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On the Vanishing of the Interfacial Ekman Layer

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It is shown that an interfacial Ekman layer between two water masses of different density vanishes in time for all Prandtl number 0 < Pr < \infty , demonstrating that an interfacial Ekman layer is a transient phenomena and the interface broadens in a way approaching geostrophy. For Pr = 0, undamped inertial oscillations spread away from the interface, and the case Pr 5= \infty represents the classical Ekman layer.

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hal-00784752 , version 1 (04-02-2013)

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Achim Wirth. On the Vanishing of the Interfacial Ekman Layer. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2010, 41, pp.1035-40. ⟨10.1175/JPO-D-10-05002.1⟩. ⟨hal-00784752⟩

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