[1] The influence of nearshore wind stress curl on the relative partitioning of bottom boundary layer (BBL) and interior transport within an idealized, two-dimensional coastal upwelling system is studied theoretically and using a numerical model. A nearshore reduction in upwelling favorable wind stress amplitude (1) reduces the width of the inner shelf, (2) reduces the local wind-driven Ekman t...

The response of the Circumpolar Current to changing winds has been the subject of much debate. To date most theories of the current have tried to predict the transport using various forms of momentum balance. This paper argues that it is also important to consider thermodynamic as well as dynamic balances. Within largescale general circulation models, increasing eastward winds within the Southe...

The time-dependent wind-driven ocean circulation is investigated for both a rectangular and a North Atlantic– shaped basin. Multiple steady states in a 21⁄2-layer shallow-water model and their dependence on various parameters and other model properties were studied in Part I for the rectangular basin. As the wind stress on the rectangular basin is increased, each steady-state branch is destabil...

The role of intraseasonal variability in the tropics in exciting El Niño is investigated. The most important component is the zonal wind in the equatorial wave guide, 5◦S–5◦N, in the west and central Pacific, 130◦E–160◦W. This is correlated to the MJO, but there are components that are independent. We subtract the influence of ENSO on the indices of intraseasonal variability as well as from the...

Welded beam-to-column connections of high-rise steel structures are susceptive to fatigue damage under wind loading. However, most fatigue assessments in the field of civil engineering are mainly based on nominal stress or hot spot stress theories, which has the disadvantage of dependence on the meshing styles and massive curves selected. To address this problem, in this paper, the equivalent s...

The authors assess the role of time-dependent eddy variability in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) in influencing warming of the Southern Ocean. For this, an eddy-resolving quasigeostrophic model of the wind-driven circulation is used, and the response of circumpolar transport, eddy kinetic energy, and eddy heat transport to changes in winds is quantified. On interannual time scales, the...

The wind loads considerably influence lightweight spatial structures. An example of spatial structures is scallop domes that contain various configurations and forms and the wind impact on a scallop dome is more complex due to its additional curvature. In our work, the wind pressure coefficient (Cp ) on the scallop dome surface is studied numerically and experimentally. Firstly, the programming...

We study the response of the ocean thermocline in the Pacific to arbitrary periodic wind stress perturbations in the low-frequency limit. This approximation assumes that the characteristic period of the wind forcing is much longer than the propagation timescales of the first-order baroclinic waves involved in ocean adjustment. Starting from the reduced-gravity 11⁄2-layer model and building on t...

The questions of how wind and ocean waves interact and how this coupling should be parameterized to optimally derive the surface wind stress remain open and central to estimating air-sea coupling at the global and local scales. While much attention has been given to evaluating the effect of the wind-driven waves upon the surface wind stress and air-sea drag coefficient, less emphasis has been g...