W. Kendall Melville

10.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
146 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

W. Kendall Melville is a scholar working on Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Kendall Melville has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Oceanography, 77 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 44 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in W. Kendall Melville's work include Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (106 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (82 papers) and Coastal and Marine Dynamics (72 papers). W. Kendall Melville is often cited by papers focused on Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (106 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (82 papers) and Coastal and Marine Dynamics (72 papers). W. Kendall Melville collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Taiwan. W. Kendall Melville's co-authors include Karl R. Helfrich, Luc Lenain, Ronald J. Rapp, Fabrice Véron, Eric Lamarre, Luc Deike, Leonel Romero, Peter P. Sullivan, James C. McWilliams and Eng Soon Chan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

In The Last Decade

W. Kendall Melville

143 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

LONG NONLINEAR INTERNAL WAVES

2005 597 citations W. Kendall Melville et al. profile →
Laboratory measurements of deep-water breaking waves

1990 473 citations Ronald J. Rapp, W. Kendall Melville Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. Kendall Melville United States	51	6.4k	4.1k	3.0k	1.1k	682	146	8.2k
O. M. Phillips United States	40	6.2k 1.0×	3.7k 0.9×	2.9k 1.0×	1.5k 1.3×	632 0.9×	81	9.0k
S. A. Thorpe United Kingdom	44	4.5k 0.7×	1.7k 0.4×	2.8k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	292 0.4×	138	6.4k
David M. Farmer Canada	48	5.3k 0.8×	1.5k 0.4×	2.6k 0.9×	459 0.4×	480 0.7×	149	6.6k
Alexander V. Babanin Australia	45	6.4k 1.0×	3.2k 0.8×	4.4k 1.5×	218 0.2×	515 0.8×	251	7.6k
James T. Kirby United States	54	5.9k 0.9×	9.1k 2.2×	4.8k 1.6×	1.3k 1.1×	944 1.4×	263	12.1k
Peter A. E. M. Janssen United Kingdom	42	6.9k 1.1×	3.6k 0.9×	4.5k 1.5×	127 0.1×	469 0.7×	100	7.9k
Robert G. Dean United States	37	2.9k 0.5×	6.3k 1.5×	2.0k 0.7×	958 0.8×	1.3k 1.9×	182	8.3k
G. T. Csanady United States	41	3.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.3×	2.0k 0.7×	905 0.8×	585 0.9×	133	5.6k
Chris Garrett Canada	38	4.0k 0.6×	797 0.2×	2.3k 0.8×	394 0.3×	291 0.4×	92	5.5k
Mark A. Donelan United States	43	7.8k 1.2×	3.9k 1.0×	5.1k 1.7×	162 0.1×	361 0.5×	109	8.9k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lenain, Luc, Nick Pizzo, & W. Kendall Melville. (2019). Laboratory studies of Lagrangian transport by breaking surface waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 876. 21 indexed citations

Grare, Laurent, Luc Lenain, & W. Kendall Melville. (2018). Vertical Profiles of the Wave-Induced Airflow above Ocean Surface Waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 48(12). 2901–2922. 25 indexed citations

Pizzo, Nick, Luc Deike, & W. Kendall Melville. (2018). Lagrangian transport by breaking deep-water surface waves. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018.

Young, Adam P., Reinhard E. Flick, Timu W. Gallien, et al.. (2018). Southern California Coastal Response to the 2015–2016 El Niño. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 123(11). 3069–3083. 31 indexed citations

Deike, Luc, W. Kendall Melville, & Stéphane Popinet. (2016). Air entrainment and bubble statistics in breaking waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 801. 91–129. 196 indexed citations

Sutherland, Peter & W. Kendall Melville. (2015). Field Measurements of Surface and Near-Surface Turbulence in the Presence of Breaking Waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 45(4). 943–965. 100 indexed citations

Melville, W. Kendall & Alexey V. Fedorov. (2015). The equilibrium dynamics and statistics of gravity–capillary waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 767. 449–466. 21 indexed citations

Deike, Luc, Stéphane Popinet, & W. Kendall Melville. (2015). Capillary effects on wave breaking. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 769. 541–569. 113 indexed citations

Melville, W. Kendall, et al.. (2013). Airborne Lidar in Support of Ocean Topography Missions and Science. 710. 84. 1 indexed citations

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Pizzo, Nick & W. Kendall Melville. (2013). Vortex generation by deep-water breaking waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 734. 198–218. 36 indexed citations

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Melville, W. Kendall, et al.. (2010). The Analysis of Sea Surface Imagery for Whitecap Kinematics. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 28(2). 219–243. 64 indexed citations

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Lenain, Luc, et al.. (2009). A Portable Airborne Scanning Lidar System for Ocean and Coastal Applications. Chemistry and Ecology. 26(12). 2626–2641. 1 indexed citations

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Rogers, David P., Clive E. Dorman, Kathleen A. Edwards, et al.. (1998). Highlights of Coastal Waves 1996. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 79(7). 1307–1326. 67 indexed citations

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Fedorov, Alexey V. & W. Kendall Melville. (1998). Nonlinear gravity–capillary waves with forcing and dissipation. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 354. 1–42. 69 indexed citations

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Melville, W. Kendall, et al.. (1995). Laboratory study of polarized scattering by surface waves at grazing incidence. I. Wind waves. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 33(4). 1037–1046. 34 indexed citations

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Melville, W. Kendall. (1994). Energy Dissipation by Breaking Waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 24(10). 2041–2049. 133 indexed citations

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Loewen, Mark & W. Kendall Melville. (1991). A model of the sound generated by breaking waves. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 90(4). 2075–2080. 47 indexed citations

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Rapp, Ronald J. & W. Kendall Melville. (1990). Laboratory measurements of deep-water breaking waves. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 331(1622). 735–800. 473 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chan, Eng Soon & W. Kendall Melville. (1988). Deep-water plunging wave pressures on a vertical plane wall. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 417(1852). 95–131. 137 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Joseph F., E. Eric Adams, W. Kendall Melville, & Donald R. F. Harleman. (1985). Entrainment in diffusive thermohaline systems. Application to salt gradient solar ponds. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 86. 14760. 5 indexed citations

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