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MELVILLE, W.

Professor of Oceanography

Director, Joint Institute for Marine Observations

Degrees:

• B.S., University of Sydney (B. Sc.)
• B.S., University of Sydney (B. E.)
• M.S., University of Sydney (M. Eng. Sc.)
• Ph.D., University of Southampton, England

Research Interests:

• Fluid Mechanics
• Air-sea interaction
• Nonlinear surface and internal waves
• Upper ocean turbulence and mixing
• Optical, acoustic and microwave remote sensing

Courses Recently Taught:

• SIO 202A: Fundamentals of Wave Physics
• SIO 219: Spec Topics/Physical Oceanogra
• SIO202A: Fundamentals of Wave Physics
• SIO211A: Ocean Waves I

Honors and Awards:

• Commonwealth Scholar, 1964-1967 (Australia)
• Commonwealth Postgraduate Scholar, 1968-69 (Australia)
• British Travel Conference, Traveling Fellowship, 1969-1973
• Hawker Siddeley Fellow, 1969-1973
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1986-1987
• Fellow Acoustical Society of America, 1999
• Fellow American Physical Society, 2005
• Bader Lecturer, University of Miami, 2006

Mentoring:

• Romero, Leonel (Graduate; 2002-2008)
• Drazen, David (Graduate; 1999-2006)
• Gray, Ronan (Masters; 1999-2001)
• Lada, Genevieve (Masters; 1998-2002)
• Wang, Xiaobin (Masters; 1996-1999)
• Veron, Fabrice (Graduate; 1995-2000)
• White, Christopher (Masters; 1994-1996)
• Terrill, Eric (Graduate; 1993-1998)
• Federov, Alexey (Graduate; 1992-1997)

Veron, F., Melville, W.K. & Lenain, L., Measurement of Ocean Surface Turbulence and Wave-Turbulence Interactions, J. Phys. Oceanog., In Press (2008).

Drazen, D.A. & Melville, W.K., Turbulence and mixing in unsteady breaking waves, J. Fluid Mech., In Press (2008)

Melville, W.K., Romero, L. & Kleiss, J., Observations of surface waves and wave breaking: A tribute to Nick Newman. ASME 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, June 15-20, 2008, Estofil, Portugal. OMAE2008-57490, 7pp, (2008)

Drazen, D.A. & Melville, W.K., Inertial scaling of dissipation in unsteady breaking waves. J. Fluid Mech., 611, 307-332 (2008)

Veron, F., Melville, W.K. & Lenain, L., Wave-coherent air-sea heat flux. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 38, 788-802 (2008)

Veron, F., Melville, W.K. & Lenain, L., Infrared techniques for measuring ocean surface processes. J. Atmos. Oceanic Techn., 25, 307-326, (2008)

Sullivan, P.P., Mcwilliams, J.C. & Melville, W.K.,Surface gravity wave effects in the oceanic boundary layer: large-eddy simulation with vortex force and stochastic breakers. J. Fluid Mech, 593, 405-452, (2007)

Helfrich, K.R. & Melville, W.K., Long nonlinear internal waves Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech., 38, 395-425 (2006)

Young IR, Banner ML, Donelan MA, Babanin, AV, Melville, WK, Veron, F. & McCormick, C., An integrated system for study of wind-wave sources terms in finite depth water. J. Atmos. Oceanic Techn., 22 , 814-831 (2005)

Melville, W.K., Romero, L. & Kleiss, J.,Extreme wave events in the Gulf of Tehuantepec. In Rogue Waves , `Aha Huliko`a Hawaiian Winter Workshop, (Peter Muller, Ed.), pp23- 28, University of Hawaii, (2005)

Melville, W.K., F.C. Felizardo and P. Matusov, Wave slope and wave age effects in measurements of EM bias. J. Geophys. Res., 109, C7, C07018 (2004), 15 pp.

Piskozub1, J., Stramski, D., Terrill,E. & Melville, W.K., Influence of forward and multiple light scatter on the measurement of beam attenuation in highly scattering marine environments. Appl. Optics, 43, 4723-4731 (2004).

Sullivan, P.P., McWilliams, J.C. & Melville, W.K., The oceanic boundary layer driven by wave breaking with stochastic ariability. I: Direct numerical simulations. J. Fluid Mech., 507,143-174 (2004)

Kumar, R., D. Stammer, W.K. Melville and P. Janssen,, EM bias estimates based on TOPEX, buoy and WAM data. J. Geophys. Res., 108(C11): 3351 (2003)

Melville, W.K. and P. Matusov, Distribution of breaking waves at the ocean surface. Nature, 417, 58-63 (2002). (Cover article, May 2.)

