Wallace K. Melville - Publications

Affiliations: 
Oceanography University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 
Area:
Physical Oceanography, Marine and Ocean Engineering, Computer Science

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2016 Pizzo NE, Melville WK. Wave modulation: The geometry, kinematics, and dynamics of surface-wave packets Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 803: 292-312. DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2016.473  0.501
2016 Pizzo NE, Deike L, Melville WK. Current generation by deep-water breaking waves Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 803: 275-291. DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2016.469  0.526
2016 Deike L, Melville WK, Popinet S. Air entrainment and bubble statistics in breaking waves Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 801: 91-129. DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2016.372  0.526
2015 Deike L, Popinet S, Melville WK. Capillary effects on wave breaking Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 769: 541-569. DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2015.103  0.591
2015 Melville WK, Fedorov AV. The equilibrium dynamics and statistics of gravity-capillary waves Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 767: 449-466. DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2014.740  0.616
2013 Pizzo NE, Melville WK. Vortex generation by deep-water breaking waves Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 734: 198-218. DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2013.453  0.613
2013 Sutherland P, Melville WK. Field measurements and scaling of ocean surface wave-breaking statistics Geophysical Research Letters. 40: 3074-3079. DOI: 10.1002/grl.50584  0.685
2012 Huang ZC, Reineman BD, Lenain L, Melville WK, Middleton JH. Airborne lidar measurements of wave energy dissipation in a coral reef lagoon system Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 117. DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007203  0.53
2012 Huang ZC, Lenain L, Melville WK, Middleton JH, Reineman B, Statom N, McCabe RM. Dissipation of wave energy and turbulence in a shallow coral reef lagoon Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 117. DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007202  0.51
2012 Huang ZC, Hwang KS, Lenain L, Melville WK, Hwung HH. Measurements of surface kinematics and temperature in the surf and swash zones using infrared image velocimetry Proceedings of the Coastal Engineering Conference 0.504
2011 Romero L, Melville WK. Spatial statistics of the sea surface in fetch-limited conditions Journal of Physical Oceanography. 41: 1821-1841. DOI: 10.1175/2011JPO4535.1  0.656
2011 Kleiss JM, Melville WK. The analysis of sea surface imagery for whitecap kinematics Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 28: 219-243. DOI: 10.1175/2010Jtecho744.1  0.507
2011 Veron F, Melville WK, Lenain L. The effects of small-scale turbulence on air-sea heat flux Journal of Physical Oceanography. 41: 205-220. DOI: 10.1175/2010Jpo4491.1  0.337
2010 Kleiss JM, Melville WK. Observations of wave breaking kinematics in fetch-limited seas Journal of Physical Oceanography. 40: 2575-2604. DOI: 10.1175/2010Jpo4383.1  0.509
2010 Romero L, Melville WK. Numerical modeling of fetch-limited waves in the Gulf of Tehuantepec Journal of Physical Oceanography. 40: 466-486. DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4128.1  0.557
2010 Romero L, Melville WK. Airborne observations of fetch-limited waves in the gulf of tehuantepec Journal of Physical Oceanography. 40: 441-465. DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4127.1  0.619
2010 Romero L, Melville WK. Observations and modeling of linear and nonlinear spatio-temporal surface wave statistics Proceedings of the International Conference On Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - Omae. 2: 773-785. DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2010-21101  0.626
2009 Reineman BD, Lenain L, Castel D, Melville WK. A portable airborne scanning lidar system for ocean and coastal applications Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 26: 2626-2641. DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHO703.1  0.481
2009 Fedorov AV, Melville WK. A model of strongly forced wind waves Journal of Physical Oceanography. 39: 2502-2522. DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4155.1  0.46
2009 Veron F, Melville WK, Lenain L. Measurements of ocean surface turbulence and wave-turbulence interactions Journal of Physical Oceanography. 39: 2310-2323. DOI: 10.1175/2009Jpo4019.1  0.532
