RICHARD D. RAY - SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed

2017 Ray, R. D. and G. D. Egbert, "Tides and satellite altimetry." In: Satellite Altimetry over Oceans and Land Surfaces, Eds.: D. Stammer and A. Cazenave, CRC Press, Chapter 13, pp. 427-458.
Beckley, B. D., P. S. Callahan, D. W. Hancock, G. T. Mitchum, R. D. Ray, "On the 'cal-mode' correction to TOPEX satellite altimetry and its effect on the global mean sea level time series," Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 122, 00-00. [link]
Egbert, G. D. and R. D. Ray, "Tidal prediction." In: The Sea: The Science of Ocean Prediction, printed as special issue, Journal of Marine Research, 75, 189-237. [link]
Cartwright, D. E., P. L. Woodworth, and R. D. Ray, "Manuel Johnson's tide record at St. Helena," History of Geo- and Space Sciences, 8, 9-19. [link] [link]
Larson, K. M., R. D. Ray, and S. Williams, "A 10-year comparison of water levels measured with a geodetic GPS receiver versus a conventional tide gauge," Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 34, 295-307. [link]
Ray, R. D., "On tidal inference in the diurnal band," Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 34, 437-446. [link]
2016 Ray, R. D. and G. Foster, "Future nuisance flooding at Boston caused by astronomical tides alone," Earth's Future, 4, 578-587. [link]
Ray, R. D. and R. D. Susanto, "Tidal mixing signatures in the Indonesian seas from high-resolution sea surface temperature data," Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 8115-8123. [link]
Ray, R. D. and E. D. Zaron, M2 internal tides and their observed wavenumber spectra from satellite altimetry, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 46, 3-22. [link]
Hamlington, B. D. et al., "Assessing the impact of vertical land motion on twentieth century global mean sea level estimates," Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 121, 4980-4993. [link]
Ray, R. D., "On measurements of the tide at Churchill, Hudson Bay," Atmosphere-Ocean, 54, 108-116. [link]
2014 Ray, R. D. and S. Y. Erofeeva, "Long-period tidal variations in the length of day," Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119, 1498-1509. [link]
Stammer, D., R. D. Ray, O. B. Andersen, B. K. Arbic, W. Bosch, L. Carrere, Y. Cheng, D. S. Chinn, B. D. Dushaw, G. D. Egbert, S. Y. Erofeeva, H. S. Fok, J. A. M. Green, S. Griffiths, M. A. King, V. Lapin, F. G. Lemoine, S. B. Luthcke, F. Lyard, J. Morison, M. Muller, L. Padman, J. G. Richman, J. F. Shriver, C. K. Shum, E. Taguchi, Y. Yi, "Accuracy assessment of global barotropic ocean tide models," Reviews of Geophysics, 52, 243-282. [link]
Schindelegger, M. and R. D. Ray, "Surface pressure tide climatologies deduced from a quality-controlled network of barometric observations," Monthly Weather Review, 142, 4872-4889. [link]
Desai, S. D. and R. D. Ray, "Consideration of tidal geocenter variations for satellite altimeter observations of ocean tides," Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 2454-2459. [link]
2013 Larson, K. M., R. D. Ray, F. G. Nievinski, J. T. Freymueller, "The accidental tide gauge: A case study of GPS reflections from Kachemak Bay, Alaska," IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 10, 1200-1204. [link]
Ray, R. D., "Precise comparisons of bottom-pressure and altimetric ocean tides," Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 118, 4570-4584. [link]
Ray, R. D., S. B. Luthcke, and T. van Dam, "Monthly crustal loading corrections for satellite altimetry," Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 30, 999-1005. [link]
2012 Ray, R. D. and G. D. Egbert, "Fortnightly earth rotation, ocean tides, and mantle anelasticity," Geophysical Journal International, 189, 400-413. [link]
Ray, R. D. and B. D. Beckley, "Calibration of ocean wave measurements by the TOPEX, Jason-1, and Jason-2 satellites," Marine Geodesy, 35, 238-257. [link]
