Pieter Smit

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Pieter Smit is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Pieter Smit has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Oceanography, 30 papers in Atmospheric Science and 29 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Pieter Smit's work include Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (34 papers), Coastal and Marine Dynamics (29 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (26 papers). Pieter Smit is often cited by papers focused on Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (34 papers), Coastal and Marine Dynamics (29 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (26 papers). Pieter Smit collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Australia. Pieter Smit's co-authors include Marcel Zijlema, Guus S. Stelling, T. T. Janssen, Dirk P. Rijnsdorp, R. T. Guza, L.H. Holthuijsen, T. H. C. Herbers, Jane McKee Smith, Julia W. Fiedler and Katherine Brodie and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Geophysical Research Letters and Journal of Physical Oceanography.

In The Last Decade

Pieter Smit

43 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

SWASH: An operational public domain code for simulating wave fields and rapidly varied flows in coastal waters

2011 543 citations Marcel Zijlema, Guus S. Stelling et al. Coastal Engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pieter Smit United States	17	1.3k	833	793	515	100	46	1.5k
David L. Kriebel United States	17	931 0.7×	355 0.4×	375 0.5×	434 0.8×	169 1.7×	71	1.3k
T. T. Janssen United States	17	1.0k 0.8×	1.0k 1.2×	721 0.9×	272 0.5×	27 0.3×	41	1.3k
JP Davis United States	6	638 0.5×	303 0.4×	205 0.3×	340 0.7×	99 1.0×	12	873
Merrick C. Haller United States	19	1.3k 1.0×	966 1.2×	708 0.9×	507 1.0×	51 0.5×	76	1.6k
Wolfgang Rosenthal Germany	22	980 0.8×	1.8k 2.1×	684 0.9×	139 0.3×	42 0.4×	61	2.0k
Ole R. Sørensen Denmark	12	1.8k 1.4×	1.4k 1.7×	1.1k 1.4×	450 0.9×	168 1.7×	26	2.0k
Marion Tissier Netherlands	16	848 0.7×	506 0.6×	483 0.6×	326 0.6×	91 0.9×	41	978
Ivar G. Jonsson Denmark	18	1.6k 1.2×	891 1.1×	563 0.7×	760 1.5×	203 2.0×	49	1.9k
Donald N. Slinn United States	17	445 0.3×	381 0.5×	361 0.5×	224 0.4×	95 0.9×	30	744
Jebbe J. van der Werf Netherlands	17	940 0.7×	153 0.2×	150 0.2×	792 1.5×	75 0.8×	66	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pieter Smit

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All Works

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Reniers, Ad, et al.. (2024). The impact of modulational instability on coastal wave forecasting using quadratic models. Coastal Engineering. 190. 104502–104502. 2 indexed citations

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Reniers, Ad, et al.. (2024). QuadWave1D: An optimized quadratic formulation for spectral prediction of coastal waves. Coastal Engineering. 191. 104516–104516. 2 indexed citations

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Hegermiller, Christie A., et al.. (2023). Proxy Observations of Surface Wind from a Globally Distributed Network of Wave Buoys. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 40(12). 1591–1603. 4 indexed citations

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Smit, Pieter, et al.. (2023). A mild-slope formulation based on Weyl rule of association with application to coastal wave modelling. Wave Motion. 122. 103189–103189. 1 indexed citations

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Thomson, Jim, et al.. (2023). Aerial Deployment of Spotter Wave Buoys During Hurricane Ian. 1–5. 3 indexed citations

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Hegermiller, Christie A., et al.. (2022). Operational Assimilation of Spectral Wave Data From the Sofar Spotter Network. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(15). 15 indexed citations

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Smit, Pieter, et al.. (2021). Assimilation of significant wave height from distributed ocean wave sensors. Ocean Modelling. 159. 101738–101738. 48 indexed citations

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Smit, Pieter, et al.. (2020). Efficient two-layer non-hydrostatic wave model with accurate dispersive behaviour. Coastal Engineering. 164. 103808–103808. 29 indexed citations

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Smit, Pieter & T. T. Janssen. (2019). Swell Propagation through Submesoscale Turbulence. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 49(10). 2615–2630. 13 indexed citations

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Smit, Pieter, T. T. Janssen, T. H. C. Herbers, T. Taira, & Barbara Romanowicz. (2018). Infragravity Wave Radiation Across the Shelf Break. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(7). 4483–4490. 21 indexed citations

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Fiedler, Julia W., Pieter Smit, Katherine Brodie, Jesse McNinch, & R. T. Guza. (2018). The offshore boundary condition in surf zone modeling. Coastal Engineering. 143. 12–20. 28 indexed citations

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Smit, Pieter, et al.. (2016). Remote sensing of nearshore wave interference. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 121(5). 3409–3421. 7 indexed citations

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Smit, Pieter, T. T. Janssen, & T. H. C. Herbers. (2015). Stochastic modeling of inhomogeneous ocean waves. Ocean Modelling. 96. 26–35. 11 indexed citations

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Rijnsdorp, Dirk P., Pieter Smit, & Marcel Zijlema. (2014). Non-hydrostatic modelling of infragravity waves under laboratory conditions. Coastal Engineering. 85. 30–42. 85 indexed citations

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Holthuijsen, L.H., et al.. (2014). ALTERNATIVE SOURCE TERMS FOR SWAN IN THE COASTAL REGION. Coastal Engineering Proceedings. 22–22. 5 indexed citations

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Rijnsdorp, Dirk P., Pieter Smit, & Marcel Zijlema. (2012). NON-HYDROSTATIC MODELLING OF INFRAGRAVITY WAVES USING SWASH. Coastal Engineering Proceedings. 27–27. 12 indexed citations

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Smit, Pieter & T. T. Janssen. (2011). Coherent structures in random waves. AGUFM. 2011.

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Zijlema, Marcel, Pieter Smit, & Guus S. Stelling. (2011). Simulating nearshore wave transformation with non-hydrostatic wave-flow modelling. Research Repository (Delft University of Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Zijlema, Marcel, Guus S. Stelling, & Pieter Smit. (2011). SWASH: An operational public domain code for simulating wave fields and rapidly varied flows in coastal waters. Coastal Engineering. 58(10). 992–1012. 543 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cole, Richard, et al.. (2005). From Alaska to the South Pacific in one-hop. 917–922 Vol. 1. 1 indexed citations

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