2009 Drazen DA, Melville WK. Turbulence and mixing in unsteady breaking surface waves Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 628: 85-119. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009006120  0.473
2008 Veron F, Melville WK, Lenain L. Infrared techniques for measuring ocean surface processes Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 25: 307-326. DOI: 10.1175/2007Jtecho524.1  0.359
2008 Veron F, Melville WK, Lenain L. Wave-coherent air-sea heat flux Journal of Physical Oceanography. 38: 788-802. DOI: 10.1175/2007Jpo3682.1  0.478
2008 Melville WK, Romero L, Kleiss J. Observations of surface waves and wave breaking: A tribute to Nick Newman Proceedings of the International Conference On Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - Omae. 6: 239-245. DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2008-57490  0.659
2008 Grue J, Romero L, Kleiss J, Melville WK. Orbital velocity in spatial ocean wave elevation measurement: Nonlinear computation and approximation Proceedings of the International Conference On Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - Omae. 6: 134-141. DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2008-57205  0.574
2008 Drazen DA, Melville WK, Lenain L. Inertial scaling of dissipation in unsteady breaking waves Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 611: 307-332. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008002826  0.627
2008 Melville WK. Surface Gravity And Capillary Waves Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences: Second Edition. 573-581. DOI: 10.1016/B978-012374473-9.00129-6  0.571
2007 Sullivan PP, McWilliams JC, Melville WK. Surface gravity wave effects in the oceanic boundary layer: Large-eddy simulation with vortex force and stochastic breakers Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 593: 405-452. DOI: 10.1017/S002211200700897X  0.581
2006 Helfrich KR, Melville WK. Long nonlinear internal waves Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 38: 395-425. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.38.050304.092129  0.468
2005 Young IR, Banner ML, Donelan MA, Babanin AV, Melville WK, Veron F, McCormick C. An integrated system for the study of wind-wave source terms in finite-depth water Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 22: 814-831. DOI: 10.1175/Jtech1726.1  0.54
2004 Melville WK, Felizardo FC, Matusov P. Wave slope and wave age effects in measurements of electromagnetic bias Journal of Geophysical Research C: Oceans. 109. DOI: 10.1029/2002JC001708  0.642
2004 Sullivan PP, McWilliams JC, Melville WK. The oceanic boundary layer driven by wave breaking with stochastic variability. Part 1. Direct numerical simulations Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 143-174. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112004008882  0.537
2003 Kumar R, Stammer D, Melville WK, Janssen P. Electromagnetic bias estimates based on TOPEX, buoy, and wave model data Journal of Geophysical Research C: Oceans. 108. DOI: 10.1029/2002JC001525  0.555
2002 Melville WK, Matusov P. Distribution of breaking waves at the ocean surface. Nature. 417: 58-63. PMID 11986664 DOI: 10.1038/417058a  0.691
2002 Melville WK, Veron F, White CJ. The velocity field under breaking waves: Coherent structures and turbulence Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 454: 203-233. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112001007078  0.539
2001 Terrill EJ, Melville WK, Stramski D. Bubble entrainment by breaking waves and their influence on optical scattering in the upper ocean Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 106: 16815-16823. DOI: 10.1029/2000Jc000496  0.486
2001 Veron F, Melville WK. Experiments on the stability and transition of wind-driven water surfaces Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 446: 25-65. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112001005638  0.59
2001 Veron F, Melville WK. Remote observations of the initial generation of surface waves International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (Igarss). 2: 961-963.  0.652
2000 Terrill EJ, Melville WK. A broadband acoustic technique for measuring bubble size distributions: Laboratory and shallow water measurements Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 17: 220-239.  0.394
1999 Veron F, Melville WK. Pulse-to-pulse coherent doppler measurements of waves and turbulence Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 16: 1580-1597. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(1999)016<1580:Ptpcdm>2.0.Co;2  0.553
