Addendum to "Stokes transport in layers in the water column based on long-term wind statistics": assessment using long-term wave statistics

• Published in: Oceanologia
• Main Authors: Myrhaug, Dag, Wang, Hong, Holmedal, Lars Erik
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2636064; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2019.03.003

This article addresses the Stokes drift in layers in the water column for deep water random waves based on wave statistics in terms of the sea state wave parameters significant wave height and mean zero-crossing wave period. This is exemplified by using long-term wave statistics from the North Atlantic, and is supplementary to Myrhaug et al. (2018) presenting similar results based on long-term wind statistics from the same ocean area. Overall, it appears that the results based on long-term wave statistics and long-term wind statistics are consistent. The simple analytical tool provided here is useful for estimating the wave-induced drift in layers in the water column relevant for the assessment of the transport of, for example, marine litter in the ocean based on, for example, global wave statistics. publishedVersion © 2019 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/).