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Member Since 1989
Bill R. Young
Professor, University of California San Diego
Professional Experience
University of California San Diego
Professor
2018 - Present
University of California San Diego
Professor
2018 - 2018
Honors & Awards
James B. Macelwane Medal
Received December 1989
Union Fellow
Received January 1989
Publications
Direct Observations of Near‐Inertial Wave ζ‐Refraction in a Dipole Vortex

Generated at large horizontal scales by winds, near‐inertial waves (NIWs) are inefficient at radiating energy without a shift to smaller wave...

November 05, 2020
AGU Abstracts
Modulation of Stokes Drift by Internal Solitary Waves at the Free-surface
PHYSICAL PROCESSES DRIVING TRANSPORT AND DISPERSAL OF PARTICLES IN THE OCEAN II POSTER
physical oceanography: mesoscale and smaller | 21 february 2024
Akanksha Gupta, William R. Young, XUANTING HAO
Internal solitary waves (ISWs) affect surface gravity waves (SGWs) and modify their Stokes drift. The interaction between ISWs and SGWs generates surf...
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Imprint of Currents on Surface Waves: solutions in two regimes
FLUXES, SURFACE WAVES, AND PHYSICAL PROCESSES AT THE AIR-SEA INTERFACE VI ORAL
air-sea interactions | 20 february 2024
Han Wang, Bia Villas Boas, William R. Young, Jacqu...
Interactions between surface waves and currents are known to impact the statistics of significant wave height (hereafter "Hs"), with implications for ...
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Imprint of currents on surface waves: Insights from turbulent flows
FLUXES, SURFACE WAVES, AND PHYSICAL PROCESSES AT THE AIR-SEA INTERFACE V POSTER
air-sea interactions | 19 february 2024
Bia Villas Boas, Han Wang, William R. Young, Jacqu...
Recent observational and numerical work from the surface waves community shows that the spatial variability of significant wave height (Hs) is sensiti...
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