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Why a mid-depth stress-free boundary condition is incorrect for Ekman flows
Christian Puntini, Luigi Roberti
We show that the assumption of a stress-free boundary condition at a finite intermediate depth, namely, at the bottom of the Ekman layer, in the analysis of wind-driven ocean flows…
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On large-scale wind-drift ocean currents: An asymptotic approach in spherical coordinates
Christian Puntini, Luigi Roberti, Eduard Stefanescu
Starting from the Navier--Stokes equations in rotating spherical coordinates with depth-varying density and eddy viscosity, we derive an asymptotic model describing non-equatorial…