Melville, W.K. F. Veron and C. White., The velocity field under breaking waves: Coherent structures and turbulence. J. Fluid Mechanics, 454: 203-233 (2002).

Veron, F. and W.K. Melville, Experiments on the stability and transition of wind-driven water surfaces. J. Fluid Mechanics, 446: 25-65 (2001).

Terrill, E.J., W.K. Melville and D. Stramski, Bubble entrainment by breaking waves and their influence on optical scattering in the upper ocean. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 106(C8): 16815-16823 (2001).

Veron, F. and W.K. Melville, Laboratory measurements of the generation of Langmuir circulations and surface waves. In: Fluid Mechanics and the Environment: Dynamical Approaches, J. Lumley, ed., pp. 401-412, Springer (2001).

Committee for Naval Hydromechanics Science and Technology: Reynolds, W., R. Arndt, J. Brooks, D. Cieslowski, D. Dix, T. Huang, F. Hussain, A. Jameson, R. Leopold, M. MacKinnon, W.K. Melville, J. Newman, J. Paulling, M. Sevik, and R. Whitehead. An Assessment of Naval Hydromechanics Science and Technology. Naval Studies Board, National Res. Council, National Acad. Sci. Press, 62 pp. (2000).

Fedorov, A.V. and W.K. Melville, Kelvin fronts on the equatorial thermocline. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 30: 1692-1705 (2000).

Terrill, E.J. and W.K. Melville, A broadband acoustic technique for measuring bubble size distriburtions: Laboratory and shallow water measurements. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech. 17: 220-239 (2000).

Veron, F. and W.K. Melville, Laboratory studies of mixing and Langmuir circulations. In: Proc. Symp. on the Wind-Driven Air-Sea Interface, Univ. of New S. Wales, Sydney, M.L. Banner, ed., pp. 265-272, ADFA, Canberra (1999).

Terrill, E.J. and W.K. Melville, Field measurements of bubble size distributions in the upper mixed layer. In: Proc. Symp. on the Wind-Driven Air-Sea Interface, Univ. of New S. Wales, Sydney, M.L. Banner, ed., pp. 247-256, ADFA, Canberra (1999).

Melville, W.K., C. White, F. Veron, and E. Luft, Laboratory measurements of turbulence under breaking waves. In: Proc. Symp. on the Wind-Driven Air-Sea Interface, Univ. of New S. Wales, Sydney, M.L. Banner, ed., pp. 211-218, ADFA, Canberra (1999)

Rozenberg, A., P. Matusov and W.K. Melville, Laboratory measurements of gravity-capillary waves in the presence of turbulence. In: Proc. Symp. on theWind-Driven Air-Sea Interface, Univ. of New S. Wales, Sydney, M.L. Banner, ed., pp. 89-90, ADFA, Canberra (1999).

Rozenberg, A. D., M.J. Ritter, W.K. Melville, C.C. Gottschall and A.V. Smirnov, Free and bound capillary waves as microwave scatterers: Laboratory studies IEEE Trans. Geosci. and Rem. Sensing 37: 1052-1065 (1999).

Veron, F. and W.K. Melville, Pulse-to-pulse coherent Doppler measurements of waves and turbulence. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech. 16: 1580-1597 (1999).

Rogers, D., C. Dorman, K. Edwards, I. Brooks, W.K. Melville, S. Burk, W. Thompson, T. Holt, L. Ström, M. Tjernström, B. Grisogono, J. Bane, W. Nuss, B. Morley and A. Schanot, Highlights of coastal waves 1996. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 79: 1307-1326 (1998).

Fedorov, A.V., W.K. Melville and A.D. Rozenberg, An experimental and numerical study of parasitic capillary waves. Phys. Fluids 10: 1315-1323 (1998).

Melville, W.K., R. Shear and F. Veron, Laboratory measurements of the generation and evolution of Langmuir circulations. J. Fluid Mech. 364: 31-58 (1998).

Fedorov, A.V. and W.K.Melville, Nonlinear gravity-capillary waves with forcing and dissipation. J. Fluid Mech. 354: 1-42 (1998).