Shriver, J. F., B. K. Arbic, J. G. Richman, R. D. Ray, E. J. Metzger, A. J. Wallcraft, and P. G. Timko, "An evaluation of the barotropic and internal tides in a high-resolution global ocean circulation model," Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, C10024. [link]
2011 Ray, R. D. and B. C. Douglas, "Experiments in reconstructing twentieth-century sea levels," Progress in Oceanography, 91, 496-515. [link]
Ray, R. D. and E. D. Zaron, "Non-stationary internal tides observed with satellite altimetry," Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L17609. [link]
Ray, R. D., G. D. Egbert, and S. Y. Erofeeva, "Tide predictions in shelf and coastal waters: status and prospects," in Coastal Altimetry, (Eds.: S. Vignudelli et al.), Springer-Verlag, pp. 191-216. [link]
2010 Ray, R. D., B. D. Beckley, and F. G. Lemoine, "Vertical crustal motion derived from satellite altimetry and tide gauges, and comparisons with DORIS measurements," Advances in Space Research, 45, 1510-1522. [link]
Ray, R. D. and D. A. Byrne, "Bottom pressure tides along a line in the southeast Atlantic Ocean and comparisons with satellite altimetry," Ocean Dynamics, 60, 1167-1176. [link]
Han, S.-C., R. D. Ray, and S. B. Luthcke, "One centimeter-level observations of diurnal ocean tides from global monthly mean time-variable gravity fields," Journal of Geodesy, 84, 715-729. [link]
Egbert, G. D., S. Y. Erofeeva, and R. D. Ray, "Assimilation of altimetry data for nonlinear shallow-water tides: quarter-diurnal tides of the Northwest European Shelf," Continental Shelf Research, 30, 668-679. [link]
Beckley, B. D. et al., "Assessment of the Jason-2 extension to the Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1 sea surface height time series for global sea level monitoring," Marine Geodesy, 33, 447-471. [link]
2009 Ray, R. D., "Secular changes in the solar semidiurnal tide of the western North Atlantic Ocean," Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L19601. [link]
Egbert, G. D., S. Y. Erofeeva, S.-C. Han, S. B. Luthcke, and R. D. Ray, "Assimilation of GRACE tide solutions into a numerical hydrodynamic inverse model," Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L20609. [link]
Ray, R. D., S. B. Luthcke, and J.-P. Boy, "Qualitative comparisons of global ocean tide models by analysis of intersatellite ranging data," Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, C09017. [link]
2008 Ray, R. D., "A preliminary tidal analysis of ICESat laser altimetry: Southern Ross Ice Shelf," Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L02505. [link]
2007 Ray, R. D., "Decadal climate variability: Is there a tidal connection?" Journal of Climate, 20, 3542-3560. [link]
Ray, R. D. and D. E. Cartwright, "Times of peak astronomical tides," Geophysical Journal International, 168, 999-1004. [link]
Han, S.-C., R. D. Ray, S. B. Luthcke, "Ocean tidal solutions in Antarctica from GRACE intersatellite tracking data," Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L21607. [link]
Ray, R. D., "Propagation of the overtide M4 through the deep Atlantic Ocean," Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L21602. [link]
Beckley, B. D., F. G. Lemoine, S. B. Luthcke, R. D. Ray, N. P. Zelensky, "A reassessment of global and regional mean sea-level trends from TOPEX and Jason-1 altimetry based on revised reference frame and orbits," Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L14608. [link]
Ray, R. D., "Tidal analysis experiments with sun-synchronous satellite altimeter data," Journal of Geodesy, 81, 247-257. [link]
2006 Ray, R. D., "Secular changes of the M2 tide in the Gulf of Maine," Continental Shelf Research, 26, 422-427. [link]
Luthcke, S. B., et al., "Recent Greenland ice mass loss by drainage system from satellite gravity observations," Science, 314, 1286-1289. [link]
Ray, R. D. and S. B. Luthcke, "Tide model errors and GRACE gravimetry: Towards a more realistic assessment," Geophysical Journal International, 167, 1055-1059. [link]
