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W. Kendall Melville

W. Kendall Melville publishes mostly in Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Coastal and Marine Dynamics and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

World rank
#76,751
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#34,304
of 358,040
Works
40
Citations
374
Citations per work
9.4

What does W. Kendall Melville research?

Oceanography: 38.2%Earth-Surface Processes: 20.0%Atmospheric Science: 10.9%Ocean Engineering: 7.3%other fields: 23.6%38%top field
Oceanography38.2%Earth-Surface Processes20.0%Atmospheric Science10.9%Ocean Engineering7.3%other fields23.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Oceanography38% of their works
  2. 2Earth-Surface Processes20% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science11% of their works
  4. 4Ocean Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics6% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. Kendall Melville's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Wave Modeling, Tropical Cyclones, Ocean Waves, Wind Stress, Sediment Transport, Coastal Dynamics, Sea-Level Rise and Data Assimilation.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Wave Modeling212 topics
  2. Tropical Cyclones172 topics
  3. Ocean Waves121 topic
  4. Wind Stress121 topic
  5. Sediment Transport102 topics
  6. Coastal Dynamics91 topic
  7. Sea-Level Rise91 topic
  8. Data Assimilation72 topics
  9. Climate Change62 topics
  10. Ocean Circulation61 topic
  11. Oceanic Modeling61 topic
  12. Hurricanes51 topic
  13. Storm Surge51 topic
  14. SPH Method21 topic
  15. Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics21 topic
  16. Aeolian Processes11 topic
  17. Convective Parameterization11 topic
  18. Ensemble Kalman Filter11 topic
  19. Nonlinear Estimation11 topic
  20. Particle Filters11 topic
  21. Wind Erosion11 topic

Where does W. Kendall Melville work?

W. Kendall Melville's main affiliation in the publication record is Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States.

How many publications and citations does W. Kendall Melville have?

Science Explorer counts 40 works and 374 citations for W. Kendall Melville, ranking #76,751 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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