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Paduan et al. 1989
Paduan, J.D., de Szoeke, R.A. and Weller, R.A. (1989). Inertial oscillations in the upper ocean during the Mixed Layer Dynamics Experiment (MILDEX). Journal of Geophysical Research 94: doi: 10.1029/88JC03729. issn: 0148-0227.

Surface currents in the near-inertial frequency band were analyzed from 18-day-long measurements taken in October/November 1983 as part of the Mixed Layer Dynamics Experiment. The current below two drifting platforms separated by 55 km were found to have differed in their inertial response to a frontal passage on November 1 by 10 cm s-1. Wind records from the two platforms were used to compute the predicted inertial currents with a simple slab model of the wind-driven flow. The model currents reproduced most of the features of the observed inertial currents, including the disparity between the two locations following the November 1 frontal passage. The disparity was due to differences in the weak winds preceding the frontal passage which account for inertial currents of ~5 cm s-1 in opposing directions at the two platforms at the time of the front. These differences, or small-scale (~50 km) structure in the wind field, were responsible for the disparity rather than the slight difference in the arrival time (~2 hours) of the front at the two locations ¿ American Geophysical Union 1989

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Oceanography, Physical, Upper ocean processes, Oceanography, Physical, Air/sea interactions, Oceanography, Physical, Currents, Oceanography, Physical, Internal and inertial waves
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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