Benjamin, D., J. M. Wahr, R. D. Ray, G. D. Egbert, S. D. Desai, "Constraints on mantle anelasticity from geodetic observations, and implications for the J2 anomaly," Geophysical Journal International, 165, 3-16. [link]
Andersen, O. B., G. D. Egbert, S. Y. Erofeeva, R. D. Ray, "Mapping nonlinear shallow-water tides: a look at the past and future," (In memory of C. Le Provost), Ocean Dynamics, 56, 416-429. [link]
Boy, J.-P., R. D. Ray, J. Hinderer, "Diurnal atmospheric tide and induced gravity variations," Journal of Geodynamics, 41, 253-258. [link]
2005 Ray, R. D. and S. Poulose, "Terdiurnal surface-pressure oscillations over the continental United States," Monthly Weather Review, 133, 2526-2534. [link]
Ray, R. D., G. D. Egbert, and S. Y. Erofeeva, "A brief overview of tides in the Indonesian Seas," Oceanography, 18, 74-79. [PDF]
2004 Ray, R. D. and G. D. Egbert, "The global S1 tide," Journal of Physical Oceanography, 34, 1922-1935. [link]
Egbert, G. D., R. D. Ray, and B. G. Bills, "Numerical modeling of the global semidiurnal tide in the present day and in the Last Glacial Maximum," Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, C03003, March 2. [link]
Boy, J.-P., M. Llubes, R. Ray, J. Hinderer, N. Florsch, S. Rosat, F. Lyard, T. Letellier, "Non-linear oceanic tides observed by superconducting gravimeters in Europe," Journal of Geodynamics, 38, 391-405. [link]
2003 Egbert, G. D. and R. D. Ray, "Deviation of long period tides from equilibrium: kinematics and geostrophy," Journal of Physical Oceanography, 33, 822-839. [link]
Ray, R. D., D. D. Rowlands, and G. D. Egbert, "Tidal models in a new era of satellite gravimetry," Space Science Reviews, 108, 271-282. [link]
Ray, R. D. and B. D. Beckley, "Simultaneous ocean wave measurements by the Jason and Topex satellites, with buoy and model comparisons," Marine Geodesy, 26, 367-382. [link]
Ray, R. D. and R. M. Ponte, "Barometric tides from ECMWF operational analyses," Annales Geophysicae, 21, 1897-1910. [link]
Egbert, G. D. and R. D. Ray, "Semi-diurnal and diurnal tidal dissipation from Topex/Poseidon altimetry," Geophysical Research Letters, 30(17), 1907. [link]
2002 Ponte, R. M. and R. D. Ray, "Atmospheric pressure corrections in geodesy and oceanography: a strategy for handling air tides," Geophysical Research Letters, 29(24), 2153. [link]
Rowlands, D. D., R. D. Ray, D. S. Chinn, F. G. Lemoine, "Short-arc analysis of intersatellite tracking data in a gravity mapping mission," Journal of Geodesy, 76, 307-316. [link]
2001 Ray, R. D., R. J. Eanes, F. G. Lemoine, "Constraints on energy dissipation in the earth's body tide from satellite tracking and altimetry," Geophysical Journal International, 144, 471-480. [link]
Ray, R. D., "Inversion of oceanic tidal currents from measured elevations," Journal of Marine Systems, 28, 1-18. [link]
Ray, R. D., and D. E. Cartwright, "Estimates of internal tide energy fluxes from Topex/Poseidon altimetry: Central North Pacific," Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 1259-1263. [link]
Egbert, G. D. and R. D. Ray, "Estimates of M2 tidal energy dissipation from Topex/Poseidon altimeter data," Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 22475-22502. [link]
Ray, R. D., "Resonant third-degree diurnal tides in the seas off Western Europe," Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31, 3581-3586. [link]
Ray, R. D., "Comparisons of global analyses and station observations of the S2 barometric tide," Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 63, 1085-1097. [link]
Ray, R. D., R. J. Eanes, G. D. Egbert, N. K. Pavlis, "Error spectrum for the global M2 ocean tide," Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 21-24. [link]
Ray, R. D., "Internal Tides," in Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences (Eds.: J. H. Steele et al.), pp. 1327-1335, Academic Press.
