Abstract: The phenomenon of oceanic Ekman layer rectification refers to how the time-mean, Ekman layer velocity profile with depth differs as a consequence of variability in the surface wind in addition to the time-mean wind. This ...

Abstract: The K-profile parameterization scheme is used to investigate the stratified Ekman layer in a ?fair weather? regime of weak mean surface heating, persistently stable density stratification, diurnal solar cycle, and broadband ...

Abstract: he problem is posed and solved for the oceanic surface boundary layer in the presence of wind stress, stable density stratification, equilibrium wind-waves, and remotely generated swell-waves. The addition of swell causes ...

Abstract: arge-eddy simulations are made for the canonical Ekman layer problem of a steady wind above a uniformly rotating, constant-density ocean. The focus is on the influence of surface gravity waves: namely, the wave-averaged ...