Ivan Tolstoy

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 Research articles and monographs (contributions to books are capitalised) 


1. 1947 Punched-card computation of isostatic and topographic reductions, Trans.Am. Geophys.Union , 28 (6), 823-830.

2. 1949 North Atlantic Hydrography and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Bull.Geol.Soc .Am.,60,1527-1540 (with Maurice Ewing). 

3. 1950 The T phase of Shallow-focus earthquakes, Bull.Seism.Soc.Am .40, 25-51 (with Maurice Ewing)

4. 1950. Proposed use of the T phase in tsunami-warning systems, Bull.Seism.Soc.Am.,40,53-58 (with Maurice Ewing and Frank Press) 

5. 1950. The Airy phase of shallow-focus submarine earthquakes, Bull.Seism.Soc.Am .,40,111-148 (with Maurice Ewing and Frank Press)

6. 1951 Submarine topography in the North Atlantic, Bull.Geol.Soc.Am .62,441- 450

7. 1953 Seismic refraction measurements in the Atlantic Ocean.,Bull.Seism.Soc.Am.43,35-48 (with R.S.Edwards and Maurice Ewing)

8. 1953 Dispersive properties of a fluid layer overlying a semi-infinte elastic solid, Bull.Seism.Soc.Am .,44 (3),493-512

9. 1953 Dispersive properties of stratified elastic and liquid media, Geophysics, 18(4) 844-870 (with E.Usdin).

10. 1955 Note on the propagation of normal modes in inhomogeneous media, J.Acous . Soc.Am .27 (5),897-907.

11. 1955 Dispersion and simple harmonic point sources in wave ducts J.Acous.Soc.Am . 27(5) 897-907.

12. 1956 Resonant frequencies and high modes in layered waveguides J.Acous.Soc.Am . 28(6),1182-1192

13. 1957 Wave propagation in elastic plates: low and high mode dispersion J.Acous. Soc.Am . 29(1),37-42 (with E.Usdin)

14. 1957 Formulation of wave propagation in infinite media by normal coordinates with an application to diffraction J.Acous.Soc.Am.29 (3) 381-391 (with M.A.Biot)

15. 1958 Shallow water test of the theory of layered waveguides, J.Acous.Soc.Am. 30 . (4) 348-361.

16. 1958 Resonances due to hidden degrees of freedom in stratified elastic media, in NON-HOMOGENEITY IN ELASTICITY AND    PLASTICITY,

Proc.IUTAM Symposium, Warsaw, 1958, 373-382

17. 1959 Resonances due to hidden degrees of freedom in stratified elastic media, Bull . Acad .Polon.Sciences, 7 2-3,187

18. 1959 Modes,rays and travel times. J.Geophys.Res .,64 (7) 815-821.

19. 1959 Guided waves in a fluid with continuously variable velocity overlying an elastic solid: theory and experiment. Proc.3rd Intern.Congress Acoust. (Stuttgart). Elsevier Publ.,266-267.

20. 1960 Spectrum analysis of T phases from Agadir earthquake, J.Geophys.Res. 65 .(12),4223-4224 (with J.Northrop and M.Blaik)

21. 1960 Canonical and Hamiltonian formalism applied to the Sturm-Liouville equation . Q.Appl.Math .,18, 163-172 (with M.A.Biot)

22. 1960 Propagation of low-frequency cw sound signals in the deep ocean, J.Acous. Soc.Am .,32 (6),645-647 (with A.N.Guthrie and J.Shaffer)

23. 1960. Guided waves in a fluid with continuously variable velocity overlying an elastic solid: theory and experiment, J.Acous.Soc.Am .,31(1)81-87.

24. 1961 Elastic wave interferometry - a new tool, J.Geophys.Res.,66 (8)2481- 2488

25. 1962 Trapping of sound by density gradients,Fourth Intern Congress

Acoust. Copenhagen, K14,4pp.

26. 1963 The theory of waves in stratified media including the effects of gravity and rotation, Rev.Mod.Phys.,35(1),207-230. 

