The Models We Used to Observed Interactions Between Near-Inertial Waves and Mesoscale Eddies

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The authors use the PM model and the YBJ model to simulate the wind stress.
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The authors use the PM model and the YBJ model to simulate the wind stress. They use a domain that is 400 km×400 km in the horizontal and 4 km deep. The stratification and the wind forcing are taken to be horizontally uniform, capturing the forcing at a scale much larger than the mesoscale.