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Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing

Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing is a research topic within Oceanography. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the dynamics of ocean surface waves, their interaction with wind, and the associated phenomena such as rogue waves, tropical cyclones, and Langmuir turbulence. It covers topics such as wave modeling, wind stress, satellite altimetry, and the impact of surface waves on air-sea interaction.

  • Ocean Waves
  • Wind Stress
  • Wave Climate
  • Rogue Waves
  • Tropical Cyclones
  • Wave Modeling
  • Surface Turbulence
  • Satellite Altimetry
  • Langmuir Turbulence
  • Air-Sea Interaction
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing

Which countries lead Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.9k and 792 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.9k works
  2. 2 United States 792 works
  3. 3 India 326 works
  4. 4 France 302 works
  5. 5 Russia 210 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 198 works
  7. 7 Italy 160 works
  8. 8 Japan 152 works
  9. 9 Germany 132 works
  10. 10 Australia 120 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 44.9%United States: 18.2%India: 7.5%France: 6.9%6 others listed: 22.4%45%largest
China1,949 · 44.9%United States792 · 18.2%India326 · 7.5%France302 · 6.9%6 others listed972 · 22.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 160 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 127 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 115 works
  4. 4 Ocean University of ChinaChina 108 works
  5. 5 Ministry of Natural ResourcesChina 103 works
  6. 6 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 62 works
  7. 7 Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 48 works
  8. 8 National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationUnited States 45 works
  9. 9 China Meteorological AdministrationChina 43 works
  10. 10 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 41 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing include Kai You Wang and J. Mueller.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 J. Mueller France 178k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing?

The most cited paper in Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing is "Numerical Study of Convection Observed during the Winter Monsoon Experiment Using a Mesoscale Two-Dimensional Model" (Jimy Dudhia, 1989), with 5,507 citations. Next come "Efficient Inverse Modeling of Barotropic Ocean Tides" (4,528) and "Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years" (4,094).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Numerical Study of Convection Observed during the Winter Monsoon Experiment Using a Mesoscale Two-Dimensional Model Jimy Dudhia · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Oct 1989 5,507
2 Efficient Inverse Modeling of Barotropic Ocean Tides G. D. Egbert, Svetlana Y. Erofeeva · Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Feb 2002 4,528
3 Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years Kerry Emanuel · Nature 31 Jul 2005 4,094
4 Changes in Tropical Cyclone Number, Duration, and Intensity in a Warming Environment Peter John Webster, Greg J. Holland, Judith A. Curry et al. · Science 15 Sep 2005 3,297
5 Open Ocean Momentum Flux Measurements in Moderate to Strong Winds William G. Large, Stephen F. Pond · Journal of Physical Oceanography Open access Mar 1981 2,823
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing research done?

The largest centres of Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Qingdao (China), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zhoushan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 405 works
  2. 2 QingdaoChina 257 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 149 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 137 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 119 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 90 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 80 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 79 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 76 works
  10. 10 DalianChina 67 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZhoushanCN · 26.9 works25×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing?

Among universities, judged by research, Ocean University of China, Southwest Jiaotong University and Shanghai Ocean University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 15.88%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Southwest Jiaotong U…Shanghai Ocean Unive…Nanjing University o…Ocean University of …
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Ocean University of ChinaChina 62.410.1%44.9×108 +33.3%
2Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 58.733.9%2.7×10 +103.7%
3Shanghai Ocean UniversityChina 57.619.5%25.2×27 +220.0%
4Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 56.510.8%24.9×48 +20.4%
5Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 55.59.2%9.4×30 +34.0%
6National University of Defense TechnologyChina 54.710.8%16.6×62 +65.3%
7Zhejiang Ocean UniversityChina 51.615.5%31.5×25 +34.5%
8Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 51.015.7%11.7×29 +20.7%
9Dalian University of TechnologyChina 50.017.0%9.1×41 +4.3%
10Technical University of DenmarkDenmark 48.516.3%8.8×22 -11.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, country by country

Is Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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