Upwelling and Coastal Jets

This means that in a closed water body, up- and downwelling are forced by a wind blowing for longer than one inertial period in a direction at the coasts located perpendicular to the direction in which the wind is blowing. Up- and downwelling form at the 

The dynamics behind the Kelvin wave front changes completely. The divergence of the Ekman offshore transport is balanced by the divergence of the coastal jet in the surface layer and the divergence of the Ekman compensation current in the sub-thermocline layer is balanced by the longshore divergence of a coastal undercurrent flowing in opposite direction to the upper layer coastal jet. 

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