Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
Author Posting. © The Authors, 2005. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier B.V. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 52 (2005): 1218-1219, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2005.03.003.
Description:
This is our response to a comment by Walter Eifler on our paper `A simple model
for the short-time evolution of near-surface current and temperature profiles'
(arXiv:physics/0503186, accepted for publication in Deep-Sea Research II ). Although Eifler raises genuine issues regarding our model's validity and applicability,
we are nevertheless of the opinion that it is of value for the short-term evolution
of the upper-ocean profiles of current and temperature. The fact that the effective
eddy viscosity tends to infinity for infinite time under a steady wind stress may not
be surprising. It can be interpreted as a vertical shift of the eddy viscosity profile
and an increase in the size of the dominant turbulent eddies under the assumed
conditions of small stratification and infinite water depth.
Description:
The work was funded by Research Council of Norway projects 127872/720 and
155923/700.
Keywords:
Temperature
;
Current
;
Turbulence
;
Sea surface
;
Mathematical modelling
;
Profiling instrument
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
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Preprint
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