Abstract: The neutral Ekman boundary layer is known to be dynamically unstable to infinitesimal perturbations under typical geophysical conditions. This paper discusses this instability to two-dimensional, simple-harmonic perturbations, ...

Abstract: The equations of motion for a neutrally buoyant fluid are solved to produce an equilibrium flow consisting of a modified Ekman spiral mean flow plus a helical secondary flow. By considering the secondary flow to be a finite ...

Abstract: A method of determining surface pressures in oceanic storm systems using ERS-1 scatterometer data is employed to determine the lowest pressures in 25 storms. This method uses the surface winds as a lower boundary condition ...

Abstract: An operational planetary boundary layer model (Brown, 1974,1978, 1981) for determining surface winds and stress from free-stream flow has been modified for the marine layer by including surface roughness feedback, variable ...

Abstract: A generalized relationship is derived which relates an arbitrary horizontal wind field and the Doppler velocity field that results from its observation with a single horizontally directed radar. The relationship shows ...