A systematic method of estimation of alongshore windstress and Ekman transport associated with coastal upwelling.

ABSTRACT: A standard method for estimating alongshore windstress (AWS) and related cross-shore Ekman transport (ET) is proposed. In the absence of standard methodologies for estimating coastal angles required for AWS estimation, an estimation is typically derived on a case-to-case basis, often approximating entire coastlines with a single line segment. A novel standard parametric method for estimating this coastal angle is developed in this manuscript consisting:•Computation of Coastal Angle from Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-resolution Shoreline (GSHHS) coastline data through line simplification•Estimation of Windstress components at coastal points from Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) wind data•Estimation of AWS and associated Ekman TransportThe method developed

SUBMITTER: Ray S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10148182 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature