Scripps Institution of
Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California 92093
(858) 534-1380 (Office);
wryoung@ucsd.edu
EDUCATION
Undergraduate Degree, 1977, B.Sc. (Theoretical Physics),
M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics),
Australian
National University 1981, Ph.D. (Physical
Oceanography),
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution,
MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
July 1991 to present: Professor of Physical Oceanography,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California, San Diego
January 1988 to June 1991: Associate Professor of Physical
Oceanography,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of
California, San Diego
AWARDS:
1976 University Medal in Theoretical Physics from the Australian
National University.
1982 Carl-Gustav Rossby Award,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
1989 McElwane Medal
from the American Geophysical Union.
1989 Fellow of the
American Geophysical Union.
1998 Houghton Lecturer,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2006 G.K. Batchelor
Lecturer, University of Cambridge.
2009 Fellow of the
American Meteorological Society.
2012 Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.
1. Snyder, A.W., and W.R. Young, 1978. Modes of optical waveguides. J. Opt. Soc. Am., 68, 297-309.
8. Young, W.R., 1983. Topographic rectification of tidal currents. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 13, 716-721.
11. Young, W.R., 1984. The role of western boundary layers in gyre scale ocean mixing. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 14, 478-483.
12. Dewar, W.K., P.B. Rhines, and W.R. Young, 1984. The nonlinear spin-up of a stratified ocean. Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn., 30, 169-197.
13. Young, W.R., 1985. Some
interactions between small numbers of baroclinic vortices. Geophys.
Astrophys. Fluid Dyn., 33, 35-61.
14. Pierce, B.P., and W.R. Young, 1986. Lycaenid butterflies and
ants: two-species stable equilibria in mutualistic, commensal and
parastic interactions. Am Naturalist, 128, 216-227.
16. Young, W.R., 1986. Elliptical
vortices in shallow water. J. Fluid Mech., 171, 101-119.
19. Abarbanel, H.D.I., and W.R. Young, 1987. The General Circulation
of the Ocean. Springer-Verlag, New York, 291 pp.
20. Young, W.R., 1987. Baroclinic Circulation Theories. In: The
General Circulation of the Oceans., ed. by H.D.I. Abarbanel and
W. R. Young, Springer-Verlag.
22. Cessi, P., G.R. Ierley, and W.R. Young, 1987. A model of the
inertial recirculation driven by potential vorticity anomalies. J.
Phys. Oceanogr., 17, 1640-1652.
23. Ierley, G.R., and W.R. Young, 1988. Inertial recirculation in a
beta-plane corner. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 18, 683-689.
26. Thompson, L., and W.R. Young, 1989. An upper bound on the size of
sub-mesoscale coherent vortices. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 19, 233-237.
27. Childress, S., G.R. Ierley, E.A. Spiegel and W.R. Young, 1989.
Blow-up of unsteady two-dimensional Euler and Navier-Stokes
solutions having stagnation point form. J. Fluid Mech., 203, 1-22.
28. Vallis, G.K., G.F., Carnevale, and W.R. Young, 1989. Extremal
energy properties and construction of stable solutions of the
Euler equations. J. Fluid Mech., 207, 133-152.
31. Cessi, P., E.A. Spiegel, and W.R. Young, 1990. Small scale
excitation in large systems. In: Nonlinear Evolution of
Spatio-Temporal Structures in Dissipative Continuous Systems, ed.
by F.H. Busse and L. Kramer. Plenum Press, New York, pp. 231-236.
32. Young, W.R., and S. Jones,
1991. Shear dispersion. Phys Fluid, A. 3, 1087-1101.
35. Ierley, G.R., and W.R. Young, 1991. Viscous instabilities in
the western boundary layer. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 21, 1323-1332.
38. Cessi, P. and W.R. Young,
1992. Fixed-flux convection in a tilted slot. J. Fluid Mech. , 237,
57-71.
41. Balmforth, N.J., S.P. Meacham, E.A. Spiegel and W.R. Young, 1992.
Global equilibria of turbulent accretion disks. Annals New York
Acad. Sci., 675, 53-64.
44. Young, W.R., 1994. The subinertial
mixed layer approximation. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 24, 1812-1826.
