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Wind induced energy-momentum distribution along the Ekman-Stokes layer. Application to the Western Mediterranean Sea climate
Sayol, Juan Manuel
Orfila, Alejandro
Oey, Lie Yauw
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)
European Commission
Wind energy input
Western Mediterranean Sea
Stokes drift
Wind-wave interaction
Mass transport
Ekman-Stokes layer
Wind-wave interaction in the Western Mediterranean Sea is analyzed using 16 years of model data. The mass transport and energy distribution due to wind and waves are integrated through the Ekman-Stokes layer and then spatially and seasonally analyzed. The Stokes drift is estimated from an empirical parameterization accounting for local surface wind and the significant wave height. The impact of the Stokes drift depends on wind variability at the ocean surface and also on the geographical configuration of the basin. The Western Mediterranean Sea has on average a wind energy input two times higher in winter than in summer, and the Stokes-Ekman mass transport interaction term contributes approximately 10-15% of the total wind induced transport, but at some locations the contribution is as much as 40% or more.
J.M.S. is supported by the PhD CSIC-JAE program co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF). AO thanks support from the ENAP-Colombian Army. Financial support EU-H2020 Project Jerico-Next is greatly acknowledged
Peer Reviewed
2016-06-13T11:56:32Z
2016-06-13T11:56:32Z
2016-05-01
2016-06-13T11:56:32Z
artículo
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2016.01.004
issn: 0967-0637
Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 111: 34-49 (2016)
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/133381
10.1016/j.dsr.2016.01.004
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003339
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780
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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/654410
Postprint
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2016.01.004
Sí
open
Pergamon Press