On surface drift currents in the ocean

DOI10.1017/S0022112079000112zbMath0395.76019MaRDI QIDQ4178659

Norden Huang

Publication date: 1979

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

zbMATH Keywords

ModelCurrentsCoriolis ForcesEkman Drift CurrentLangmuir CirculationNonlinear Equations of MotionOcean CirculationSurface DriftSurface Wind Stresses

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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