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FOR the component of steady flow at right angles to the pressure gradient on a rotating globe, the hydrodynamical equation may be written. where u is the velocity of flow, ∂p/∂y the pressure gradient, φ latitude, ρ density, ω the angular velocity of rotation of the earth, and F any extraneous forces apart from pressure, for example, that due to wind friction at the surface of the ocean. In a paper on the effect of wind on ocean currents1, I found empirically that the surface current due to wind flowed on the average at an angle of about 45° to the wind with a velocity that of the wind generating the current.
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DURST, C. Slope of the Ocean. Nature 163, 993–994 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163993b0
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