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Environmental Sciences
Australia
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
65
Citations
15484
World Ranking
2199
National Ranking
88

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Ian R. Young is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has a research focus primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work explores a range of subfields including Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change, and Ocean Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Climate variability and models, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and Wave and Wind Energy Systems.

Frequently publishing in various academic venues, Ian R. Young has contributed significantly to sources such as Swinburne Research Bank at Swinburne University of Technology, Coastal Engineering Proceedings, Scientific Reports, Scientific Data, and Remote Sensing.

Among recent publications, key papers include:

  • "Projections of global-scale extreme sea levels and resulting episodic coastal flooding over the 21st Century" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "Projected 21st century changes in extreme wind-wave events" (2020, Science Advances)
  • "The Sea State CCI dataset v1: towards a sea state climate data record based on satellite observations" (2020, Earth system science data)
  • "The Wave Climate of the Southern Ocean" (2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography)
  • "140 Years of Global Ocean Wind-Wave Climate Derived from CMIP6 ACCESS-CM2 and EC-Earth3 GCMs: Global Trends, Regional Changes, and Future Projections" (2022, Journal of Climate)

Ian R. Young has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Alberto Meucci, Alexander V. Babanin, Mark Hemer, Agustinus Ribal, and Jin Liu. The frequency of collaboration with Alberto Meucci and Alexander V. Babanin reaches 23 joint works each, with other coauthors numbering between 10 and 13 collaborations.

Best Publications

  • Global Trends in Wind Speed and Wave Height

    Ian Young;S Zieger;Alexander Babanin

  • Wind Generated Ocean Waves

    Ian R. young

  • A three-dimensional analysis of marine radar images for the determination of ocean wave directionality and surface currents

    Ian R. Young;W. Rosenthal;F. Ziemer

  • Projections of global-scale extreme sea levels and resulting episodic coastal flooding over the 21st Century

    Ebru Kirezci;Ian R. Young;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Sanne Muis

  • Wave Modelling - The State of the Art

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

  • Multiplatform evaluation of global trends in wind speed and wave height

    Ian R. Young;Agustinus Ribal;Agustinus Ribal

  • Seasonal variability of the global ocean wind and wave climate

    I.R. Young

  • The growth of fetch limited waves in water of finite depth. Part 1. Total energy and peak frequency

    I.R. Young;L.A. Verhagen

  • Robustness and uncertainties in global multivariate wind-wave climate projections

    Joao Morim;Joao Morim;Joao Morim;Mark Hemer;Xiaolan L. Wang;Nick Cartwright

  • 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

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

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

  • Breaking Probability for Dominant Waves on the Sea Surface

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

  • Wave-driven flow over shallow reefs

    Graham Symonds;Kerry P. Black;Ian R. Young

  • 33 years of globally calibrated wave height and wind speed data based on altimeter observations

    Agustinus Ribal;Ian R. Young

  • Directional spectra of hurricane wind waves

    Ian R. Young

  • Joint Calibration of Multiplatform Altimeter Measurements of Wind Speed and Wave Height over the Past 20 Years

    S. Zieger;J. Vinoth;I. R. Young

  • Parametric Hurricane Wave Prediction Model

    Ian R. Young

  • Field study of wave attenuation on an offshore coral reef

    Thomas A. Hardy;Ian R. Young

  • WAVE TRANSFORMATION OVER CORAL REEFS

    Ir Young

  • Modeling Spectral Dissipation in the Evolution of Wind Waves. Part I: Assessment of Existing Model Performance

    M. L. Banner;I. R. Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander V. Babanin
Alexander V. Babanin University of Melbourne
Michael L. Banner
Michael L. Banner University of New South Wales
Mark A. Donelan
Mark A. Donelan University of Miami
Mark Hemer
Mark Hemer CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Roshanka Ranasinghe
Roshanka Ranasinghe IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Fabrice Ardhuin
Fabrice Ardhuin French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Paul A. Hwang
Paul A. Hwang United States Naval Research Laboratory
Judith Wolf
Judith Wolf National Oceanography Centre
Klaus Hasselmann
Klaus Hasselmann Max Planck Society
Fangli Qiao
Fangli Qiao Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

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