WILLIAM DAVID SMYTH

College of Oceanographic and Atmospheric Sciences
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon, USA 97331
Email: smyth@coas.oregonstate.edu

Education:

Ph.D. Physics University of Toronto 1990
M.Sc. Physics University of Toronto 1986
B.Sc. (1st Class Honors) Physics University of Alberta 1984

Positions:

Associate Professor, Oregon State University 2003-
Associate Professor (Sr. Res.), Oregon State University 1998-2003
Assistant Professor (Sr. Res.), Oregon State University 1992-1998
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto 1991-1992
Postdoctoral Fellow, York University 1990-1991

Courses Taught:

Geophysical Waves (OCE681), COAS, Oregon State U., 2006.
Stability of Geophysical Flows (OCE680), COAS, Oregon State U., 2004.
Advanced Descriptive Oceanography (OCE673), COAS, Oregon State U., 2002, 2004.
Dynamic Meteorology (PHY5110), Dep't of Physics, U. of Toronto,  1991-1992.

Honors:

Pattullo Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2004.

Publications:

Inoue, R. and W.D. Smyth, 2007: "Efficiency of shear-driven mixing forced by internal waves", J. Phys. Oceanogr. (submitted). [pdf]

Kimura, S. and W.D. Smyth, 2007: "Direct numerical simulation of salt sheets and turbulence in a double-diffusive shear layer", Geophys. Res. Lett. (in press). [pdf]

Burchard, H., P.D. Craig, J.R. Gemmrich, H. von Haren, P.P. Matheiu, H.E. Marcus Meier, W.A.M. Nimmo Smith, H. Prandke, T.P. Rippeth, E.D. Skyllingstad, W.D. Smyth , D.J.S. Welsh and H.W. Wijesekera, 2007 "Observational and numerical modeling methods for quantifying coastal ocean turbulence and mixing'', Prog. Oceanogr. (in press). [pdf]

Smyth, W.D., 2007: "Instabilities of a baroclinic, double diffusive frontal zone", J. Phys. Oceanogr. (submitted).[pdf]

Mueller, R.D., W.D. Smyth and B. Ruddick, 2006: "Shear and convective turbulence in a model of thermohaline intrusions", J. Phys. Oceanogr. (submitted).[pdf]

Moum, J.N., J.M. Klymak. J.D. Nash, A. Perlin and W.D. Smyth, 2006: "Energy transport in nonlinear internal waves", J. Phys. Oceanogr. (submitted).[pdf]

Carpenter, J.R., G.A. Lawrence and W.D. Smyth, 2006: "Evolution and mixing of asymmetric Holmboe instabilities", J. Fluid Mech. (in press). [pdf]

Moum, J.N., D.M. Farmer, E.L. Schroyer, W.D. Smyth, L. Armi, 2006: "Dissipative losses in nonlinear internal waves propagating across the continental shelf", J. Phys. Oceanogr. (in press).

Smyth, W.D. and S. Kimura, 2006: "Instability and diapycnal momentum transport in a double diffusive, stratified shear layer", J. Phys. Oceanogr. (in press). [pdf]

Smyth, W.D., J.R. Carpenter and G.A. Lawrence, 2006: "Mixing in symmetric Holmboe waves", J. Phys. Oceanogr. (in press).[pdf]

Smyth, W.D., 2006: "Secondary circulations in Holmboe waves", Phys. Fluids, 18, 064104. [pdf]

Moum, J.N. and W.D. Smyth, 2006: "The pressure disturbance of a nonlinear internal wave train", J. Fluid Mech., 558, 153-177. [pdf]

Smyth, W.D., J.D Nash and J.N. Moum, 2005: "Differential diffusion in breaking Kelvin-Helmholtz billows", J. Phys. Oceanogr. 35 (6), 1004-1022. [pdf]

Smyth, W.D., R.A. Hart and P.J. Reimer, 2005: "Pleistocene forests preserved in Oregon coast sediments", EOS, Transactions. 86 (1) 2-3. [pdf]

Smyth, W.D., 2004: "Kelvin-Helmholtz billow evolution from a localized source", Q. J. R. Met. Soc. 130, 2753-2766. [pdf]

Smyth, W.D., 2003: "Secondary Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in weakly stratified, sheared flow", J. Fluid Mech. 497, 67-98. [pdf]

Moum, J.N., D.M. Farmer, W.D. Smyth, L. Armi and S. Vagle, 2003: "Structure and generation of turbulence at interfaces strained by solitary waves propagating shoreward over the continental shelf", J. Phys. Oceanogr. 33 (10) 2093-2112. [pdf]

Smyth, W.D. and K.B. Winters, 2003: "Turbulence and mixing in Holmboe waves", J. Phys. Oceanogr. 33(4), 694-711. [pdf]

