Accession Number:
AD0621369
Title:
NOTE ON THE EFFECT OF NON-LINEAR ACCELERATIONS IN THE OCEANIC EKMAN LAYER.
Descriptive Note:
Technical rept.,
Corporate Author:
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MASS
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1965-09-01
Pagination or Media Count:
11.0
Abstract:
It is shown theoretically that the concept of an Ekman layer in the wind-driven oceanic circulation is no longer valid when the layer gets thin, and non-linear acceleration terms must be considered. The corrections may be noticeable in local regions of the ocean with strong wind gradient. Author