Upper-ocean Ekman current dynamics: a new perspective

DOI10.1017/jfm.2019.1059zbMath1460.76402OpenAlexW3004305244MaRDI QIDQ4960884

Victor I. Shrira, Rema B. Almelah

Publication date: 24 April 2020

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/7631/1/Shrira%20Almelah%20JFM2020.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

transition to turbulencemixing and dispersionair/sea interactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Transition to turbulence (76F06)

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