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Kelvin J. Richards
Researcher at University of Hawaii
Publications - 111
Citations - 5081
Kelvin J. Richards is an academic researcher from University of Hawaii. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sea surface temperature & Mixed layer. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 106 publications receiving 4652 citations. Previous affiliations of Kelvin J. Richards include University of Southampton & University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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Turbulent shear flows over low hills
TL;DR: In this paper, a general analysis is developed for turbulent shear flows over two and three-dimensional hills with low-slopes which allows for a wide range of upwind velocity profiles, such as those caused by wakes of up-wind hills, roughness changes, or changes in stratification.
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Mechanisms for vertical nutrient transport within a North Atlantic mesoscale eddy
Adrian Martin,Kelvin J. Richards +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate vertical transport processes that may produce upwelling in an anticyclonic eddy in the NE Atlantic and find that the dominant mechanism is age-ostrophic circulation resulting from a perturbation of the circular flow of the eddy.
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The formation of ripples and dunes on an erodible bed
TL;DR: In this paper, a two-dimensional stability analysis of flow of low Froude number over an erodible bed is presented, and the results are strongly dependent on the two parameters z0, the roughness length of the bed, and β, the effect of the local bed slope on the bed load transport.
Observational evidence of alternating zonal jets in the world ocean
TL;DR: In this paper, the surface signature of zonal jets was extracted from maps of satellite altimetry and then used to evaluate properties of the jets, and the OFES output was used to justify the relevance of the extracted signal to deep ZJs.
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Air flow over a two-dimensional hill: studies of velocity speed-up, roughness effects and turbulence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the shear stresses are only important in an inner region close to the hill surface, so that, as suggested by Jackson and Hunt (1975), the perturbation to the mean flow outside this region is essentially inviscid.