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William L. Peirson

WL

44

Publications

2.1K

Citations

25

H-Index

1996

Active since

Affiliations

UNSW Sydney(Current)

Ecosystem Sciences

Chalmers University of Technology

William L. Peirson is an author at UNSW Sydney specializing in engineering, civil engineering, and fluid mechanics.

Top concepts

EngineeringCivil EngineeringFluid DynamicsEarth ScienceWave PropagationWave HydrodynamicsAerodynamicsNonlinear Ocean WavesMeteorologyOceanography

Publications per year

1996–2022

44

Publications

44

Tangential stress beneath wind-driven air–water interfaces

Michael L. Banner, William L. Peirson · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1998 · 172 citations

Ocean Dynamics, Engineering, Fluid Mechanics +18

Wave breaking onset and strength for two-dimensional deep-water wave groups

Michael L. Banner, William L. Peirson · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 2007 · 140 citations

Engineering, Oceanography, Wave Motion +19

Investigation of the physical scaling of sea spray spume droplet production

C. W. Fairall, Michael L. Banner, William L. Peirson et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2009 · 118 citations

Meteorology, Earth Science, Engineering +14

Measurements of the time-varying free-surface profile across the swash zone obtained using an industrial LIDAR

Chris Blenkinsopp, M.A. Mole, Ian L. Turner et al. · Coastal Engineering · 2010 · 114 citations

Industrial Lidar, Engineering, Synthetic Aperture Radar +10

On a unified breaking onset threshold for gravity waves in deep and intermediate depth water

Xavier Barthélémy, Michael L. Banner, William L. Peirson et al. · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 2018 · 111 citations

Nonlinear Ocean Waves, Geophysics, Engineering +12

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