Near-inertial Pollard Waves Modeling the Arctic Halocline

We present an explicit exact solution to the governing equations describing the vertical structure of the Arctic Ocean region centered around the North Pole. The solution describes a stratified water column with three constant-density regions: a motionless bottom layer, a top layer with uniform velocity and a middle layer - the halocline - described by nonhydrostatic, nearinertial Pollard waves.