,
A. G. Bruce,
H.-Y. Gao and
W. Stuetzle
(1999),
`Wavelet Shrinkage for Unequally Spaced Data,'
Statistics and Computing,
9, pp. 65-75.
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A. T. Walden,
D. B. Percival and
E. J. McCoy (1998),
`Spectrum Estimation by Wavelet Thresholding of Multitaper Estimators,'
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
46, no. 12, pp. 3153-65.
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E. J. McCoy,
A. T. Walden
and D. B. Percival (1998),
`Multitaper Spectral Estimation of Power Law Processes,'
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
46, no. 3, pp. 655-68.
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D. B. Percival and H. O. Mofjeld (1997),
`Analysis of Subtidal Coastal Sea Level Fluctuations Using Wavelets,'
Journal of the American Statistical Association,
92, no. 439, pp. 868-80.
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D. C. Caccia,
D. B. Percival,
M. J. Cannon,
G. M. Raymond and
J. B. Bassingthwaighte (1997),
`Analyzing Exact Fractal Time Series: Evaluating Dispersional Analysis and Rescaled Range Methods,'
Physica A,
246, no. 3-4, pp. 609-32.
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M. J. Cannon, D. B. Percival,
D. C. Caccia,
G. M. Raymond
and
J. B. Bassingthwaighte (1997),
`Evaluating Scaled Windowed Variance Methods for Estimating the Hurst Coefficient of Time Series,'
Physica A,
241, no. 3-4, pp. 606-26.
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J. B. Bassingthwaighte,
D. A. Beard,
D. B. Percival and
G. M. Raymond (1996),
`Fractal Structures and Processes,'
in
Chaos and the Changing Nature of Science and Medicine: An Introduction
(AIP Conference Proceedings, No. 376),
edited by D. E. Herbert, Woodbury, New York: AIP Press, pp. 54-79.
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R. W. Lindsay,
D. B. Percival and
D. A. Rothrock
(1996),
`The Discrete Wavelet Transform and the Scale Analysis
of the Surface Properties of Sea Ice,'
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
34, no. 3, pp. 771-87.
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D. B. Percival (1995),
`On Estimation of the Wavelet Variance,'
Biometrika,
82, no. 3, pp. 619-31.
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D. A. Howe and D. B. Percival (1995),
`Wavelet Variance, Allan Variance, and Leakage,'
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
IM-44, no. 2, pp. 94-7.
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A. T. Walden,
E. J. McCoy
and D. B. Percival (1995),
`The Effective Bandwidth of a Multitaper Spectral Estimator,'
Biometrika,
82, no. 1, pp. 201-14.
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I. R. Joughin,
D. P. Winebrenner
and D. B. Percival (1994),
`Probability Density Functions for Multilook Polarimetric Signatures,'
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
32, no. 3, pp. 562-74.
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A. T. Walden,
E. J. McCoy
and D. B. Percival (1994),
`The Variance of Multitaper Spectrum Estimates
for Real Gaussian Processes,'
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
42, no. 2, pp. 479-82.
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D. B. Percival (1993),
`Three Curious Properties of the Sample Variance
and Autocovariance for Stationary Processes with Unknown Mean,'
The American Statistician,
47, no. 4, pp. 274-6.
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M. C. Gregg,
H. E. Seim and D. B. Percival (1993),
`Statistics of Shear and Turbulent Dissipation Profiles
in Random Internal Wave Fields,'
Journal of Physical Oceanography,
23, no. 8, pp. 1777-99.
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B. M. Bell,
D. B. Percival and
A. T. Walden (1993),
`Calculating Thomson's Spectral Multitapers
by Inverse Iteration,'
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics,
2, no. 1, pp. 119-30.
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I. R. Joughin, D. B. Percival and
D. P. Winebrenner
(1993),
`Maximum Likelihood Estimation of K Distribution Parameters
for SAR Data,'
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
31, no. 5, pp. 989-99.
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J. E. Tillman,
N. C. Johnson,
P. Guttorp
and D. B. Percival (1993),
`The Martian Annual Atmospheric Pressure Cycle:
Years Without Great Dust Storms,'
Journal of Geophysical Research E,
98, no. E6, pp. 10,963-71.
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D. B. Percival (1992),
`Simulating Gaussian Random Processes with Specified Spectra,'
Computing Science and Statistics,
24, pp. 534-8.
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B. M. Bell
and D. B. Percival (1991),
`A Two Step Burg Algorithm,'
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
39, no. 1, pp. 185-9.
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D. B. Percival (1991),
`Characterization of Frequency Stability:
Frequency Domain Estimation of Stability Measures,'
Proceedings of the IEEE,
79, no. 7, pp. 961-72.
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