27. 1964 Comparison of normal mode and ray theoretic treatments of

acoustic propagation in the ocean , in QUASI-OPTICS, Proc.Symp.Brooklyn Polytech Institute Press 43-56.

28. 1965 Total internal reflection of pulses in stratified media, J.Acous.Soc.Am .37 (6) 1153-1155.

29. 1965 Effect of density stratification on sound waves, J.Geophys.Res, 70

(24) 6009- 6015

30. 1966 Ocean Acoustics: an evaluation, Rev.Geophys.4,(1) 33-40 (with C.S.Clay)

31. 1966 OCEAN ACOUSTICS, McGraw-Hill Book Co,293 pp (with

C.S.Clay). Russian edition published by Mir (1969).

32. 1966 A hydromagnetic gradient wave, Phys.Letters, 23 (1), 78-79.

33. 1967 Hydromagnetic gradient waves in the ionosphere, J.Geophys.Res.,72 (5) 1435-1442.

34. 1967 Long period gravity waves in the atmosphere,J.Geophys.Res.,72(5) 4605-4622.

35. 1968 Comments on "Evidence of phase shifts at caustics" J.Acoust.Soc.Am. 43 (2),380-381.

36. 1968 Phase changes and pulse deformation in acoustics (tutorial paper) J.Acoust . Soc.Am., 44 (3),675-683.

37. 1968 Mesoscale pressure fluctuations in the atmosphere, Acoustic-gravity waves in the atmosphere, Boulder CO, Symposium ,US Gov't Printing Office, 107-120.

38. 1969 The Hudson Laboratories microbarograph system: results and future trends . Report of panel on remote atmospheric probing, NAS-NRC Commitee on Atmospheric sciences, 2, NAS.,Washington DC.

39. 1969 Atmospheric pressure background fluctuations in the mesoscale range, J. Geophys..Res.,74 (6) 1321-1329 (with T.Herron and D.W.Kraft).

40. 1969.Tracking jet stream winds from ground level pressure signals,J.Atmos.Sci . 26 (3),270-273 (with T.Herron).

41. 1969 A model for atmospheric pressure fluctuations in the mesoscale range, J. Atmos.Sci., 26(3),270-273 (with T.Herron)

42. 1969 Note on long gravity waves in layered atmospheres, J.Geophys.Res. 74. (13),3436-3439.

43. 1969 Long wavelength atmospheric gravity waves from nuclear

explosions, NEREM Record,11,166-167

44. 1970 Atmospheric gravity waves from nuclear explosions. J.Atmos.Sci.,27(1) . 55-61 (with T.Herron).

45. 1970 Simplified atmospheric models and the properties of long period internal and surface gravity waves. J.Atmos.Sci.,27 (1) 31-50 (with P.Pan).

46. 1970 Ground level pressure fluctuations connected with ionospheric disturbances . J.Atmos.Sci., 27,(3) 494-503 (with J.Lau).

47. 1970 Long period sound waves in the thermosphere from Apollo launches, 

J. Geophys.Res.,75 (28),5621-5625 (with H.Montes,G.Rao amd E.Willis).

48. 1971 Phase height fluctuations in the ionosphere between 130 and 250km,

J. Atmos.and Terr.Physics, 33,775-781 (with H.Montes).

49. 1971 THE PULSE OF A PLANET, AN ESSAY ON EARTH, Signet Science, New American Library ppbck,127 pp.

50. 1971 Generation of long period gravity waves in waveguides by rising buoyant air masses and other sources, Geophys.J.,26,295-310.

51. 1972 The WKB approximation,turning points and the measurement of

phase velocities, J.Acous.Soc.Am..,52(1)356-363.

52. 1973 WAVE PROPAGATION McGraw-Hill Book Co.,New Y ork, 468pp. 

53. 1973 Infrasonic fluctuation spectra in the atmosphere, Geophys.J.Roy.Astr.Soc. 34, 343-363.

54. 1975 Fluctuation spectra of wavefields in geophysics, Geophys.J.Roy.Astr.Soc . 42, 803-809.

