William D. Smyth

5.1k total citations
86 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

William D. Smyth is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, William D. Smyth has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Oceanography, 57 papers in Atmospheric Science and 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in William D. Smyth's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (71 papers), Climate variability and models (36 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (31 papers). William D. Smyth is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (71 papers), Climate variability and models (36 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (31 papers). William D. Smyth collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. William D. Smyth's co-authors include James N. Moum, James N. Moum, W. R. Peltier, Jonathan D. Nash, Don Caldwell, Eric D. Skyllingstad, David M. Farmer, Laurence Armi, Jeffrey R. Carpenter and Svein Vagle and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

In The Last Decade

William D. Smyth

86 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William D. Smyth United States 37 3.0k 2.3k 1.4k 793 543 86 3.9k
James N. Moum United States 43 4.8k 1.6× 3.0k 1.3× 2.6k 1.8× 448 0.6× 572 1.1× 133 5.4k
John R. Taylor United Kingdom 34 2.3k 0.8× 1.6k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 459 0.6× 207 0.4× 120 3.4k
Kraig B. Winters United States 28 2.2k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 976 0.7× 370 0.5× 444 0.8× 64 3.0k
T. Rossby United States 35 3.3k 1.1× 1.9k 0.9× 1.7k 1.2× 469 0.6× 402 0.7× 101 4.2k
Ann E. Gargett United States 34 3.2k 1.1× 1.5k 0.7× 1.5k 1.0× 332 0.4× 410 0.8× 74 4.0k
T. R. Osborn United States 20 2.7k 0.9× 1.4k 0.6× 1.3k 0.9× 340 0.4× 411 0.8× 42 3.4k
Sonya Legg United States 28 2.1k 0.7× 1.5k 0.7× 985 0.7× 262 0.3× 330 0.6× 61 2.6k
Benoı̂t Cushman-Roisin United States 23 1.6k 0.5× 945 0.4× 633 0.4× 256 0.3× 353 0.7× 66 2.2k
Karl R. Helfrich United States 31 2.3k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 430 0.3× 238 0.3× 731 1.3× 81 3.2k
Xavier Carton France 31 2.4k 0.8× 1.4k 0.6× 999 0.7× 290 0.4× 205 0.4× 161 2.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by William D. Smyth

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William D. Smyth

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William D. Smyth. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William D. Smyth based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with William D. Smyth. William D. Smyth is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wu, Jiaxue, et al.. (2024). Shear Instability and Turbulent Mixing by Kuroshio Intrusion Into the Changjiang River Plume. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(20). 2 indexed citations
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Smyth, William D., et al.. (2024). Turbulence and mixing from neighbouring stratified shear layers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 987. 2 indexed citations
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Smyth, William D., et al.. (2023). The Role of Ambient Turbulence in Canopy Wave Generation by Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 187(3). 501–526. 3 indexed citations
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Smyth, William D., et al.. (2023). The effects of boundary proximity on Kelvin–Helmholtz instability and turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 966. 13 indexed citations
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Moum, James N., William D. Smyth, Kenneth Hughes, et al.. (2023). Wind Dependencies of Deep Cycle Turbulence in the Equatorial Cold Tongues. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 53(8). 1979–1995. 8 indexed citations
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Moum, James N., Kenneth Hughes, E. Shroyer, et al.. (2022). Deep Cycle Turbulence in Atlantic and Pacific Cold Tongues. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(8). 13 indexed citations
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Liu, Chuanyu, et al.. (2019). The Subsurface Mode Tropical Instability Waves in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean and Their Impacts on Shear and Mixing. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(21). 12270–12278. 14 indexed citations
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Smyth, William D., Jonathan D. Nash, & James N. Moum. (2019). Self-organized criticality in geophysical turbulence. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 3747–3747. 70 indexed citations
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Smyth, William D.. (2019). All Things Flow: Fluid Mechanics for the Natural Sciences. 2 indexed citations
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Moum, James N., Kandaga Pujiana, Ren‐Chieh Lien, & William D. Smyth. (2016). Ocean feedback to pulses of the Madden–Julian Oscillation in the equatorial Indian Ocean. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13203–13203. 31 indexed citations
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Pujiana, Kandaga, et al.. (2015). Distinguishing ichthyogenic turbulence from geophysical turbulence. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 120(5). 3792–3804. 14 indexed citations
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Thorpe, S. A., William D. Smyth, & Lin Li. (2013). The effect of small viscosity and diffusivity on the marginal stability of stably stratified shear flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 731. 461–476. 23 indexed citations
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Smyth, William D. & James N. Moum. (2013). Marginal instability and deep cycle turbulence in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 40(23). 6181–6185. 96 indexed citations
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Moum, James N., Jody Klymak, Jonathan D. Nash, A. Perlin, & William D. Smyth. (2007). Energy Transport by Nonlinear Internal Waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 37(7). 1968–1988. 140 indexed citations
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Smyth, William D., et al.. (2007). Shear and Convective Turbulence in a Model of Thermohaline Intrusions. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 37(10). 2534–2549. 14 indexed citations
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Smyth, William D., Jeffrey R. Carpenter, & Gregory A. Lawrence. (2007). Mixing in Symmetric Holmboe Waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 37(6). 1566–1583. 42 indexed citations
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Smyth, William D., Jonathan D. Nash, & James N. Moum. (2005). Differential Diffusion in Breaking Kelvin–Helmholtz Billows. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 35(6). 1004–1022. 59 indexed citations
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Skyllingstad, Eric D., William D. Smyth, & G. B. Crawford. (2000). Resonant Wind-Driven Mixing in the Ocean Boundary Layer. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 30(8). 1866–1890. 86 indexed citations
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Smyth, William D.. (1999). Dissipation-range geometry and scalar spectra in sheared stratified turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 401. 209–242. 59 indexed citations
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Smyth, William D. & W. R. Peltier. (1989). The Transition between Kelvin–Helmholtz and Holmboe Instability: An Investigation of the Overreflection Hypothesis. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 46(24). 3698–3720. 58 indexed citations

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