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This chapter introduces the reader to one-dimensional water-column models using fixed vertical levels. Such a model is applied to study the dynamics of surface and bottom Ekman layers in the ocean.
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Kämpf, J. (2010). 1D Models of Ekman Layers. In: Advanced Ocean Modelling. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10610-1_2
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