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Considered is a geometrical way of a computer-aid construction of a drift current spiral that can take into account an arbitrary change with depth of the viscosity coefficient introduced in tabular form or as formulas. A new model is simple and can be used in numerical experiment to clarify the impact of different stratification types and special dynamic conditions, for example, waves, on the character of a spiral. The model is not supposed to substitute other models, but can make their selection wider.
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Original Russian Text © D.E. Besedin, V.L. Lebedev, 2007, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2007, No. 3, pp. 86–92.
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Besedin, D.E., Lebedev, V.L. Geometrical finite-difference construction of a drift current spiral with arbitrary changing viscosity. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 32, 206–211 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373907030089
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