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Kelvin J. Richards is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Environmental Science. Within these broad fields, their work concentrates on several subfields including Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research covers key topics such as Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate Variability and Models, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Kelvin J. Richards has contributed to multiple publications across various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans (6 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (3 publications)
  • Ocean Modelling (1 publication)
  • Biogeosciences (1 publication)
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles (1 publication)

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Richards include:

  • The Impact of Climate Change on Ocean Submesoscale Activity, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • The impact of vertical resolution in reducing biases in sea surface temperature in a tropical Pacific Ocean model, 2020, Ocean Modelling
  • Formation Mechanism of Warm SST Anomalies in 2010s Around Hawaii, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Effects of High-Frequency Flow Variability on the Pathways of the Indonesian Throughflow, 2023, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Variations on Timescales of Days Observed in the Western Tropical Pacific Warm Pool During Mid-March 2020, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Richards frequently collaborates with several co-authors including:

  • Genevieve Brett (6 joint publications)
  • Daniel Whitt (5 joint publications)
  • H. Annamalai (4 joint publications)
  • Frank O. Bryan (3 joint publications)
  • Kate Feloy (3 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Turbulent shear flows over low hills

    J. C. R. Hunt;S. Leibovich;K. J. Richards

  • Mechanisms for vertical nutrient transport within a North Atlantic mesoscale eddy

    Adrian P. Martin;Kelvin J. Richards

  • The formation of ripples and dunes on an erodible bed

    Kelvin J. Richards

  • Air flow over a two-dimensional hill: studies of velocity speed-up, roughness effects and turbulence

    R. E. Britter;J. C. R. Hunt;K. J. Richards

  • Observational evidence of alternating zonal jets in the world ocean

    N. A. Maximenko;K. J. Richards;B. Bang;H. Sasaki

  • Does eddy-eddy interaction control surface phytoplankton distribution and carbon export in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre?

    Lionel Guidi;Paulo H. R. Calil;Paulo H. R. Calil;Solange Duhamel;Karin M. Björkman

  • Dynamics of the Indian-Ocean oxygen minimum zones

    Julian P. McCreary;Zuojun Yu;Raleigh R. Hood;P.N. Vinaychandran

  • The Southwest Pacific Ocean circulation and climate experiment (SPICE)

    Alexandre Ganachaud;Sophie Cravatte;A. Melet;A. Melet;A. Schiller

  • Patchy productivity in the open ocean

    Adrian P. Martin;Kelvin J. Richards;Annalisa Bracco;Antonello Provenzale

  • Comparative ecology of over-wintering Calanus finmarchicus in the northern North Atlantic, and implications for life-cycle patterns

    Michael R. Heath;Peter R. Boyle;Astthor Gislason;William S.C. Gurney

  • Observations of the North Equatorial Current, Mindanao Current, and Kuroshio current system during the 2006/07 El Niño and 2007/08 La Niña

    Yuji Kashino;Norievill España;Fadli Syamsudin;Kelvin J. Richards

  • Stably stratified shear flow over low hills

    J. C. R. Hunt;K. J. Richards;P. W. M. Brighton

  • Zonal jets in the Pacific Ocean

    K. J. Richards;N. A. Maximenko;F. O. Bryan;H. Sasaki

  • A Regional Ocean–Atmosphere Model for Eastern Pacific Climate: Toward Reducing Tropical Biases*

    Shang Ping Xie;Toru Miyama;Yuqing Wang;Haiming Xu;Haiming Xu

  • Transient upwelling hot spots in the oligotrophic North Pacific

    P. H. R. Calil;K. J. Richards

  • Eddy activity in the lee of the Hawaiian Islands

    Paulo H.R. Calil;Kelvin J. Richards;Yanli Jia;Robert R. Bidigare

  • Oceanic thermohaline intrusions: observations

    Barry Ruddick;Kelvin Richards

  • Plankton patchiness and its effect on larger-scale productivity

    Stuart J. Brentnall;Kelvin J. Richards;John Brindley;Eugene Murphy

  • Flow and mixing in the rift valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

    A M Thurnherr;K J Richards;C R German;Gregory Lane-Serff

  • A numerical model of mesoscale frontal instabilities and plankton dynamics — I. Model formulation and initial experiments

    S.A. Spall;K.J. Richards

  • A Lagrangian SF6 tracer study of an anticyclonic eddy in the North Atlantic: patch evolution, vertical mixing and nutrient supply to the mixed layer

    C.S. Law;A.P. Martin;M.I. Liddicoat;A.J. Watson

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian P. Martin
Adrian P. Martin National Oceanography Centre
Hideharu Sasaki
Hideharu Sasaki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Julian P. McCreary
Julian P. McCreary University of Hawaii at Manoa
Frank O. Bryan
Frank O. Bryan National Center for Atmospheric Research
Shang-Ping Xie
Shang-Ping Xie University of California, San Diego
Yukio Masumoto
Yukio Masumoto University of Tokyo
Niklas Schneider
Niklas Schneider University of Hawaii at Manoa
David M. Karl
David M. Karl University of Hawaii at Manoa
Andrew F. Thompson
Andrew F. Thompson California Institute of Technology

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