Robert L. Nowack
Recent and Past Publications
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Nowack,
R.L. (2012) A tale of two beams: An elementary overview of Gaussian beams and
Bessel beams, Studia Geophys.
et Geod., 56, 355-372, doi:
10.1007/s11200-011-9054-0.
Bakir, A.C. and R.L. Nowack
(2012) Velocity and attenuation structure of the Tibetan lithosphere beneath
the Hi-CLIMB array from the modeling of Pn
attributes, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 169, 2073-2089, doi:
10.1007/s00024-012-0482-8.
Chen, W.P., S.H. Hung, T.L. Tseng,
M. Brudzinski, Z. Yang and R.L. Nowack
(2012) Rheology of the continental lithosphere:
progress and new perspectives with special reference to project Hi-CLIMB, Gondwana Research,
21, 4-18.
Griffin, J.D., R.L. Nowack, W.P. Chen and T.L. Tseng (2012) Erratum to
"Velocity of the Tibetan Lithosphere: Constraints from P-wave travel times
and regional earthquakes", Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 102, 454-455, doi: 10.1785/0120110247.
Bakir, A.C. and R.L. Nowack
(2012) Modeling seismic attributes of Pn waves using
the spectral-element method, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 169, 1539-1556, doi: 10.1007/s00024-011-0414-z.
Haase J. S., Y. S. Choi and
R. L. Nowack (2011) Liquefaction hazard near the Ohio
River from midwestern scenario earthquakes,
Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, 17, 165-181.
Griffin,
J.D., R.L. Nowack, W.P. Chen and T.L. Tseng (2011)
Velocity structure of the Tibetan lithosphere: Constraints from P-wave travel
times of regional earthquakes, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 101, 1938-1947, doi: 10.1785/0120100229.
Haase, J.A., Y.S. Choi, T.
Bowling and R.L. Nowack (2011) Probabilistic
seismic-hazard assessment including site effects for Evansville Indiana, and
the surrounding region, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 101, 1039-1054, doi:10.1785/0120090322.
Nowack, R.L. (2011) Dynamically focused Gaussian beams for
seismic imaging, Int. J. Geophys., Vol. 2011, Art.
No. 316581, doi:10.1155/2011/316581.
Haase, J.A. and R.L. Nowack
(2011) Earthquake scenario ground motions for the urban area of Evansville,
Indiana, Seism. Res. Lett., 82, 177-187.
Nowack, R.L. and S.M. Kainkaryam
(2011) The Gouy phase anomaly for harmonic and
time-domain paraxial Gaussian beams, Geophys. J.
Int., 184, pp. 965-973.
Haase, J. S., R.L. Nowack, C.H.
Park and J. Hill (2010) Probabilistic
seismic hazard estimates incorporating
site effects - an example from Indiana: Environmental & Engineering
Geoscience, 16, 369-388.
Nowack, R.L. (2010) Seismic interferometry and estimation
of the Green’s function using Gaussian beams, Earthquake Science, 23, 417-424.
Nowack,
R. L., W.P. Chen and T.L. Tseng (2010) Application of Gaussian beam migration
to multi-scale imaging of the lithosphere beneath the Hi-CLIMB array in Tibet,
Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 100, 1743-1754.
Chen, W.P., M. Martin, T.L.
Tseng, R.L. Nowack, S.H. Hung and B.H. Huang (2010)
Shear-wave birefringence and current configuration of converging lithosphere
under Tibet, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 295, 297-304.
Tseng, T.L. W.P.
Chen and R.L. Nowack (2009) Northward thinning of
Tibetan crust revealed by virtual seismic profiles, Geophys.
Res. Lett., 36, 14, doi:10.1029/2009GL038252.
Nowack, R. L., T. Parsons and A. Revil (2009)
Exploring New Frontiers with JGR-Solid Earth,
J. Geophys. Res., 114, B10,
doi:10.1029/2009JB006977.
Dasgupta,
S, R. L. Nowack and S. Mitra
(2009) Deconvolution of three-component teleseismic data from Southern Tibet using the SVA
technique, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 99, 1973-1983.
Nowack, R.L., W.P. Chen, and T.L. Tseng (2009)
Frequency-Dependent Nature of Pn in Western China, 31st
Annual Monitoring Research Review, NNSA, Air Force Research Laboratory, pp.
166-175.
Nowack,
R. L. and C. Li (2009) Methods and Applications of Seismic Tomography, in
Handbook of Signal Processing in Acoustics (eds. D. Havelock, S. Kuwano and M. Vorlander),
Springer-Verlag, pp.1633-1653.
