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Ekman Transport

Ekman transport is the net volume flux of water driven by wind stress balanced with Coriolis force in the surface boundary layer. Derived by Vagn Walfrid Ekman in 1905 from the principle that wind stress is transmitted through the water column in a spiral pattern, Ekman transport is responsible for coastal upwelling and important oceanographic transports. The theory links surface wind patterns directly to ocean circulation.

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Ekman Transport Calculation
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / oceanography
  • Ekman, V. W. (1905). On the influence of the Earth's rotation on ocean currents. Arkiv for Matematik, Astronomi och Fysik, 2(11), 1-52. · URL
  • Cushman-Roisin, B., & Beckers, J.-M. (2011). Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Physical and Numerical Aspects. Academic Press. · DOI 10.1016/b978-0-12-088759-0.00001-8
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