1999 Rozenberg AD, Ritter MJ, Melville WK, Gottschall CC, Smirnov AV. Free and bound capillary waves as microwave scatterers: Laboratory studies Ieee Transactions On Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 37: 1052-1065. DOI: 10.1109/36.752223  0.549
1998 Melville WK, Shear R, Veron F. Laboratory measurements of the generation and evolution of Langmuir circulations Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 364: 31-58. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112098001098  0.375
1998 Rozenberg A, Matusov P, Melville WK. Polarized microwave scattering by surface water waves and turbulence International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (Igarss). 4: 2273-2275.  0.52
1998 Fedorov AV, Melville WK, Rozenberg A. An experimental and numerical study of parasitic capillary waves Physics of Fluids. 10: 1315-1323.  0.553
1998 Rogers DP, Dorman CE, Edwards KA, Brooks IM, Melville WK, Burk SD, Thompson WT, Holt T, Ström LM, Tjernström M, Grisogono B, Bane JM, Nuss WA, Morley BM, Schanot AJ. Highlights of Coastal Waves 1996 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 79: 1307-1326.  0.395
1998 Fedorov AV, Melville WK. Nonlinear gravity-capillary waves with forcing and dissipation Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 354: 1-42.  0.581
1997 Terrill E, Melville WK. Sound-speed measurements in the surface-wave layer Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 102: 2607-2625. DOI: 10.1121/1.420315  0.536
1997 Rozenberg A, Quigley D, Ritter M, Melville WK. Laboratory study of polarized microwave scattering from steep waves at grazing incidence International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (Igarss). 2: 711-713.  0.524
1996 Melville WK. The role of surface-wave breaking in air-sea interaction Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 28: 279-321.  0.64
1996 Rozenberg A, Melville WK, Ritter M. Laboratory study of the fine structure of breaking waves for scatterometry applications International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (Igarss). 4: 2204-2206.  0.57
1996 Fedorov AV, Melville WK. Hydraulic jumps at boundaries in rotating fluids Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 324: 55-82.  0.328
1995 Rozenberg AD, Quigley DC, Melville WK. Laboratory Study of Polarized Scattering by Surface Waves at Grazing Incidence: Part I—Wind Waves Ieee Transactions On Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 33: 1037-1046. DOI: 10.1109/36.406689  0.451
1995 Melville WK, Rozenberg AD, Quigley DC. Laboratory study of polarized microwave scattering at grazing incidence International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (Igarss). 2: 951-953.  0.411
1995 Arnold DV, Melville WK, Stewart RH, Kong JA, Keller WC, Lamarre E. Measurements of electromagnetic bias at Ku and C bands Journal of Geophysical Research. 100: 969-980.  0.339
1995 Fedorov AV, Melville WK. Propagation and breaking of nonlinear Kelvin waves Journal of Physical Oceanography. 25: 2518-2531.  0.52
1994 Lamarrea E, Melville WK. Sound-speed measurements near the ocean surface Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 96: 3605-3616. DOI: 10.1121/1.410578  0.308
1994 Loewen MR, Melville WK. An Experimental Investigation of the Collective Oscillations of Bubble Plumes Entrained by Breaking Waves Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 95: 1329-1343. DOI: 10.1121/1.408573  0.391
1994 Melville WK. Energy dissipation by breaking waves Journal of Physical Oceanography. 24: 2041-2049.  0.502
1992 Lamarre E, Melville WK. Instrumentation for the Measurement of Void-Fraction in Breaking Waves: Laboratory and Field Results Ieee Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 17: 204-215. DOI: 10.1109/48.126977  0.536
1992 Zhang J, Melville WK. On the stability of weakly nonlinear short waves on finite–amplitude long gravity waves Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 243: 51-72. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112092002635  0.465
1992 Renouard DP, Tomasson GG, Melville WK. An experimental and numerical study of nonlinear internal waves Physics of Fluids A. 5: 1401-1411.  0.402
1991 Loewen MR, Melville WK. A model of the sound generated by breaking waves Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 90: 2075-2080. DOI: 10.1121/1.401634  0.347
1991 Loewen MR, Melville WK. Microwave backscatter and acoustic radiation from breaking waves Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 224: 601-623. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112091001891  0.429
1991 Zhou D, Chan ES, Melville WK. Wave impact pressures on vertical cylinders Applied Ocean Research. 13: 220-234. DOI: 10.1016/S0141-1187(05)80046-X  0.426
