Abstract: The structure of the stratified turbulent upper mixed layer of the ocean has been numerically investigated by using the turbulence closure model of Gibson and Launder, under the action of an impulsive wind stress τ0 and ...

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Abstract: A linear, two-dimensional, continuously stratified, viscous model has been developed to study the inertial oscillations generated by a propagating wind field. The model, an extension of that of Kundu and Thomson, includes ...

Abstract: The excitation of coastal inertial oscillations by a rapidly varying wind is investigated. It is shown that the mean-square response to a completely random forcing is ??2 ? ? ?δ2dt, where ?δ is the response to impulsive ...

Abstract: Nearly two months of current meter data taken during the summer of 1973 at eleven depths at a station off the coast of Oregon in 100 m of water have been analyzed. The spectra show an 8% increase in the frequency of the ...

Abstract: It has been shown that the phase angle of the complex correlation coefficient is a good measure of the average relative angular displacement (veering) between a pair of two-dimensional vector series. The correlation ...

Abstract: Velocity measurements from the continental shelf off Oregon taken during the Coastal Upwelling Experiment CUE-2 in the summer of 1973 are utilized to investigate momentum, vorticity and mass balance relationships for ...

Abstract: The circulation forced by an inflow of water through an eastern ocean boundary is investigated using two linear, viscid, and continuously stratified models. One of the models has a flat bottom, and solutions are obtained ...

Abstract: A solution for a concentrated line front translating at speed U is given. It is shown that the frequency is near-inertial if U?c1, where c1 is the long internal wave speed of the first baroclinic mode. Each more has a ...

Abstract: An analysis is presented of the low-frequency fluctuations [?<0.6 cycle per day (cpd)] of the currents near the Oregon coast, based on the 1972 and 1973 measurements from moored current meters in CUE-1 and CUE-2. Let u and ...