55. 1975 Ionospheric fluctuations due to turbulent wind layers, J.Atmos.Terr.Phys. 37,1125-1132 (with C.D.Miller).

56. 1977 Remarks on the linearization of differential equations, J.Inst.Maths Applics., 20, 53-60.

57. 1978 The Age of Uncertainty, New Ecologist ,4, 125-127

58. 1978 The Age of Uncertainty, Man-Environment Systems ,8, 223-225.

59. 1979 The scattering of spherical pulses by slightly rough surfaces, J.Acous.Soc. Am . 66 (4) 1135-1144.

60. 1979 The scattered acoustic boundary wave generated by grazing incidence at a slightly rough surface,J.Acous.Soc.Am .66(4)1131-1134 (with H.Medwin et al.) 

61. 1980 At the risk of grave consequences, feature in The Guardian, April 10 '80. (on geological disposal of high level wastes).

62. 1980 Coherent acoustic scatter at a rough interface between two fluids, J.Acous. Soc.Am. 68(1)258-268.

63. 1981 Energy transmission into shadow zone by rough surface boundary wave J. Acous.Soc.Am. 69(5)1290-1298.

64. 1981 The Forces of Change, feature in The Guardian , June 11'81 (on Maxwell)

65. 1981 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL, Canongate, Edinburgh, 184pp.,.Hdbk&ppbk

66. 1982 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL, A BIOGRAPHY, Chicago University press 184pp. Hdbk & ppbk.

67. 1982 Coherent sound scatter from a rough interface between arbitrary fluids with particular reference to roughness element shapes and corrugated surfaces,J.Acous.Soc.Am .72(3)960-972.

68 1982 On scatter from a rough interface, J.Acous.Soc.Am.,73(3)973-974.

69. 1982 On elastic waves in prestressed solids, J.Geophys.Res 87(B8)6823- 6827.

70. 1982 Das Zeitalter der Unbestimmtheit, from TOD UNTER DEM 

KURZEN REGENBOGEN, Trikont-Dianus Verlag, Munich, 54-60.

71. 1983 Acoustic phase changes and boundary waves on a rough seafloor,

in ACOUSTICS AND THE SEA-BED, Bath University Press, 335-346.

72. 1983 The riddle of high-level radioactive waste in DISPOSAL OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE,NUCLEAR FORUM II (Wales Council of Churches, Wrexham)73-81.

73. 1983 Coherent modes and boundary waves in a rough-walled acoustic waveguide J.Acous.Soc.Am .,73(4) 1192-1199.

74. 1983 Low-frequency propgation in almost fluid sediments: role of gravity and other stresses, J.Acous.Soc.Am. 73(4) 1200-1204

75. 1983 Compact sound scatterers with constraints, J.Acous.Soc.Am 74(3)1068- 1070. 

76. 1983 Acoustic estimation of deep seafloor nodule densities,Geophysics 48 (11) 1450-1452

77. 1984 Smoothed boundary conditions,coherent low-frequency scatter and boundary modes, J.Acous.Soc.Am.,75(1)1-22

78. 1985 Rough surface boundary wave attenuation due to incoherent scatter,J. Acous Soc.Am.,77(2)482-488

79. 1985 An assessment of second-order perturbation theory for scattering of sound by hard, statistically rough surfaces, J.Acous.Soc.Am.,77(6)2074-2080 (with A.Tolstoy, D.Berman and O.Diachok)

80. 1985 Acoustic scatter from a slightly rough boundary between a fluid and an elastic solid, J.Acous.Soc.Am.,78 (5)1727-1734.

81. 1986 Effect of roughness on subsonic flexural waves in a thin plate overlying a compressible fluid, J.Acous.Soc.Am.,79(3)666-672

82. 1986 Long wavelength acoustical scatter from rough surfaces, in FRONTIERS OF ACOUSTICS, Ed.D.Sette, Proc.International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", 209-254.

