2026 Alexander V. Babanin: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	57	3410	3259	124	119	348	13454

Overview

Alexander V. Babanin is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to the Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. Their research covers multiple subfields including Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change, and Ocean Engineering.

The primary topics explored in their work include:

Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Coastal and Marine Dynamics
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
Climate variability and models
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Alexander V. Babanin's publication record features papers in well-recognized journals. Some recent publications are:

The Wave Climate of the Southern Ocean, 2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography
Global Wave Hindcasts Using the Observation-Based Source Terms: Description and Validation, 2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
The wave climate of Bass Strait and South-East Australia, 2022, Ocean Modelling
Spectral Modeling of Ice-Induced Wave Decay, 2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography
OpenMetBuoy-v2021: An Easy-to-Build, Affordable, Customizable, Open-Source Instrument for Oceanographic Measurements of Drift and Waves in Sea Ice and the Open Ocean, 2022, Geosciences

The frequent coauthors with whom Alexander V. Babanin collaborates include:

Joey Voermans
Qingxiang Liu
Ian R. Young
Jean Rabault
Takehiko Nose

Publication venues where they have contributed most prominently are:

Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
Ocean Modelling
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Alexander V. Babanin's work is focused on understanding the dynamics of ocean waves in different climatic and geographic contexts, including Southern Ocean wave climates and ice-induced wave decay mechanisms. Their contributions also extend to developing and validating oceanographic instrumentation and modeling techniques.

Best Publications

Global Trends in Wind Speed and Wave Height

Ian Young;S Zieger;Alexander Babanin

1193
Citations
Semiempirical Dissipation Source Functions for Ocean Waves. Part I: Definition, Calibration, and Validation

Fabrice Ardhuin;Erick Rogers;Alexander V. Babanin;Jean-Francois Filipot

1142
Citations
Semi-empirical dissipation source functions for ocean waves: Part I, definition, calibration and validation

Fabrice Ardhuin;Erick Rogers;Alexander Babanin;Jean-François Filipot

643
Citations
Wave Modelling - The State of the Art

L. Cavaleri;Jose H. G. M. Alves;F. Ardhuin;Alexander V. Babanin

561
Citations
Breaking and dissipation of ocean surface waves

Alexander V. Babanin

373
Citations
Wave-Follower Field Measurements of the Wind-Input Spectral Function. Part II: Parameterization of the Wind Input

Mark A. Donelan;Alexander V. Babanin;Ian R. Young;Michael L. Banner

296
Citations
Observation-Consistent Input and Whitecapping Dissipation in a Model for Wind-Generated Surface Waves: Description and Simple Calculations

W. Erick Rogers;Alexander V. Babanin;David W. Wang

293
Citations
Observation-based source terms in the third-generation wave model WAVEWATCH

Stefan Zieger;Alexander V. Babanin;W. Erick Rogers;Ian R. Young

273
Citations
Breaking Probability for Dominant Waves on the Sea Surface

Michael L. Banner;Alexander V. Babanin;I. A. N. R. Young

272
Citations
On a wave-induced turbulence and a wave-mixed upper ocean layer

Alexander V. Babanin

267
Citations
Comparison and validation of physical wave parameterizations in spectral wave models

Justin E. Stopa;Fabrice Ardhuin;Alexander Babanin;Stefan Zieger

214
Citations
On the Existence of Water Turbulence Induced by Nonbreaking Surface Waves

Alexander V. Babanin;Brian K. Haus

202
Citations
Spectral Distribution of Energy Dissipation of Wind-Generated Waves due to Dominant Wave Breaking

Ian R. Young;Alexander V. Babanin

187
Citations
Investigation of trends in extreme value wave height and wind speed

Ian Young;J Vinoth;S Zieger;Alexander Babanin

182
Citations
Weakly turbulent laws of wind-wave growth

Sergei I. Badulin;Alexander V. Babanin;Vladimir E. Zakharov;Donald T. Resio

177
Citations
Breaking probabilities for dominant surface waves on water of finite constant depth

Alexander Vladimirovitch Babanin;Ian Robert Young;Michael L. Banner

176
Citations
Maximum steepness of oceanic waves: Field and laboratory experiments

A. Toffoli;A. Babanin;M. Onorato;T. Waseda

175
Citations
In Situ Measurements of an Energetic Wave Event in the Arctic Marginal Ice Zone

Clarence O. Collins;W. Erick Rogers;Aleksey Marchenko;Alexander V. Babanin

166
Citations
Observation-Based Source Terms in the Third-Generation Wave Model WAVEWATCH III: Updates and Verification

Qingxiang Liu;W. Erick Rogers;Alexander V. Babanin;Ian R. Young

164
Citations
Field Investigation of Transformation of the Wind Wave Frequency Spectrum with Fetch and the Stage of Development

Alexander V. Babanin;Yury P. Soloviev

153
Citations
Semi-empirical dissipation source functions for ocean waves: Part I, definition, calibration and validation. Fabrice ArdhuinJean-Francois Filipot and Rudy Magne Service Hydrographique et Oceanographique de la Marine, Brest, France

Erick Rogers;Alexander Babanin;Pierre Queffeulou;Lotfi Aouf

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian R. Young University of Melbourne

Miguel Onorato University of Turin

Fabrice Ardhuin French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea

Michael L. Banner University of New South Wales

Fangli Qiao Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

Jim Thomson University of Washington

Bertrand Chapron French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea

Mark A. Donelan University of Miami

Luigi Cavaleri National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Vladimir E. Zakharov Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics

External Links

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