How Currents Trigger Extreme Sea Waves. The Roles of Stokes Drift, Eulerian Return Flow, and a Background Flow in the Open Ocean

Abstract A deterministic system of ocean surface waves and flow in the oceanic boundary layer is key to understanding the dynamics of the upper ocean. For the description of such complex systems, a higher‐order shear‐current modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation is newly derived and then used to p...

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Main Authors: Yan Li, Amin Chabchoub
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2024-03-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107381
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