83. 1986 High Level Waste: No technical solution, The Ecologist,16,(4-5)205- 209.

84 1986 Superresonant systems of scatterers I, J.Acous.Soc.Am. 80(1)282-294 

85. 1987 Properties of superresonant systems of spherical scatterers, IEEE J.Ocean. Eng. OE-12(2),327-332

86. 1987 OCEAN ACOUSTICS(with C.S.Clay) 2nd enlarged edition. Am.Inst.Phys. 379 pp.

87. 1988 Superresonant systems of scatterers II, J.Acous.Soc.Am.,83(6)2086- 2096.

88. 1988 Diffraction by angular surfaces: New solutions, Proc.Inst.Acoust. 10

(2) 665-671

89. 1989 Diffraction by a hard truncated wedge and a strip, IEEE J.Ocean.Eng,14 (1) 4-16

90. 1989 Exact,explicit solutions for diffraction by hard sound barriers and seamounts . J.Acous.Soc.Am.,85(2)661-669.

91. 1990 Line and plane arrays of monopole scatterers J.Acous.Soc.Am. 

87(3)1038- 1043 (with A.Tolstoy).

92. 1990 Bubble-like scatterer monolayers at solid-fluid interfaces:effects on reflectivity J.Acous.Soc.Am . 87(6)2459-2466.

93. 1990 Reflection and scatter of acoustic waves from a thin, rough elastic plate on the surface of a fluid: theory and experiment. J.Acous.Soc.88(4)2021-2024 (with O.Diachok)

94. 1990. Comment on "Multiple scattering by finite regular arrays of resonators" J. Acous,Soc.Am.,88(2) 1178-1179

95. 1990 THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE POWER, Reflections on the History and philosophy of science, Canongate, Edinburgh 240pp, Hdbk & ppbk. 

96.1992,Editor&preface ofACOUSTICS,ELASTICITYAND THERMODYNAMICS OF POROUS MEDIA:TWENTY-ONE PAPERS BY M.A.BIOT, Acous.Soc.Am & Am.Inst.Phys.

97.1997 Boundary Waves, ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ACOUSTICS, 1,153-159, Wiley and Sons Inc.,New York (Ed.M.J.Crocker)

98. 1998 M.A.Biot: A man of unique talent, some personal reminiscences, Académie Royale de Belgique, 6e série, tome IX, Bull.Classe des Sciences,223- 231.

99. 2000 Gravitomagnetic, Gravitational and Electromagnetic Isomorphisms, PIER. 2000 Symposium Proc., 439.

100. 2001, Gravitomagnetic and gravitoelectric waves in general relativity, Int.J.Theo.Phys, 40,3,2001,1021-1031

101.2002 Gravitomagnetic and Gravitoelectric Waves in General Relativity:II. Int. J Theo Phys. 41,4,April 2002,721-728

102.2006 M.A.Biot: Applied mathematician and engineering scientist.

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 26 (2006) 484-485

103. 2006 The Pekeris Waveguide Revisited (L) J.Acoust.Soc.Am.120(3) 1-3 

104. 2012 Frame-dragging fields and spin 1 gravitomagnetic radiation, General Relativity and Gravitation, DOI 10.1007/s10714-012-1447-z (online and printed versions) 


Books

Technical: 

Ocean Acoustics (with C.S.Clay), McGraw Hill, NY, 1967. also Russian transl., Akoustika Okeana Ed.Mir, Moscow, 1969 

Wave Propagation , McGraw Hill, NY, 1973

Ocean Acoustics , 2nd enlarged ed. Am. Inst.Phys., 1987 ppbk 

Twenty-one Papers by M.A.Biot (Ed.) Am.Inst.Phys.,1990 


Non-technical (popular): 

The Pulse of a Planet , New Am.Library, Signet, 1971

James Clerk Maxwell, a biography , Canongate, 1981 hd & ppbk:  U.Chicago Press, 1982

The Knowledge and the Power , reflections on the history of science, Canongate, hd & ppbk, 1990

Lands of Exile (autobiography), Kindle, 2012