Refereed Papers (2001 to Present)

  1. D. B. Percival, D. W. Denbo, E. Gica, P. Y. Huang, H. O. Mofjeld, M. C. Spillane and V. V. Titov (2017), `Evaluating the Effectiveness of DART Buoy Networks Based on Inundation Forecast Accuracy,' under review for Pure and Applied Geophysics. Download paper in PDF (2,791,857 bytes); Summary

  2. R. Porto, P. Morettin, D. Percival and E. Aubin (2016), `Wavelet Shrinkage for Regression Models with Random Design and Correlated Errors,' Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, 30, no. 4, pp. 614-652.

  3. D. B. Percival (2016), `A Wavelet Perspective on the Allan Variance,' IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 63, no. 4, pp. 538-554.

  4. D. E. Pagendam and D. B. Percival (2015), `Estimating Freshwater Flows From Tidally Affected Hydrographic Data,' Water Resources Reseach, 51, pp. 1619-1634.

  5. D. B. Percival, D. W. Denbo, M. C. Eble, E. Gica, P. Y. Huang, H. O. Mofjeld, M. C. Spillane, V. V. Titov and E. I. Tolkova (2015), `Detiding DART Buoy Data for Real-Time Extraction of Source Coefficients for Operational Tsunami Forecasting,' Pure and Applied Geophysics, 172, no. 6, pp. 1653-1678. Download paper in PDF (813,450 bytes); Summary

  6. K. Thon, M. Geilhufe and D. B. Percival (2015), `A Multiscale Wavelet-Based Test for Isotropy of Random Fields on a Regular Lattice,' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 24, no. 2, pp. 694-708.

  7. M. J. Keim and D. B. Percival (2015), `Assessing Characteristic Scales Using Wavelets,' Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 64, no. 2, 377-393. Download paper in PDF (632,211 bytes); Summary

  8. D. M. Percival, D. B. Percival, D. W. Denbo, E. Gica, P. Y. Huang, H. O. Mofjeld and M. C. Spillane (2014), `Automated Tsunami Source Modeling Using the Sweeping Window Positive Elastic Net,' Journal of the American Statistical Association, 109, no. 506, pp. 491-499.

  9. M. Geilhufe, D. B. Percival and H. L. Stern (2013), `Two-Dimensional Wavelet Variance Estimation with Application to Sea Ice SAR Images,' Computers & Geosciences, 54, pp. 351-360.

  10. T. Gneiting, H. Ševčíková and D. B. Percival (2012), `Estimators of Fractal Dimension: Assessing the Roughness of Time Series and Spatial Data,' Statistical Science, 27, no. 2, pp. 247-277. Download paper in PDF (959,718 bytes); Summary

  11. D. B. Percival and K. L. Senior (2012), `A Wavelet-Based Multiscale Ensemble Time-Scale Algorithm,' IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 59, no. 3, pp. 510-522.

  12. D. Mondal and D. B. Percival (2012), `Wavelet Variance Analysis for Random Fields on a Regular Lattice,' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 21, no. 2, pp. 537-549. Download paper in PDF (2,469,697 bytes); Summary

  13. D. Mondal and D. B. Percival (2012), `M-Estimation of Wavelet Variance,' Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 64, no. 1, pp. 27-53. Download paper in PDF (493,399 bytes); Summary

  14. J. E. Overland, M. Wang, K. R. Wood, D. B. Percival and N. A. Bond (2012), `Recent Bering Sea Warm and Cold Events in a 95-Year Context,' Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 65-70, pp. 6-13.