47. McNamara, S. and W.R. Young,
1994. Inelastic collapse in two dimensions. Phys. Rev. E. 50, R28.
49. Chen, L. and W.R. Young, 1995.
Density compensated thermohaline gradients and diapycnal fluxes in the
mixed layer. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25, 3064-3075.
50. Young, W.R., 1995. Decaying two-dimensional turbulence. Turbulence,
A Tentative Dictionary, 1-4, Eds. P. Tabeling and O. Cardoso, Plenum
Press.
51. McNamara S., and W.R. Young, 1996. Dynamics of a freely evolving,
two-dimensional granular medium. Phys. Rev. E., 53, 5089-5100.
65. Manfroi, A.J. and W.R. Young,
2002. Stability of beta-plane Kolmogorov flow. Physica D 162, 208-232.
93. K. Srinivasan
and W.R.Young 2012. Zonostrophic Instability. J. Atmos. Sci., vol 69,
1633-1656.
98. Gallet B. and W.R. Young 2014.
Refraction of swell by ocean currents. J. Mar. Res. vol 72, 105-126.
120. Siegelman, L.,
Klein, P., Ingersoll, A. P., Ewald, S. P., Young, W. R., Bracco, A., ...
& Sindoni, G. (2022). Moist convection drives an upscale energy transfer
at Jovian high latitudes. Nature Physics, 1-5.
121. Vanneste, and
Young, W.R. (2022). Stokes drift and its discontents. Phil. Trans. Roy.
Soc. A 380:20210032.
122. Siegelman, L.,
Young, W. R., and Ingersoll, A. P. (2022). Polar vortex crystals:
Emergence and structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, 119(17), e2120486119.
122S. Siegelman, L. and Young, W.
R., and Ingersoll, A. P. (2022). Supplementary Information for Polar
vortex crystals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
119(17), e2120486119.
123. Andrew P. Ingersoll, Shawn P. Ewald,
Federico Tosi, Alberto Adriani, Alessandro Mura, Davide Grassi,
Christina Plainak, Giuseppe Sindoni, Cheng Li, Lia Siegelman,
Patrice Klein and William R. Young (2022). Vorticity and divergence at scales
down to 200 km within and around the polar cyclones of Jupiter,
Nature Astronomy, 6, 1280-1286.
124. Coralie Picoche, William R Young,
Frederic Barraquand (2022). [Re] Reproductive pair correlations and the clustering
of organisms, The ReScience Journal, hal-03871401. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7244522
125. Siegelman, L. and Young, W.
R. (2023). Two-dimensional turbulence above topography: Vortices and
potential vorticity homogenization, Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences, 120(44), e2308018120.
126. Wang, H., Villas Boas,
A.B., Young, W.R., and J Vanneste (2023). Scattering of swell by currents,
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 975, doi:10.1017/jfm.2023.686.
127. Leif N. Thomas, Samuel M.
Kelly, Thilo Klenz, William R. Young, Luc Rainville, Harper Simmons,
Verena Hormann, and Ian Stokes (2024). Why near-inertial waves are less
affected by vorticity in the Northeast Pacific than in the North
Atlantic, Oceanography (Early Online Release).
128. Picoche, C., Young, W.R.
and F. Barraquand (2024). Local intraspecific aggregation in phytoplankton model
communities: spatial scales of occurrence and implications for coexistence,
Journal of Mathematical Biology.
Meiss, J., and W.R., Young, 1980. A forced Burgers equation.
Proceedings of the 1980 Summer Study Program in Geophysical Fluid
Dynamics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. WHOI Technical
Report, 80-53.
Young, W.R., 1981. The vertical structure of the general circulation.
Ph.D. thesis submitted to Woods Hole - Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Joint Program in Oceanography.
Young, W.R. and M. Ben Jelloul, 1995. Intermittent mixing: the Zappa
model. Proceedings of the 1995 Summer Study Program in Geophysical Fluid
Dynamics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. WHOI Technical
Report.
W.R. Young, 1999. Lectures on
Stirring and Mixing delivered at the 1999 WHOI Summer Program in
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, and also at the 2000 FDEPS workshop in Tokyo. THE GREY LITERATURE