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The interior motions in steady, layered, geostrophic models of large scale wind-driven phenomena are severely constrained if there is no stress transfer across the interfaces. In particular, there will be no motion in the subsurface layers except in regions where the layers rise to the surface and are exposed to the wind-stress or unless the layers are in contact with lateral boundary layers with which they exchange fluid. These results follow directly from quite general considerations that are outlined in this paper.
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Rooth, C., Stommel, H. & Veronis, G. On motions in steady, layered, geostrophic models. Journal of the Oceanographical Society of Japan 34, 265–267 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02111172
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