TY - GEN
AU - Ø. Breivik
AU - Peter Janssen
AU - Jean-Raymond Bidlot
AB - A new approximation to the Stokes drift velocity profile is proposed as an alternative to themonochromatic profile. Comparisons with parametric spectra and full two-dimensional wave spectra from the ERA-Interim reanalysis in the North Atlantic show significant improvement over the monochromatic profile even for complex sea states. The profile gives both a closer match and a more correct shear compared to the monochromatic profile. This has implications for ocean circulation since the Coriolis-Stokes force depends on the magnitude and direction of the Stokes drift profile and Langmuir turbulence depends sensitively on the shear of the profile. The proposed profile comes at no added numerical cost and relies on the same two parameters, viz the Stokes transport and the surface Stokes drift velocity.
BT - ECMWF Technical Memoranda
DA - 12/2013
DO - 10.21957/a08ht7790
LA - eng
M1 - 716
N2 - A new approximation to the Stokes drift velocity profile is proposed as an alternative to themonochromatic profile. Comparisons with parametric spectra and full two-dimensional wave spectra from the ERA-Interim reanalysis in the North Atlantic show significant improvement over the monochromatic profile even for complex sea states. The profile gives both a closer match and a more correct shear compared to the monochromatic profile. This has implications for ocean circulation since the Coriolis-Stokes force depends on the magnitude and direction of the Stokes drift profile and Langmuir turbulence depends sensitively on the shear of the profile. The proposed profile comes at no added numerical cost and relies on the same two parameters, viz the Stokes transport and the surface Stokes drift velocity.
PB - ECMWF
PY - 2013
EP - 16
T2 - ECMWF Technical Memoranda
TI - Approximate Stokes drift profiles in deep water
UR - https://www.ecmwf.int/node/8387
ER -