  15. D. B. Percival, S. M. Lennox, Y.-G. Wang and R. E. Darnell (2011), `Wavelet-Based Multiresolution Analysis of Wivenhoe Dam Water Temperatures,' Water Resources Research, 47, W05552, doi:10.1029/2010WR009657. Download paper in PDF (3,118,170 bytes); Summary

  16. D. B. Percival, D. W. Denbo, M. C. Eble, E. Gica, H. O. Mofjeld, M. C. Spillane, L. Tang and V. V. Titov (2011), `Extraction of tsunami source parameters via inversion of DART buoy data,' Natural Hazards, 58, no. 1, pp. 567-590. Download paper in PDF (585,841 bytes); Summary

  17. D. Mondal and D. B. Percival (2010), `Wavelet Variance Analysis for Gappy Time Series,' Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 62, no. 5, pp. 943-966. Download paper in PDF (344,326 bytes); Summary

  18. A. Y. Kim, C. Marzban, D. B. Percival and W. Stuetzle (2009), `Using Labeled Data to Evaluate Change Detectors in a Multivariate Streaming Environment,' Signal Processing, 89, no. 12, pp. 2529-36. Download paper in PDF (2,467,891 bytes); Summary

  19. 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. Download paper in PDF (2,371,755 bytes); Summary

  20. 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. Download paper in PDF (183,669 bytes); Summary

  21. 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. Download paper in PDF (565,187 bytes); Summary

  22. 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. Download paper in PDF (305,124 bytes); Summary; gappy draft profile (631 values), gappy residual draft profile (631 values) and gap-filled residual draft profile (802 values) used in paper (see Figure 3; note that the paper incorrectly states there are 632 values in the gappy profiles - 631 is the correct count)

  23. 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. Download paper in PDF (1,523,797 bytes); Summary

  24. K. Smith-DiJulio, D. B. Percival, N. F. Woods, E. Y. Tao and E. S. Mitchell (2007), `Hot Flash Severity in Hormone Therapy Users/Nonusers Across the Menopausal Transition,' Maturitas, 58, no. 2, pp. 191-200. PDF file (147,176 bytes) available upon request; summary

  25. N. F. Woods, K. Smith-DiJulio, D. B. Percival, E. Y. Tao, H. J. Taylor and E. S. Mitchell (2007), `Symptoms during the Menopausal Transition and Early Postmenopause and Their Relation to Endocrine Levels over Time: Observations from the Seattle Midlife Women's Health Study,' Journal of Women's Health, 16, no. 5, pp. 667-77. Download paper in PDF (145,999 bytes); summary

  26. 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). Download paper in PDF (478,322 bytes); Summary

  27. D. B. Percival (2006), `Spectral Analysis of Clock Noise: A Primer,' Metrologia, 43, no. 4, pp. S299-S310. Download paper in PDF (412,882 bytes); Summary; data for first and second clock noise series used as examples (headers for first and second series)

  28. 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. Download paper in PDF (393,393 bytes); Summary

  29. 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. Download paper in PDF (2,389,351 bytes); Summary

  30. 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. Download paper in PDF (925,171 bytes); Summary

  31. D. B. Percival (2006), `Exact Simulation of Complex-Valued Gaussian Stationary Processes Via Circulant Embedding,' Signal Processing, 86, no. 7, pp. 1470-6. Download paper in PDF (157,615 bytes); Summary

  32. 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. Download paper in PDF (990,343 bytes); Summary

  33. 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. Download paper in PDF (206,574 bytes); Summary

  34. 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. Download paper in PDF (253,461 bytes); Summary

  35. 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. Download paper in PDF (172,143 bytes); Summary

  36. 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. Download paper in PDF (99,745 bytes); Summary

  37. 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. Download paper in PDF (1,357,882 bytes); Summary

  38. 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. Download paper in PDF (4,422,879 bytes); Summary

  39. 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. Download paper in PDF (189,297 bytes); Summary

  40. 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. Download paper in PDF (376,636 bytes); or PostScript (1,678,320 bytes); Summary

  41. 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. Download paper in PDF (97,342 bytes); Summary

  42. D. B. Percival (2003), `Stochastic Models and Statistical Analysis for Clock Noise,' Metrologia, 40, no. 3, pp. S289-S304. Download paper in PDF (381,264 bytes) or in PostScript (2,528,619 bytes); Summary; errata

  43. 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. Summary

  44. 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. Download paper in PDF (445,355 bytes); Summary

  45. 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. Download paper in PDF; Summary

  46. 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. Download paper in PDF (573,100 bytes); Summary


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