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Alistair G.L. Borthwick

Alistair G.L. Borthwick

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
61
Citations
11908
World Ranking
2079
National Ranking
139

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
65
Citations
12719
World Ranking
2250
National Ranking
175

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

Alistair G.L. Borthwick is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in engineering, environmental science, and earth and planetary sciences.

Their work spans several subfields, including computational mechanics, ecology, ocean engineering, earth-surface processes, and atmospheric science. The research topics they frequently address include wave and wind energy systems, hydrology and sediment transport processes, fluid dynamics and vibration analysis, coastal and marine dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, flood risk assessment and management, and ocean waves and remote sensing.

Alistair G.L. Borthwick has published in numerous reputable venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Physics of Fluids
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Journal of Fluids and Structures

They have collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Xiaochen Dong
  • De-Min Li
  • Jinren Ni
  • Tianyuan Wang
  • Simone Michele

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Alistair G.L. Borthwick include:

  • High-quality reconstruction of China's natural streamflow, 2021, Science Bulletin
  • Vanadium contamination and associated health risk of farmland soil near smelters throughout China, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Deficiency and excess of groundwater iodine and their health associations, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Solar-light-activated periodate for degradation and detoxification of highly toxic 6PPD-quinone at environmental levels, 2024, Nature Water
  • Supercarriers of antibiotic resistome in a world's large river, 2022, Microbiome

Throughout their career, Borthwick has been recognized by professional organizations with honors such as:

  • Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), 2014
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2015

Best Publications

  • Foundations of offshore wind turbines: A review

    Xiaoni Wu;Yu Hu;Ye Li;Jian Yang

  • Adaptive quadtree simulation of shallow flows with wet-dry fronts over complex topography

    Qiuhua Liang;Alistair G.L. Borthwick

  • A preliminary estimate of human and natural contributions to the changes in water discharge and sediment load in the Yellow River

    Chiyuan Miao;Chiyuan Miao;Jinren Ni;Alistair G.L. Borthwick;Lin Yang

  • Oil field wastewater treatment in Biological Aerated Filter by immobilized microorganisms

    Xin Zhao;Yanming Wang;Zhengfang Ye;Alistair G.L. Borthwick

  • Global heat stress on health, wildfires, and agricultural crops under different levels of climate warming.

    Qiaohong Sun;Chiyuan Miao;Martin Hanel;Alistair G.L. Borthwick

  • Adsorption of Pb2+, Cd2+, Cu2+ and Cr3+ onto titanate nanotubes: Competition and effect of inorganic ions

    Wen Liu;Ting Wang;Alistair G.L. Borthwick;Yanqi Wang

  • Recent changes of water discharge and sediment load in the Yellow River basin, China:

    Chiyuan Miao;Jinren Ni;Alistair G.L. Borthwick

  • Evolution of the Yellow River Delta and its relationship with runoff and sediment load from 1983 to 2011

    Dongxian Kong;Chiyuan Miao;Alistair G.L. Borthwick;Qingyun Duan

  • Global trends in water and sediment fluxes of the world’s large rivers

    Li Li;Jinren Ni;Fang Chang;Yao Yue

  • Mathematical balancing of flux gradient and source terms prior to using Roe's approximate Riemann solver

    Benedict D. Rogers;Alistair G. L. Borthwick;Paul H. Taylor

  • Microbial Community Responses to Vanadium Distributions in Mining Geological Environments and Bioremediation Assessment

    Baogang Zhang;Song Wang;Muhe Diao;Jie Fu

  • Marine Renewable Energy Seascape

    Alistair G.L. Borthwick

  • The available power from tidal stream turbines in the Pentland Firth

    Thomas A. A. Adcock;Scott Draper;Guy T. Houlsby;Alistair G. L. Borthwick

  • Adaptive Q-tree Godunov-type scheme for shallow water equations

    Ben Rogers;Masayuki Fujihara;Alistair G. L. Borthwick

  • Palm oil mill effluent treatment using a two-stage microbial fuel cells system integrated with immobilized biological aerated filters.

    Jia Cheng;Xiuping Zhu;Jinren Ni;Alistair Borthwick

  • Enrichment and characterization of a bacteria consortium capable of heterotrophic nitrification and aerobic denitrification at low temperature.

    Shuo Yao;Jinren Ni;Qian Chen;Alistair G.L. Borthwick

  • Measurement and assessment of carrying capacity of the environment in Ningbo, China

    R.Z. Liu;Alistair G.L. Borthwick

  • Lateral transport of soil carbon and land-atmosphere CO2 flux induced by water erosion in China.

    Yao Yue;Yao Yue;Jinren Ni;Philippe Ciais;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao

  • Simulation of dam- and dyke-break hydrodynamics on dynamically adaptive quadtree grids

    Q. Liang;A. G. L. Borthwick;G. Stelling

  • High-quality reconstruction of China’s natural streamflow

    Chiyuan Miao;Jiaojiao Gou;Bojie Fu;Bojie Fu;Qiuhong Tang

  • Social and ecological impacts of marine energy development

    Paul A.J. Bonar;Ian G. Bryden;Alistair G.L. Borthwick

Frequent Co-Authors

Jinren Ni
Jinren Ni Peking University
Chiyuan Miao
Chiyuan Miao Beijing Normal University
Qiuhua Liang
Qiuhua Liang Loughborough University
Guy T. Houlsby
Guy T. Houlsby University of Oxford
Wen Liu
Wen Liu Peking University
Baogang Zhang
Baogang Zhang China University of Geosciences
R. Eatock Taylor
R. Eatock Taylor University of Oxford
Peter Stansby
Peter Stansby University of Manchester
Zhixian Cao
Zhixian Cao Wuhan University
Qingyun Duan
Qingyun Duan Hohai University

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