2000 Egbert, G. D. and R. D. Ray, "Significant dissipation of tidal energy in the deep ocean inferred from satellite altimeter data," Nature, 405, 775-778. [link]
Bills, B. G. and R. D. Ray, "Galilean satellite obliquities," Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 29277-29282. [link]
Chao, B. F., V. Dehant, R. S. Gross, R. D. Ray, D. A. Salstein, M. M. Watkins, C. R. Wilson, "Space geodesy monitors mass transports in global geophysical fluids," Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 81, 247-250.
1999 Ray, R. D., B. G. Bills, and B. F. Chao, "Lunar and solar torques on the oceanic tides," Journal of Geophysical Research, 104 (B8), 17653-17659.
Bills, B. G. and R. D. Ray, "Lunar orbital evolution: a synthesis of recent results," Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 3045-3048. [link]
1998 Ray, R. D., "Diurnal oscillations in atmospheric pressure at twenty-five small oceanic islands," Geophysical Research Letters, 25, 3851-3854. [link]
Ray, R. D., "Ocean self-attraction and loading in numerical tidal models," Marine Geodesy, 21, 181-192. [link]
Ray, R. D., "Spectral analysis of highly aliased sea-level signals," Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, (C11) 24991-25003. [link]
1997 Ray, R. D. and G. T. Mitchum, "Surface manifestation of internal tides in the deep ocean: observations from altimetry and island gauges," Progress in Oceanography, 40, 135-162. [link]
Chao, B. F. and R. D. Ray, "Oceanic tidal angular momentum and Earth's rotation variations," Progress in Oceanography, 40, 399-421. [link]
Ray, R. D., B. F. Chao, Z. Kowalik, A. Proshutinsky, "Angular momentum of Arctic Ocean tides," Journal of Geodesy, 71, 344-350.
Ray, R. D. and G. D. Egbert, "The flux of tidal energy across latitude 60°S," Geophysical Research Letters, 24, 543-546. [link]
Shum, C.-K. and 16 co-authors, "Accuracy assessment of recent ocean tide models," Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, (C11) 25173-25194. [link]
1996 Ray, R. D. and G. T. Mitchum, ``Surface manifestation of internal tides generated near Hawaii,'' Geophysical Research Letters, 23, 2101-2104 + cover figure. [link]
Ray, R. D., R. J. Eanes, and B. F. Chao, ``Detection of tidal dissipation in the solid earth by satellite tracking and altimetry,'' Nature, 381, 595-597. [link]
Chao, B. F., R. D. Ray, J. M. Gipson, G. D. Egbert, C. Ma, ``Diurnal/semidiurnal polar motion excited by oceanic tidal angular momentum,'' Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, (B9) 20151-20163. [link]
1995 Ray, R. D., ``Least squares solution of a linear, bordered, block-diagonal system of equations,'' ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 21, 20-25. [link]
Ray, R. D., S. Bettadpur, R. J. Eanes, E. J. O. Schrama, ``Geometrical determination of the Love number h2 at four tidal frequencies,'' Geophysical Research Letters, 22, 2175-2178. [link]
Chao, B. F., R. D. Ray, and G. D. Egbert, ``Diurnal/semidiurnal oceanic tidal angular momentum: Topex/Poseidon models in comparison with Earth's rotation rate,'' Geophysical Research Letters, 22, 1993-1996.
1994 Ray, R. D., D. J. Steinberg, B. F. Chao, and D. E. Cartwright, "Diurnal and semidiurnal variations in the Earth's rotation rate induced by oceanic tides," Science, 264, 830-832. [link]
Ray, R. D., "Tidal energy dissipation: observations from astronomy, geodesy, and oceanography," in The Oceans (Ed.: S. Majumdar et al.), pp. 171-185, Pennsylvania Academy of Science, Easton.
