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William D. Smyth publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William D. Smyth sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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William D. Smyth D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William D. Smyth sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

William D. Smyth is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Smyth's work bridges several subfields, including Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Earth-Surface Processes, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Geological Formations and Processes, and Underwater Acoustics Research.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Smyth include:

  • Marginal Instability and the Efficiency of Ocean Mixing (2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography)
  • Numerical Computation of Instabilities and Internal Waves from In Situ Measurements via the Viscous Taylor-Goldstein Problem (2020, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology)
  • Acoustic Observations of Kelvin-Helmholtz Billows on an Estuarine Lutocline (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)
  • Deep Cycle Turbulence in Atlantic and Pacific Cold Tongues (2022, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Stratified shear instabilities in diurnal warm layers (2021, Journal of Physical Oceanography)

Smyth frequently collaborates with several researchers, among whom are Zhiyu Liu, Alexis Kaminski, Junbiao Tu, Daidu Fan, and James N. Moum, each co-authoring multiple publications with Smyth.

Their contributions appear in key publication venues including:

  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Best Publications

  • Structure and Generation of Turbulence at Interfaces Strained by Internal Solitary Waves Propagating Shoreward over the Continental Shelf

    J. N. Moum;David Farmer;W. D. Smyth;L. Armi

  • The Efficiency of Mixing in Turbulent Patches: Inferences from Direct Simulations and Microstructure Observations

    W. D. Smyth;J. N. Moum;D. R. Caldwell

  • Length scales of turbulence in stably stratified mixing layers

    William D. Smyth;James N. Moum

  • Anisotropy of turbulence in stably stratified mixing layers

    William D. Smyth;James N. Moum

  • Energy Transport by Nonlinear Internal Waves

    J. N. Moum;J. M. Klymak;J. D. Nash;A. Perlin

  • Ocean mixing by Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

    William D. Smyth;James N. Moum

  • Observational and numerical modeling methods for quantifying coastal ocean turbulence and mixing

    Hans Burchard;Peter D. Craig;Johannes R. Gemmrich;Hans van Haren

  • Air–Sea Interactions from Westerly Wind Bursts During the November 2011 MJO in the Indian Ocean

    James N. Moum;Simon P. de Szoeke;William D. Smyth;James B. Edson

  • Nonlocal fluxes and Stokes drift effects in the K-profile parameterization

    William D. Smyth;Eric D. Skyllingstad;Gregory B. Crawford;Hemantha Wijesekera

  • Resonant Wind-Driven Mixing in the Ocean Boundary Layer

    Eric D. Skyllingstad;W. D. Smyth;G. B. Crawford

  • Narrowband Oscillations in the Upper Equatorial Ocean. Part II: Properties of Shear Instabilities

    W. D. Smyth;J. N. Moum;J. D. Nash

  • Marginal instability and deep cycle turbulence in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean

    W. D. Smyth;J. N. Moum

  • Turbulence and Mixing in Holmboe Waves

    W. D. Smyth;K. B. Winters

  • Local ocean response to a multiphase westerly wind burst: 2. Thermal and freshwater responses

    William D. Smyth;D. Hebert;James N. Moum

  • Efficiency of turbulent mixing in the abyssal ocean circulation

    A. Mashayek;H. Salehipour;D. Bouffard;C. P. Caulfield

  • Local ocean response to a multiphase westerly wind burst: 1. Dynamic response

    William D. Smyth;D. Hebert;James N. Moum

  • Upper-Ocean Turbulence during a Westerly Wind Burst: A Comparison of Large-Eddy Simulation Results and Microstructure Measurements

    Eric D. Skyllingstad;W. D. Smyth;J. N. Moum;H. Wijesekera

  • The Transition between Kelvin-Helmholtz and Holmboe Instability: An Investigation of the Overreflection Hypothesis.

    W. D. Smyth;W. R. Peltier

  • Finite amplitude holmboe waves

    W. D. Smyth;G. P. Klaassen;W. R. Peltier

  • The pressure disturbance of a nonlinear internal wave train

    J. N. Moum;W. D. Smyth

Frequent Co-Authors

James N. Moum
James N. Moum Oregon State University
W. R. Peltier
W. R. Peltier University of Toronto
Sutanu Sarkar
Sutanu Sarkar University of California, San Diego
Jonathan D. Nash
Jonathan D. Nash Oregon State University
Armin Köhl
Armin Köhl Universität Hamburg
David M. Farmer
David M. Farmer University of Rhode Island
Hans Burchard
Hans Burchard Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Laurence Armi
Laurence Armi University of California, San Diego
Christopher W. Fairall
Christopher W. Fairall National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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