| Tidal conversion by subcritical topography NJ Balmforth, GR Ierley, WR Young Journal of Physical Oceanography 32 (10), 2900-2914, 2002 | 205 | 2002 |
| Spurt phenomena of the Johnson-Segalman fluid and related models RW Kolkka, DS Malkus, MG Hansen, GR Ierley Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 29, 303-335, 1988 | 155 | 1988 |
| Symmetry-breaking multiple equilibria in quasigeostrophic, wind-driven flows P Cessi, GR Ierley Journal of physical oceanography 25 (6), 1196-1205, 1995 | 133 | 1995 |
| A model of the inertial recirculation driven by potential vorticity anomalies P Cessi, G Ierley, W Young Journal of physical oceanography 17 (10), 1640-1652, 1987 | 133 | 1987 |
| Interacting localized structures with Galilean invariance C Elphick, GR Ierley, O Regev, EA Spiegel Physical Review A 44 (2), 1110, 1991 | 100 | 1991 |
| Blow-up of unsteady two-dimensional Euler and Navier-Stokes solutions having stagnation-point form S Childress, GR Ierley, EA Spiegel, WR Young Journal of Fluid Mechanics 203, 1-22, 1989 | 100 | 1989 |
| A generalized power-law detection algorithm for humpback whale vocalizations TA Helble, GR Ierley, GL D’Spain, MA Roch, JA Hildebrand The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 131 (4), 2682-2699, 2012 | 90 | 2012 |
| Multiple solutions and advection-dominated flows in the wind-driven circulation. Part I: Slip GR Ierley, VA Sheremet | 81 | 1995 |
| Eigenanalysis of the two-dimensional wind-driven ocean circulation problem VA Sheremet, GR Ierley, VM Kamenkovich | 80 | 1997 |
| On the convected linear stability of a viscoelastic Oldroyd B fluid heated from below RW Kolkka, GR Ierley Journal of non-Newtonian fluid mechanics 25 (2), 209-237, 1987 | 60 | 1987 |
| A modal α2-dynamo in the limit of asymptotically small viscosity R Hollerbach, GR Ierley Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 56 (1-4), 133-158, 1991 | 58 | 1991 |
| Viscous instabilities in the western boundary layer GR Ierley, WR Young Journal of physical oceanography 21 (9), 1323-1332, 1991 | 57 | 1991 |
| Chaotic pulse trains NJ Balmforth, GR Ierley, EA Spiegel SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 54 (5), 1291-1334, 1994 | 55 | 1994 |
| On the onset of inertial recirculation in barotropic general circulation models GR Ierley Journal of physical oceanography 17 (12), 2366-2374, 1987 | 53 | 1987 |
| Spectral methods in time for a class of parabolic partial differential equations G Ierley, B Spencer, R Worthing Journal of Computational Physics 102 (1), 88-97, 1992 | 51 | 1992 |
| Infinite-Prandtl-number convection. Part 2. A singular limit of upper bound theory GR Ierley, RR Kerswell, SC Plasting Journal of Fluid Mechanics 560, 159-227, 2006 | 46 | 2006 |
| Automated acoustic localization and call association for vocalizing humpback whales on the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility TA Helble, GR Ierley, GL D'Spain, SW Martin The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 137 (1), 11-21, 2015 | 43 | 2015 |
| Analytic and numerical solutions of a nonlinear boundary‐layer problem GR Ierley, OG Ruehr Studies in Applied Mathematics 75 (1), 1-36, 1986 | 43 | 1986 |
| Boundary layers in the general ocean circulation GR Ierley Annual review of fluid mechanics 22 (1), 111-140, 1990 | 40 | 1990 |
| Can the western boundary layer affect the potential vorticity distribution in the Sverdrup interior of a wind gyre? GR Ierley, WR Young Journal of physical oceanography 13 (10), 1753-1763, 1983 | 38 | 1983 |
William R. YoungProfessor of OceanographyVerified email at ucsd.edu