1991 Jessup AT, Melville WK, Keller WC. Breaking waves affecting microwave backscatter 2. Dependence on wind and wave conditions Journal of Geophysical Research. 96.  0.528
1991 Jessup AT, Melville WK, Keller WC. Breaking waves affecting microwave backscatter 1. Detection and verification Journal of Geophysical Research. 96.  0.527
1991 Melville WK. Measurements of electromagnetic bias in radar altimetry Journal of Geophysical Research. 96: 4915-4924.  0.573
1991 Lamarre E, Melville WK. Air entrainment and dissipation in breaking waves Nature. 351: 469-472.  0.536
1990 Zhang J, Melville WK. Evolution of weakly nonlinear short waves riding on long gravity waves Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 214: 321-346. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112090000155  0.403
1990 Tomasson GG, Melville WK. Nonlinear and dispersive effects in Kelvin waves Physics of Fluids A. 2: 189-193.  0.484
1990 Melville WK, Arnold DV, Stewart RH, Keller WC, Kong JA, Jessup AT, Lamarre E. Measurements of EM bias at Ku and C bands Oceans Conference Record (Ieee). 181-186.  0.496
1990 Jessup AT, Melville WK, Keller WC. Sea spikes in moderate incidence backscatter: Their relationship to wave breaking and dependence on wind and wave conditions Digest - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (Igarss). 765.  0.56
1989 Melville WK, Renouard DP, Tomasson GG. On the stability of kelvin waves Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 206: 1-23. DOI: 10.1017/S002211208900220X  0.431
1989 Melville WK, Kong JA, Stewart RH, Keller WC, Jessup AT, Arnold D, Slinn A. The measurement and modelling of seat-state bias in SAXON Digest - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (Igarss). 3: 1922-1925.  0.468
1989 Chan ES, Melville WK. Plunging wave forces on surface-piercing structures Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. 111: 92-100.  0.432
1988 Melville WK, Loewen MR, Felizardo FC, Jessup AT, Buckingham MJ. Acoustic and microwave signatures of breaking waves Nature. 336: 54-56. DOI: 10.1038/336054A0  0.599
1988 Melville WK, Rapp RJ. The surface velocity field in steep and breaking waves Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 189: 1-22. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112088000898  0.618
1988 Chan ES, Melville WK. DEEP-WATER PLUNGING WAVE PRESSURES ON A VERTICAL PLANE WALL Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series a: Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 417: 95-131.  0.352
1987 Zhang J, Melville WK. Three-dimensional instabilities of nonlinear gravity—capillary waves Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 174: 187-208. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112087000090  0.486
1987 Chan ES, Melville WK. PLUNGING WAVE FORCES ON SURFACE PIERCING STRUCTURES Proceedings of the International Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering Symposium. 2: 61-72.  0.418
1986 Zhang J, Melville WK. On the stability of weakly-nonlinear gravity-capillary waves Wave Motion. 8: 439-454. DOI: 10.1016/0165-2125(86)90029-6  0.473
1985 Melville WK, Rapp RJ. Momentum flux in breaking waves Nature. 317: 514-516. DOI: 10.1038/317514a0  0.613
1984 Helfrich KR, Miles JW, Melville WK. On interfacial solitary waves over slowly varying topography Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 149: 305-317. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112084002664  0.474
1984 Shum KT, Melville WK. ESTIMATES OF THE JOINT STATISTICS OF AMPLITUDES AND PERIODS OF OCEAN WAVES USING AN INTEGRAL TRANSFORM TECHNIQUE Journal of Geophysical Research. 89: 6467-6476.  0.526
1984 Chan ES, Melville WK. DEEPWATER BREAKING WAVE FORCES ON SURFACE PIERCING STRUCTURES Oceans Conference Record (Ieee). 565-570.  0.46
1983 Melville WK. Wave modulation and breakdown Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 128: 489-506. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112083000579  0.391
1980 Melville WK. On the Mach reflexion of a solitary wave Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 98: 285-297. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112080000158  0.474
1979 Chang P, Melville WK, Miles JW. On the evolution of a solitary wave in a gradually varying channel Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 95: 401-414. DOI: 10.1017/S002211207900152X  0.337
1977 Melville WK. Wind stress and roughness length over breaking waves J. Phys. Oceanogr.. 7: 702-710.  0.657
1977 Buchwald VT, Melville WK. Resonance of shelf waves near islands 0.497
1966 Banner ML, Melville WK. On the separation of air flow over water waves Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 77: 825-842.  0.546
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