Stokes transport in layers in the water column based on long-term wind statistics

• Published in: Oceanologia
• Main Authors: Myrhaug, Dag, Wang, Hong, Holmedal, Lars Erik
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2018
• Subjects: North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2557759; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2017.12.004

This paper addresses the Stokes transport velocity for deep water random waves in given layers in the water column based on wind statistics, which can be estimated by the simple analytical tool provided here. Results are exemplified by using the Phillips and Pierson-Moskowitz model wave spectra together with long-term wind statistics from one location in the northern North Sea and from four locations in the North Atlantic. The results are relevant for e.g. assessing the drift of marine litter in the ocean based on, for example, global wind statistics. publishedVersion © 2018 Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Production and hosting by Elsevier Sp. z o.o. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).