Analytical atmospheric Ekman-type solutions with height-dependent eddy viscosities

DOI10.1007/S00021-020-00543-1zbMath1458.76119OpenAlexW3119603607MaRDI QIDQ1995029

Delia Ionescu-Kruse

Publication date: 18 February 2021

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00021-020-00543-1

zbMATH Keywords

complex variable methodexplicit solutiongeostrophic wind velocityrational power function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Complex variables methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M40) Geophysical flows (76U60)

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Cites Work

• A Sturm-Liouville problem arising in the atmospheric boundary-layer dynamics
• Frictional effects in wind-driven ocean currents

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