Nowack,
R. L. (2008) Focused Gaussian beams for
seismic imaging, in Expanded Abstracts, 78th Annual Meeting of the
Society of Exploration Geophysicists,
Las Vegas, pp. 2376-2380.
Nowack, R. L., W.P. Chen, and T.L. Tseng (2008)
Frequency-dependent nature of Pn in Western China:
Gaussian beam modeling of data from the Hi-CLIMB experiment, 30th
Annual Monitoring Research Review, NNSA/Air Force Research Laboratory, Volume
1, pp. 180-189.
Nowack,
R.L. (2008) Gaussian beam imaging for converted and surface reflected waves,
Proceedings of the Project Review, Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group, Vol. 1,
(Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN), pp. 120 -128.
Nowack,
R.L. (2008) Frame-based Gaussian beam summation and seismic head waves,
Proceedings of the Project Review, Vol. 1, Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group,
(Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN), pp. 113-119.
Nowack,
R. L. (2008) Focused Gaussian beams for seismic imaging, Proceedings of the
Project Review, Vol. 1, Geo-Mathematical Imaging Group, (Purdue University,
West Lafayette, IN), pp. 129-139.
Dasgupta,
S. and R.L. Nowack (2008) Frequency extrapolation to
enhance the deconvolution of transmitted seismic
waves, J. Geophys. and Eng., 5, 118-127.
Nowack,
R. L., W. P. Chen, U. Kruse and S. Dasgupta (2007)
Imaging offsets in the Moho: synthetic tests using
Gaussian beams with teleseismic waves, Pure and
Applied Geophysics, 164, 1921-1936.
Chen, R., V.P. Drnevich, X. Yu and R.L. Nowack
(2007) Water content measurements with Time Domain Reflectometry
in highly conductive soils using reflections from the soil surface, J. of
Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE,
Vol. 133, pp. 1597-1608.
Dasgupta,
S. and R.L. Nowack (2006) Deconvolution
of three-component teleseismic P-waves using the
autocorrelation of the P to SV scattered waves, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 96, 1827-1835.
Nowack,
R.L. and C. Li (2006) Application of autoregressive extrapolation to the
cross-borehole tomography, Studia Geophysica
et Geodaetica, 50, 337-348.
Nowack,
R.L. S. Dasgupta, G.T. Schuster and J.M. Sheng (2006)
Correlation migration using Gaussian beams of scattered teleseismic
body waves, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., Vol. 96, pp. 1-10.
Nowack,
R.L. and C. Li (2005) Autoregressive extrapolation applied to tomography in the
cross-borehole geometry, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Expanded
Abstracts, Seventy-Fifth Meeting, Houston, pp. 2562-2566.
Yu, X., V. P. Drnevich
and R.L. Nowack (2005) Statistical comparison of
models for the dielectric spectrum of soil mixtures, Proceedings of the
Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental
Problems (SAGEEP), Atlanta, pp. 215-225.
Li, C. and R.L. Nowack (2005) Seismic tomography using travel-time surfaces
for experiments in the laboratory, J. of Geophysics and Engineering, 2,
231-237.
Nowack,
R.L. (2005) Review of “Fundamentals of Seismic Wave Propagation” by C.H. Chapman,
Siam Review, 47, 616-618, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadephia.
Haase, J., R.L. Nowack, C.H.
Park, A. Hunyar,
J. Hill and M. Hamburger (2004) Evaluation of seismic hazard for Indiana, FHWA/IN/JRTP02004/3, Joint Transportation
Research Program, Indiana Department of Transportation, Indianapolis.
Li, C. and R.L. Nowack (2004) Application of autoregressive extrapolation
to seismic tomography, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 94, 1465-1466.
Nowack, R.L.
(2003) Calculation of synthetics seismograms with Gaussian beams, Pure and
Applied Geophysics, 160, 487-507.
Nowack, R.L.,
M.K. Sen, and P.L. Stoffa (2003)
Gaussian beam migration for sparse common-shot data, Society of Exploration
Geophysicists, Expanded Abstracts, Seventy-third Annual Meeting, Tulsa, pp.
1114-1117.
Pride, S.R., (and DOE Working group
including R.L. Nowack) (2003) Permeability dependence of seismic
amplitudes, The Leading Edge, 518-523.
Nowack,
R.L., C. Li and J. Virieux (2003) Inversion of
seismic attributes from the 1996 3-D tomography experiment at Mt.