Cartwright, D. E. and R. D. Ray, "On the radiational anomaly in the global ocean tide, with reference to satellite altimetry," Oceanologica Acta, 17, 453-459.
Ray, R. D. and D. E. Cartwright, "Satellite altimeter observations of the Mf and Mm ocean tides, with simultaneous orbit corrections," in Gravimetry and Space Techniques Applied to Geodynamics and Ocean Dynamics, pp. 69-78, American Geophysical Union, Washington.
Schrama, E. J. O. and R. D. Ray, "A preliminary tidal analysis of Topex/Poseidon altimetry," Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 24799-24808. [link]
Molines, J.-M., C. Le Provost, F. Lyard, R. D. Ray, C. K. Shum, R. J. Eanes, "Tidal corrections in the Topex/Poseidon geophysical data records," Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 24749-24760.
Ray, R. D. and B. V. Sanchez, ``Improved smoothing of an altimetric ocean-tide model with global Proudman functions,'' Geophysical Journal International, 118, 788-794.
1993 Ray, R. D., "Global ocean tide models on the eve of Topex/Poseidon," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 31, 355-364.
1992 Sanchez, B. V., R. D. Ray, and D. E. Cartwright, ``A Proudman-function expansion of the M2 tide in the Mediterranean Sea from satellite altimetry and coastal gauges,'' Oceanologica Acta, 15, 325-337.
Ray, R. D. and R. O. Hansen, ``Comment on `A computer program to perform the upward continuation of potential field data between arbitrary surfaces,' '' Computers and Geosciences, 18, 619-623. [link]
1991 Cartwright, D. E. and R. D. Ray, ``Energetics of global ocean tides from Geosat altimetry,'' Journal of Geophysical Research, 96, 16897-16912. [link]
Ray, R. D. and C. J. Koblinsky, ``On the sea-state bias of the Geosat altimeter,'' Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 8, 397-408. [link]
Ray, R. D., C. J. Koblinsky, B. D. Beckley, ``On the effectiveness of Geosat altimeter corrections,'' International Journal of Remote Sensing, 12, 1979-1984.
1990 Cartwright, D. E. and R. D. Ray, ``Oceanic tides from Geosat altimetry,'' Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, 3069-3090. [link]
Cartwright, D. E. and R. D. Ray, ``Observations of the Mf ocean tide from Geosat altimetry,'' Geophysical Research Letters, 17, 619-622. [link]
1989 Cartwright, D. E. and R. D. Ray, ``New estimates of oceanic tidal energy dissipation from satellite altimetry,'' Geophysical Research Letters,, 16, 73-76.
1987 Ray, R. D., ``On an elementary application of graph theory to a magnetic survey adjustment system,'' Computers and Geosciences, 13, 287-292.
1985 Ray, R. D., ``Correction of systematic error in magnetic surveys: an application of ridge regession and sparse matrix theory,'' Geophysics, 50, 1721-1731.
Ray, R. D., ``Continuation by integral equation methods: a note on surface integration over a double layer,'' Pure and Applied Geophysics, 122, 725-730.
1982 Soller, D. R., R. D. Ray, R. D. Brown, ``A new global crustal thickness map,'' Tectonics, 1, 125-149.

Some additional miscellaneous publications:

  1. Ray, R. D., Tides [pdf] , in Our Changing Planet: The View from Space, (Eds.: M. D. King, C. L. Parkinson, K. C. Partington, R. G. Williams), Cambridge University Press, 2007.

  2. Ray, R. D., Review of [pdf] , Latitude: How American Astronomers Solved the Mystery of Variation by Bill Carter and Merri Sue Carter, Eos, vol. 84, no. 24, p. 229, 17 June 2003.

  3. Ray, R. D., A global ocean tide model from Topex/Poseidon altimetry: GOT99.2, NASA Tech. Memo. 209478 [pdf] , Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, 58 pp., Sept. 1999.

  4. Ray, R. D. and B. V. Sanchez, Radial deformation of the earth by oceanic tidal loading, NASA Tech. Memo. 100743 [pdf] , Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, 49 pp., July 1989.