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Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-93-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-93-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
Research article
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24 Jan 2023
Research article |  | 24 Jan 2023

Extension of Ekman (1905) wind-driven transport theory to the β plane

Nathan Paldor and Lazar Friedland

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Mean surface transport forced by wind blowing over an ocean can assume many directions relative to the wind direction and does not have to be perpendicular to the direction of the wind. This is in contrast to a simpler 120-year-old theory that completely ignored Earth's sphericity and predicted that the mean ocean current should always be perpendicular to the direction of the overlying wind. In the new theory the direction of the mean current is determined by the values of several parameters.
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