A combined stokes drift profile under swell and wind sea

Abstract A combined directional Stokes drift profile for swell and wind sea is presented. The profile can be used to calculate the shear under crossing seas and as such is relevant for Langmuir turbulence and Stokes-Coriolis forcing, but also for material advection. The swell is represented as eithe...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of Physical Oceanography
Main Authors: Breivik, Øyvind, Christensen, Kai Håkon
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10852/81101
http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-84193
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0087.1