Smyth, W.D. and J.N. Moum, 2002: "Shear instability and gravity wave saturation in an asymmetrically stratified jet", Dyn. Atm. Oceans, 35 (3) 265-294. [pdf]

Smyth, W.D., E.D. Skyllingstad, G.B. Crawford, and H. Wijesekera, 2002: "Nonlocal fluxes and Stokes drift effects in the K-profile parameterization", Ocean Dynamics, 52 (3), 104-115. [pdf]

Smyth, W.D., J.N. Moum and D.R. Caldwell, 2001: "The efficiency of mixing in turbulent patches: inferences from direct simulations and microstructure observations.", J. Phys. Oceanogr. 31, 1969-1992. [pdf]

Smyth, W.D. and J.N. Moum, 2001: "3D Turbulence", Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, Academic Press. [pdf]

Moum, J.N. and W.D. Smyth, 2001: "Upper Ocean Mixing", Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, Academic Press. [pdf]

Skyllingstad, E.D., W.D. Smyth and G.B. Crawford, 2000: "Resonant wind-driven mixing in the ocean boundary layer", J. Phys. Oceanogr. 30, 1866-1890.

Smyth, W.D. and J.N. Moum, 2000: "Anisotropy of turbulence in stably stratified mixing layers.", Phys. Fluids, 12, 1343-1362. [pdf]

Smyth, W.D. and J.N. Moum, 2000: "Length scales of turbulence in stably stratified mixing layers.", Phys. Fluids 12, 1327-1342. [pdf]

Smyth, W.D., 1999: "Dissipation range geometry and scalar mixing in sheared, stratified turbulence", J. Fluid Mech., 401, 209-242. [summary]

Skyllingstad, E.D., W.D. Smyth, J.N. Moum and H. Wijesekera, 1999: "Turbulent dissipation during a Westerly wind burst: A comparison of large-eddy simulation results and microstructure measurements", J. Phys. Oceanogr., 29 5-29. [summary]

Smyth, W.D. and J.C. McWilliams, 1998: "Instability of an axisymmetric vortex in a stably stratified, rotating environment", Theor. Comp. Fluid Dyn., 11 305-322. [summary]

Sun, C., W.D. Smyth and J.N. Moum, 1998, "Dynamic instability of stratified shear flow in the upper equatorial Pacific", J. Geophys. Res. 103 10323-10337.

Smyth, W.D., P.O. Zavialov and J.N. Moum, 1997: "Decay of turbulence in the upper ocean following sudden isolation from surface forcing", J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27 164-176.

Smyth, W.D., D. Hebert and J.N. Moum 1996: "Local ocean response to a multiphase westerly windburst. Part 1: the dynamic response". J. Geophys. Res., 101 (C10) 22495-22512.

Smyth, W.D., D. Hebert and J.N. Moum 1996: "Local ocean response to a multiphase westerly windburst. Part 2: thermal and freshwater responses". J. Geophys. Res., 101 (C10) 22513-22533.

Skyllingstad, E.D., T. Paluskiewicz, D.W. Denbo and W.D. Smyth, 1996: "Nonlinear vertical mixing processes in the ocean: modeling and parameterization". Physica D 98, 574-593.

Smyth, W.D. and W. R. Peltier 1994: "Three-dimensionalization of barotropic vortices on the f-plane", J. Fluid Mech., 265, 25-64.

Smyth, W.D. and W. R. Peltier 1993: "Two-dimensional turbulence in homogeneous and stratified shear layers", Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dynamics, 69, 1-32.

Smyth, W.D. 1992: "Spectral transfers in two-dimensional anisotropic flow", Phys. Fluids A, 4, 340-349.

Smyth, W.D. and W. R. Peltier 1991: "Instability and transition in finite amplitude Kelvin-Helmholtz and Holmboe waves", J. Fluid Mech., 228, 387-415.

Smyth, W.D., G. P. Klaassen and W. R. Peltier 1990: "The nonlinear evolution of Holmboe waves", in Stratified Flows, E. J. List and G. H. Jurka, eds., pp. 45-54. American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, 1111 pp.

Smyth, W.D. and W. R. Peltier 1990: "Three - dimensional primary instabilities of stratified, dissipative parallel flow", Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dynamics, 52, 249-261.

Smyth, W.D. and W. R. Peltier 1989: "The transition between Kelvin-Helmholtz and Holmboe instability: An investigation of the overreflection hypothesis", J. Atmos. Sci., 47, 3698-3720.

Smyth, W.D., G. P. Klaassen, and W. R. Peltier 1988: "Finite amplitude Holmboe waves", Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dynamics, 43, 181-222.