Nearer the surface, the zonal momentum equation is dominated by eastward pressure gradients near the equator and eastward Coriolis forces from a strong, northward Ekman flow poleward of 2掳N. In the vertical integral these forces roughly balance the surface wind stress; thus vertical stresses ...
1999). In a turbulent flow outside the viscous sublayer, the viscous stress \(\nu \frac{\partial \langle u \rangle }{\partial z}\) is negligible in comparison to the Reynolds stress throughout the water depth, and thus we expect a linear profile of \(\langle - u ^{\prime } w ...