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Radiation of mixed layer near-inertial oscillations into the ocean interior
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Journal of Physical Oceanography
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June 1, 2001
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(Manuscript received 17 December 1999, in final form 28 August 2000)
ABSTRACT
The radiation from the mixed layer into the interior of the ocean of near-inertial oscillations in the presence of the beta effect is reconsidered as an initial-value problem. Making use of the fact that the mixed layer depth is much smaller than the total depth of the ocean, the solution is obtained in the limit of an ocean that is effectively infinitely deep, For a uniform initial condition, analytical results for the velocity, horizontal kinetic energy density, and fluxes are obtained.
This is the canonical solution for the radiation of near-inertial oscillations in the vertical, which captures the basic ...