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Researcher · Scripps Institution of Oceanography · United States

Walter Munk

Walter Munk publishes mostly in Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Geophysics, on topics such as Underwater Acoustics Research, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#27,055
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#12,689
of 358,040
Works
49
Citations
447
Citations per work
9.1

What does Walter Munk research?

Oceanography: 40.7%Atmospheric Science: 9.3%Geophysics: 7.4%Ocean Engineering: 7.4%other fields: 35.2%41%top field
Oceanography40.7%Atmospheric Science9.3%Geophysics7.4%Ocean Engineering7.4%other fields35.2%

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

  1. 1Oceanography41% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science9% of their works
  3. 3Geophysics7% of their works
  4. 4Ocean Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Archeology7% of their works
  6. 6Ecology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter Munk's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Acoustic Techniques, Seafloor Mapping, Ocean Circulation, Oceanic Modeling, Tidal Analysis, Holocene and Sea Level.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change114 topics
  2. Acoustic Techniques101 topic
  3. Seafloor Mapping101 topic
  4. Ocean Circulation82 topics
  5. Oceanic Modeling51 topic
  6. Tidal Analysis51 topic
  7. Holocene42 topics
  8. Sea Level42 topics
  9. Anthropogenic Noise31 topic
  10. Arctic31 topic
  11. GRACE31 topic
  12. Marine Mammals31 topic
  13. Sea Ice31 topic
  14. Sea Level Rise31 topic
  15. Black Sea21 topic
  16. Full-Waveform Tomography21 topic
  17. Glacial Cycles21 topic
  18. Paleoclimatology21 topic
  19. Seismic Waveform Inversion21 topic
  20. paleoceanography21 topic

Where does Walter Munk work?

Walter Munk's main affiliation in the publication record is Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States.

How many publications and citations does Walter Munk have?

Science Explorer counts 49 works and 447 citations for Walter Munk, ranking #27,055 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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