Vesuvius, Italy,
in The TomoVes Project: Looking Inside Mt. Vesuvius,
(eds. A.Zollo, A. Bobbio,
P. Gasparini, R. Casale and
M. Yeroyanni), CD Book, CUEN Publ., Naples, Italy.
Nowack,
R.L. and S. Stacy (2002) Synthetic
seismograms and wide-angle seismograms attributes from the Gaussian beam and
reflectivity methods for models with interfaces and gradients, Pure and Applied
Geophysics, 159, 1447-1464.
Stacy, S. and R.L. Nowack (2002) Modeling
of wide-angle seismic attributes from shot gather 11 of the Sarex
Experiment, Studia Geophysica
et Geodaetica, 46, 667-690, (In special issue
dedicated to V. Cerveny).
Tomfohrde,
D.A. and R.L. Nowack (2000) Crustal structure beneath
Taiwan using frequency-based inversion of receiver function waveforms, Pure and
Applied Geophysics, 157, 737-764.
Nowack,
R.L., E. Ay, W.-P. Chen and B. Huang (1999) A seismic profile of the upper
mantle along the southwestern edge of the Philippine Sea Plate using
short-period array data, Geophys. J. Int., 136,
171-179.
Nowack,
R.L. and W-P. Chen (1999) Souce-receiver reciprocity and empirical Green’s function
from chemical blasts, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 89, 538-543.
Gasparini,
P., and the TomoVes Working Group (with R.L. Nowack and others) (1998)
Looking inside Mt.
Vesuvius, Trans. Am. Geophys Un., EOS, 79, 229-232.
Nowack, R.L.
(1998) Variable damping in seismic tomography based on ray coverage, Meeting on
Signal Recovery and Synthesis, Optical Society of America, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii,
July 8-12.
Matheney,
M.P. and R.L. Nowack (1998) Seismic attenuation
computed from reflection data and comparison with refraction results, Pure and
Applied Geophysics, 153, 537-559.
Nowack,
R.L. (1998) Applications of generalized inversion in geophysics, in Cornelius Lanczos Collected Published Papers with Commentaries, vol.
V, General Editor, W.R. Davis; Editors, M.T. Chu, P.Dolan,
J.R. McConnell, L.K. Norris, E. Ortiz, R.J. Plemmons,
D. Ridgway, B.K.P. Scaife, W.J. Stewart, and J.W.
York, Jr.; Associate Editors, W.O. Doggett, B.M. Gellai,
and AA. Gsponer, Consulting Editor, A. Prioli, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC,
3-206—3-211.
Nowack,
R.L. (1998) Applications of the FFT in
Geophysics, in Cornelius Lanczos Collected Published
Papers with Commentaries, vol. VI, General Editor, W.R. Davis; Editors, M.T.
Chu, P.Dolan, J.R. McConnell, L.K. Norris, E. Ortiz,
R.J. Plemmons, D. Ridgway, B.K.P. Scaife,
W.J. Stewart, and J.W. York, Jr.; Associate Editors, W.O. Doggett, B.M. Gellai, and AA. Gsponer,
Consulting Editor, A. Prioli, North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, NC, 3-511—3-515.
Nowack,
R.L. and M.P. Matheney (1997) Inversion of body-wave
attributes derived from seismic refraction data, in Inverse Problems in Geophysical Applications, Eds., H.W. Engl, A.K. Louis, W. Rundell,
SIAM Press, 51-64.
Nowack,
R.L. and M.P. Matheney (1997) Inversion of seismic
attributes for velocity and attenuation, Geophys. J.
Int., 128, 689-700.
Matheney,
M.P. and R.L. Nowack (1997) Seismic attribute
inversion for velocity and attenuation structure using data from the Glimpce Lake Superior experiment, J. Geophys.
Res., 102, 9949-9960.
Brudzinski,
M.R., W.-P. Chen, R.L. Nowack and B. Huang
(1997) Variations of P-wave speeds in
the mantle transition zone beneath the Northern Philippine Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 11,815-11,827.
Nowack, R.L. (1997)
Applications of inverse problems to the analysis of refraction and wide-angle
seismic data, in Inverse Problems and Wave Propagation, Eds., G. Chavent, G. Papanicolaou, P.
Sacks and W. Symes, IMA, 90, 395-417.
Matheney,
M.P. and R.L. Nowack (1995) Seismic attenuation
values obtained from instantaneous frequency matching and spectral ratios, Geophys. J. Int., 123, 1-15.
Nowack,
R.L. (1994) Development of the FFT and
Applications in geophysics, Proceedings of the International Lanczos Centenary Conference, Eds. Plemmons,
R.J. and J.W. York, SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 395-397.
van Heijst,
H.J., R. Snieder and R.L. Nowack
(1994) Resolving a low velocity zone
with surface wave data, Geophys. J. Int., 118,
333-343.
