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Ken Melville
Professor of Oceanography
LJ, OAR, 350
534-0478



Website: http://airsea.ucsd.edu

Degrees:
B.Sc., B.E., M.Eng.Sc., University of Sydney, Australia
Ph.D., University of Southampton, England

Research Interest:
Air-sea interaction
Nonlinear surface and internal waves
Surface wave breaking
Acoustic and microwave remote sensing

Publications:
1998. Laboratory measurements of the generation and evolution of Langmuir circulations. Journal of Fluid Mechanics: 364:31-58.

1998. Nonlinear gravity-capillary waves with forcing and dissipation. Journal of Fluid Mechanics: 354:1-42.

1997. Sound-speed measurements in the surface-wave layer. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America: 102(5):2607-2625.

1996. The role of surface-wave breaking in air-sea interaction. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics: 28:279-321.

1995. Propagation and breaking of nonlinear Kelvin waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography: 25(11):2518-2531.




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