Upper-ocean Ekman current dynamics: a new perspective

DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.1059MaRDI QIDQ4960884zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

air/sea interactionsmixing and dispersiontransition to turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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