Nowack,
R.L. and L.W. Braile (1993) Refraction and wide-angle
reflection tomography: theory and results, in Seismic Tomography: Theory and
Practice, Eds. Iyer, H.M. and K. Hirahara,
Chapman and Hall Publ., London, pp. 733-763.
Lutter, W.J.,
A.M. Trehu and R.L. Nowack
(1993) Application of 2-D travel-time inversion of seismic refraction data to
the mid-continent rift beneath Lake Superior, Geophys.
Res. Lett., 20, 615-618.
Erdogan,
N. and R.L. Nowack (1993) Slant stack analysis for one dimensional
upper mantle structure using short period data from MAJO, Pure and Applied
Geophysics, 141, 1-24.
Nowack, R.L.
(1992) Wavefronts
and solutions of the Eikonal equation, Geophys. J. Int., 110, 55-62.
Nowack,
R.L. and I. Psencik (1991) Perturbation from
isotropic to anisotropic media in the ray approximation, Geophys.
J. Int., 106, 1-10.
Lutter,
W.J., R.L. Nowack and L.W. Braile
(1990) Seismic imaging of upper crustal
structure using travel-times from the PASSCAL Ourachita
Experiment, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 4621-4631.
Daudt, C.R., L.W.
Braile, R.L. Nowack and
C.S. Chiang (1990) Reply to J. Vidale's "comment on 'a comparison of
finite-difference and Fourier calculations of synthetic seismograms'",
Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 80, 496-497.
Lyslo, J.A.
and R.L. Nowack (1990) Slant stack analysis of shot
point 16 from the 1986 PASSCAL Ouachita Experiment, J. Geophys.
Res., 95, 4647-4656.
Nowack, R.L.
(1990) Tomography and the Herglotz-Wiechert
Formulation, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 133, 305-315.
Lutter,
W.J. and R.L. Nowack (1990) Inversion for crustal
structure using reflections from the PASSCAL Ouachita Experiment, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 4621-4631.
Nowack, R.L.
(1990) Perturbation methods for rays and beams, in Second IMACS Symposium on
Computational Acoustics, Ed. Lee, D., North Holland Press, 167-180.
Nowack, R.L.
(1990) Book review of "Geophysical Data Analysis: Discrete Inverse
Theory" by W. Menke, Pure and Applied
Geophysics, 140-142.
Daudt, C.R., L.W.
Braile, R.L. Nowack and
C.S. Chiang (1989) A comparison of
finite difference and Fourier method calculations of synthetic seismograms,
Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 79, 1210-1230.
Nowack,
R.L. and W. Lutter (1989) Linearized
rays, amplitude and inversion, in Scattering and Attenuation of Seismic Waves,
Eds. Wu, R.S. and K. Aki, Birkhauser Boston.
Nowack,
R.L. and J. Lyslo (1989) Frechet
derivatives for curved interfaces in the ray approximation, Geophys.
J. Int., 97, 497-509.
Nowack, R.L.
and W.J. Lutter (1988) Linearized
rays, amplitude and inversion, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 128, 401-421.
Nowack,
R.L. and W.J. Lutter (1988) A note on the calculation of covariance and resolution,
Geophys. J. Int., 95, 205-207.
Nowack,
R.L. (1988) Sensitivity operators for curved interfaces within the ray
approximation, Conference on Seismic Waves in Laterally Heterogeneous Media, Liblice, Czechoslovakia.
Nowack,
R.L. (1986) Gaussian beam synthetic
seismograms, J. Acoustical Soc. Am., 79, S14.
Nowack, R.L.
and K. Aki (1986) Iterative inversion for velocity using waveform data, Geophys. J.R. astr. Soc., 87,
701-730.
Aki, K., R.S. Wu and R.L. Nowack (1985) Seismic wave scattering and lithospheric
heterogeneity, in A.U. Kerr (ed.) The VELA program: A twenty-five year
review of basic research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
419-423.
Nowack,
R.L. (1985) Wave propagation in laterally varying media and iterative inversion
for velocity, Ph.D., MIT, 225 p.
Nowack, R.L.
and K. Aki (1984) The 2-D Gaussian beam
synthetic method: Testing and Application, J. Geophys.
Res., 89, 7797-7819.
Patwardhan,
A.D., D.D. Tillson and R.L. Nowack
(1978) Zonation
for critical facilities based on two-level earthquakes, International
Earthquake Engineering and Microzonation Conference
Proceedings, 485-496.