2026 Kwok Fai Cheung: 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	48	5564	5334	2032	1881	168	8213

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - IEEE Fellow For development and implementation of energy and market management systems for control centers

Overview

Kwok Fai Cheung is a researcher affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to geophysics, oceanography, atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, and ocean engineering.

The scholar's research domains focus on earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, ocean waves and remote sensing, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, coastal and marine dynamics, and seismic waves and analysis.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kwok Fai Cheung include Thorne Lay, Yoshiki Yamazaki, Yefei Bai, Lingling Ye, and Zhaoqing Yang. Their research has been published repeatedly in prominent venues such as Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Renewable Energy, Nature Communications, and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

The 22 July 2020 M 7.8 Shumagin seismic gap earthquake: Partial rupture of a weakly coupled megathrust (2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
Dynamic Sea Level Variation From GNSS: 2020 Shumagin Earthquake Tsunami Resonance and Hurricane Laura (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
Rupture Model for the 29 July 2021 M_W 8.2 Chignik, Alaska Earthquake Constrained by Seismic, Geodetic, and Tsunami Observations (2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth)
Wave energy resources assessment for the multi-modal sea state of Hawaii (2021, Renewable Energy)
Fast and slow intraplate ruptures during the 19 October 2020 magnitude 7.6 Shumagin earthquake (2023, Nature Communications)

Kwok Fai Cheung has been recognized with the IEEE Fellow award in 2014 for contributions involving the development and implementation of energy and market management systems for control centers.

Best Publications

Depth‐integrated, non‐hydrostatic model for wave breaking and run‐up

Yoshiki Yamazaki;Zygmunt Kowalik;Kwok Fai Cheung

365
Citations
HOMOTOPY ANALYSIS OF NONLINEAR PROGRESSIVE WAVES IN DEEP WATER

Shi-Jun Liao;Kwok Fai Cheung

354
Citations
Intercomparison of wind and wave data from the ECMWF Reanalysis Interim and the NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis

Justin E. Stopa;Kwok Fai Cheung

354
Citations
Atlas of global wave energy from 10 years of reanalysis and hindcast data

Randi A. Arinaga;Kwok Fai Cheung

332
Citations
Multiquadric Solution for Shallow Water Equations

Yiu-Chung Hon;Kwok Fai Cheung;Xian-Zhong Mao;Edward J. Kansa

306
Citations
Boussinesq-type model for energetic breaking waves in fringing reef environments

Volker Roeber;Kwok Fai Cheung

258
Citations
Shock-capturing Boussinesq-type model for nearshore wave processes

Volker Roeber;Kwok Fai Cheung;Marcelo H. Kobayashi

255
Citations
Depth-integrated, non-hydrostatic model with grid nesting for tsunami generation, propagation, and runup

Kwok Fai Cheung;Yoshiki Yamazaki

229
Citations
Modeling of tropical cyclone winds and waves for emergency management

Amal C. Phadke;Christopher D. Martino;Kwok Fai Cheung;Samuel H. Houston

204
Citations
Assessment of wave energy resources in Hawaii

Justin E. Stopa;Kwok Fai Cheung;Yi-Leng Chen

193
Citations
Shelf resonance and impact of near‐field tsunami generated by the 2010 Chile earthquake

Yoshiki Yamazaki;Kwok Fai Cheung

171
Citations
Patterns and cycles in the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis wind and wave data

Justin E. Stopa;Kwok Fai Cheung;Hendrik L. Tolman;Arun Chawla

153
Citations
Modeling near-field tsunami observations to improve finite-fault slip models for the 11 March 2011 Tohoku earthquake

Y. Yamazaki;T. Lay;K. F. Cheung;H. Yue

150
Citations
Modeling of storm-induced coastal flooding for emergency management

K.F. Cheung;A.C. Phadke;Y. Wei;R. Rojas

149
Citations
The 25 October 2010 Mentawai tsunami earthquake (Mw 7.8) and the tsunami hazard presented by shallow megathrust ruptures

T. Lay;C. J. Ammon;H. Kanamori;Y. Yamazaki

141
Citations
The October 28, 2012 Mw 7.8 Haida Gwaii underthrusting earthquake and tsunami: Slip partitioning along the Queen Charlotte Fault transpressional plate boundary

Thorne Lay;Lingling Ye;Hiroo Kanamori;Yoshiki Yamazaki

139
Citations
Tropical cyclone inundation potential on the Hawaiian Islands of Oahu and Kauai

Andrew B. Kennedy;Joannes J. Westerink;Jane M. Smith;Mark E. Hope

134
Citations
TIME-DOMAIN SECOND-ORDER WAVE DIFFRACTION IN THREE-DIMENSIONS

Michael Isaacson;Kwok Fai Cheung

131
Citations
Wave energy resources along the Hawaiian Island chain

Justin E. Stopa;Jean-François Filipot;Ning Li;Kwok Fai Cheung

129
Citations
The 16 April 2016, MW 7.8 (MS 7.5) Ecuador earthquake: A quasi-repeat of the 1942 MS 7.5 earthquake and partial re-rupture of the 1906 MS 8.6 Colombia–Ecuador earthquake

Lingling Ye;Hiroo Kanamori;Jean Philippe Avouac;Linyan Li

126
Citations
Inverse Algorithm for Tsunami Forecasts

Yong Wei;Kwok Fai Cheung;George D. Curtis;Charles S. McCreery

124
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Thorne Lay University of California, Santa Cruz

Hiroo Kanamori California Institute of Technology

Joannes J. Westerink University of Notre Dame

Shijun Liao Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Charles J. Ammon Pennsylvania State University

Emma M. Hill Nanyang Technological University

Kerry E Sieh Nanyang Technological University

Luis Rivera University of Strasbourg

Milton Garces University of Hawaii at Manoa

Patrick J. Lynett University of Southern California

External Links

Personal website of Kwok Fai Cheung

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